Music of Florida
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| Institutions | |
| Concert Association of Florida - Florida Grand Opera - Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra - Raymond F. Kraviz Center - Rhythm Foundation - Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center | |
| Organizations | |
| Arts Council of Northwest Florida - Chopin Foundation | |
| Venues | |
| Quincy Music Theatre - Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall - Sound Advice Ampitheater | |
| Festivals | |
| Calle Ocho Festival - Carnaval Miami - Miami Reggae Festival - Winter Music Conference - Sunfest | |
| State song | "Florida" - "Florida, My Florida" - "Old Folks at Home" |
| Other topics | Music of Fort Lauderdale - Music of Miami - Music of Sarasota |
Florida's ethnic diversity has led to a myriad of musical styles from punk rock to salsa and heavy metal being popular in various parts of the state.
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[edit] Early recording industry
The Miami recording industry did not begin until the 1970s, beginning with Criteria Studios, which is where such noteworthy recordings as Rumours by Fleetwood Mac and Hotel California by The Eagles were made. Long-time local music entrepreneur Henry Stone and his label, TK Records, created the local indie scene in the 1970s. T. K. Records produced the R&B group KC and the Sunshine Band along with soul singers Betty Wright, George McCrae and Jimmy "Bo" Horne as well as a number of minor soul and disco hits, many influenced by Caribbean music. In the 1970s and early 1980s Jacksonville saw a very active music recording scene with Southern rock bands such as Molly Hatchet, The Allman Brothers Band, 38 Special, The Outlaws, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. The Bellamy Brothers also recorded their style of country music in the mid to late 1970s. They originated from Darby, Florida, just north of Tampa in Pasco County.
[edit] Rock
Tom Petty was born and raised in Gainesville, his 1977 single "American Girl" was rumored to be based on a true story about a girl who committed suicide by jumping off of one of the Beatty Towers dormitories at the University of Florida. However, it is simply an urban legend.
In the 1990s, the rock scene was centered in and around Miami Beach, at venues such as Washington Square, The Stephen Talkhouse, Roses, Blue Steel, the Cactus Cantina. Popular bands/acts included I Don't Know, Natural Causes, Sabatella, Diane Ward Band, Rat Bastard/To Live and Shave in LA, Mary Karlzen, Brian Franklin, Paul Roub, Forget the Name, Zac, The Holy Terrors, the Goods, Humbert, and Nil Lara.
In the mid 1990s, post grunge had a following in Florida, especially the Orlando area. Bands like Matchbox Twenty[1] and Creed made their start and others such as Seven Mary Three[2] relocated to Florida to increase their fan base.
The Gainesville area also produced some rock groups in the 1990s such as Sister Hazel and For Squirrels.
Tampa was a hotbed of alternative, ska, electronic, and hardcore talent with such bands as Edison Shine, Magadog, MultiColor House, Flux, Miss America, Gog and The Immediates.
Many Tampa area projects later grew into other now well known collectives and projects such as when Julian Koster, founding member of Miss America and Chocolate USA, joined up with the Elephant 6 collective Neutral Milk Hotel or when Gerald Hammil, one of the founders of The Way Cool,Totally Hip, Semi-Quasi Annual Alternative Festand member of Edison Shine, ICU and Catherine Wheel moved to NYC and formed the successful group The Burnside Project with Richard Janovich. Tampa in the 90's cannot forget when Gog disbanded and Bunny went on to help form Rabbit on the Moon, a well known electronica group that has transcended genres with some of its more eclectic remixes.
[edit] Latin pop
There are many Latinos in Florida, and an especially high number of Cubans in cities like Miami. The regional Latin music industry includes a wide variety of traditional and popular Cuban styles, as well as other Latin music genres. The Cuban community has produced traditional performers like Cachao and Israel Kantor, as well as mainstream pop stars like Gloria Estefan. Estefan is the most famous salsa musician to come from the Miami pop industry; others include Willie Chirino and Albita Rodríguez.[3]
[edit] Miami bass
Main article: Miami bass
Miami bass is a kind of booming, bass-heavy hip hop music that developed in the mid-1980s in Miami. Innovators on the scene included Maggotron, while the scene's eventual popularizer was Luther Campbell's 2 Live Crew. The lyrics to Miami bass were sexually explicit, and when 2 Live Crew began to achieve national attention, the words to their songs caused a controversy after several stores were prosecuted under obscenity laws for selling the disc, and members of 2 Live Crew were arrested for performing songs from the album Nasty As They Wanna Be.[3]
[edit] Florida breaks
Main article: Florida breaks
[edit] Punk rock
Florida has long been notorious for repression of youth culture, and punk rock was no exception. Centered out of Gainesville, Tampa and other cities, hardcore punk gained a widespread following. The first band is believed to be Roach Motel of Gainesville. Rat Cafeteria (Tampa), Sector 4, Hated Youth (both of Tallahassee), Morbid Opera (Miami) and Crucial Truth (Pompano Beach) also gained an audience. The SlutBoys and The Implications were two early Tallahassee bands from 1980/81. Some blame the death of Florida hardcore on an influx of hard-right Cuban skinheads. [4]
The mid/late 1980's had a new wave of Hardcore/Punk bands: The Roidz, The Chosen, & The Believers from West Palm Beach, Awake from Tampa, Beyond Reason, Powerhouse,(both from Miami), People's Court, Raging Pus Bags, The Doldrums from Gainsville, Altered Grey & Deal With It from Palm Beach