Bedroom pop: The antithesis of studio production

Throughout history, the arts have been a token of the wealth divide and something that remained inaccessible to the common man.

Music was a showcase of wealth, of influence and of power; it recognised and signified education and, more than anything, superiority.

Many factors worked in tandem to provide more and more people access to instruments and even musical education.

While music was claimed by more and more social demographics, the concept of music was perceived and experimented with differently, shifting the way it sounded, the way it was engaged with and the way it was distributed all in varied ways.

The birth of genres like soul, classical and jazz all as subsections of a greater world diversified the music scene and the amount of people who were listening to it, writes Music News Blitz’s Isaac James.