Crossover music#Jazz crossover

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Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers who appeal to different types of audiences. This can be seen, for example, when a song appears on two or more of the record charts, which track differing musical styles or genres.Lonergan, Hit Records, 1950–1975, p. vi: "These [Country & Western and Rhythm & Blues], and the somewhat newer Adult Contemporary charts, occasionally exhibited what are called 'crossover' hits, when a Pop, C&W, or R&B star would have a hit that also charted on one or more of the other lists.

In some contexts, the term "crossover" can have negative connotations associated with cultural appropriation, implying the dilution of a music's distinctive qualities to appeal to mass tastes. For example, in the early years of rock and roll, many songs originally recorded by African-American musicians were re-recorded by white artists such as Pat Boone in a more toned-down style, often with changed lyrics, that lacked the hard edge of the original versions. These covers were popular with a much broader audience.{{sfn |Gilliland |1969 |loc=show 4, track 5; show 6, track 4}}

Crossover frequently results from the appearance of the music in a film soundtrack. For instance, Sacred Harp music experienced a spurt of crossover popularity as a result of its appearance in the 2003 film Cold Mountain, and bluegrass music experienced a revival due to the reception of 2000's O Brother, Where Art Thou?.

Classical crossover

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Classical crossover broadly encompasses both classical music that has become popularized and a wide variety of popular music forms performed in a classical manner or by classical artists. It can also refer to collaborations between classical and popular performers, as well as music that blends elements of classical music (including operatic and symphonic) with popular music (including pop, rock, middle of the road, and Latin, among other types). Pop vocalists and musicians, opera singers, classical instrumentalists, and occasionally rock groups primarily perform classical crossover. Although the phenomenon has long been widespread in the music industry, record companies first used the term "classical crossover" in the 1980s.{{cite web|url=http://es.artdancemovies.com/music/music-genres/1008035810.html |title=Música Classical Crossover|website=artdancemovies.com |date=24 August 2015 |language=es |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925105512/http://es.artdancemovies.com/music/music-genres/1008035810.html |archive-date=25 September 2015}} It has gained in popularity since the 1990s and has acquired its own Billboard chart.

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A means of generating vast popularity for the classics has been through their use as inspirational anthems in sports settings. The aria "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's Turandot, especially Luciano Pavarotti's version, has become indissolubly linked with soccer.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1562471/Nessun-Dorma-put-football-back-on-map.html "Nessun Dorma put football back on map"], The Telegraph, 7 September 2007 (accessed 24 September 2015).

=Classical performers=

Within the classical recording industry, the term "crossover" is applied particularly to classical artists' recordings of popular repertoire such as Broadway show tunes. Two examples of this are Lesley Garrett's excursions into musical comedy and José Carreras's recording West Side Story, as well as Teresa Stratas' recording Showboat. Soprano Eileen Farrell is generally considered to be one of the first classical singers to have a successful crossover recording with her 1960 album I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/25/arts/eileen-farrell-soprano-with-a-populist-bent-dies-at-82.html|date=25 March 2002|work=The New York Times|first=Anthony|last=Tommasini|author-link=Anthony Tommasini|title=Eileen Farrell, Soprano With a Populist Bent, Dies at 82}}

The first Three Tenors concert in 1990 was a landmark in which Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras and Plácido Domingo brought a combination of opera, Neapolitan folksong, musical theatre and pop to a vast television audience. This laid the foundations for the modern flourishing of classical crossover.{{cite book|last1=Fryer|first1=Paul|title=Opera in the Media Age: Essays on Art, Technology and Popular Culture|date=2014|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers|location=Jefferson|isbn=978-1476616209|page=128|quote=[O]pera-pop crossovers as a phenomenon truly took off in the 1990s, from the Three Tenors concert onwards.}}

Collaborations between classical and popular performers have included Sting and Edin Karamazov's album Songs from the Labyrinth. A collaboration between Freddie Mercury and soprano Montserrat Caballé resulted in the worldwide hit "Barcelona". R&B singer Mariah Carey performed a live duet with her mother Patricia, who is an opera singer, of the Christmas song "O Come, All Ye Faithful". Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins performed a duet with rock singer Michael Bolton of O Holy Night. Singers and instrumentalists from the classical tradition, Andreas Dorschel has argued, run the risk of losing the sophistication of the genre(s) they were trained in, when they try to perform rock music, without coming up to the often rough and wild qualities of the latter.Andreas Dorschel, 'Entgrenzung der klassischen Musik?', grazkunst 04.2017, pp. 24−25.

Italian pop tenor Andrea Bocelli, who is the biggest-selling singer in the history of classical music,{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/25/1046064026608.html |title=Operation Bocelli: the making of a superstar |date=26 February 2003 |work=The Age |location=Melbourne }}{{cite web|url=http://www.timeoutdubai.com/art/features/6754-andrea-bocelli-in-abu-dhabi |title= Andrea Bocelli in Abu Dhabi |date= 2 March 2009 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2009/11/07/review-classical-music-star-andrea-bocelli-at-liverpool-arena-92534-25114619 |title=REVIEW: Classical music star Andrea Bocelli at Liverpool arena |date=7 November 2009 |work=Liverpool Daily Post }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allgigs.co.uk/view/article/2263/Andrea_Bocelli_Announces_November_2010_UK_Arena_Dates.html|title=Andrea Bocelli Announces November 2010 UK Arena Dates|website=Allgigs}} has been described as the king of classical crossover.{{cite news | title = The king of Operatic pop |work=The Sydney Morning Herald| date = 28 August 2004 | url = http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/27/1093518069667.html | access-date = 19 January 2008}}[https://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=97289203&m=97327740 Domingo And Bocelli: Keeping Opera Relevant], National Public Radio radio interview, 21 November 2008. British soprano Sarah Brightman is also considered a crossover classical artist,{{cite web |url=http://www.sarahbrightmantickets.org/sarah-brightman-info |title=Sarah Brightman |publisher=Sarah Brightman Tickets |date=14 August 1960 |access-date=25 June 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129042216/http://www.sarahbrightmantickets.org/sarah-brightman-info |archive-date=29 November 2010}} having released albums of classical, folk, pop and musical-theatre music. Brightman dislikes the classical crossover label, though she has said she understands the need to categorize music.{{cite web|url=http://www.123allcelebs.com/biography_of_sarah_brightman-718_eng.html |title=Sarah Brightman fan site |publisher=123allcelebs.com |access-date=25 June 2010 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107020417/http://www.123allcelebs.com/biography_of_sarah_brightman-718_eng.html |archive-date=7 January 2010 }} In the 2008 Polish release of her Symphony album she sings "I Will Be with You (Where the Lost Ones Go)" with Polish tenor Andrzej Lampert, another artist who has performed in both classical and non-classical styles, as well as having actually obtained full musical training and academic degrees in both (though operatic singing is his main professional focus{{cite web|url=http://culture.pl/en/article/polish-tenor-impresses-salzburg |title= Polish Tenor Impresses Salzburg |date=13 September 2013|access-date=3 January 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.beethoven.org.pl/en/festiwalewielkanocne/xviiiwielkanocnyfestiwallvb/artists/andrzejlampert|title=Andrzej Lampert, XVIII Ludwik van Beethoven Easter Festival|access-date=3 January 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106234800/http://www.beethoven.org.pl/en/festiwalewielkanocne/xviiiwielkanocnyfestiwallvb/artists/andrzejlampert|archive-date=6 January 2016}}).{{cite web|url=http://operabase.com/a/Andrzej_Lampert/21124 |title=Andrzej Lampert, tenor: Schedule |access-date=3 January 2016}}

References

Bibliography

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Lonergan, David F. Hit Records, 1950–1975. Scarecrow Press, 2004. {{ISBN|0-8108-5129-6}}

External links

[http://www.classical-crossover.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=142&Itemid=126 Article on the definition of Classical Crossover]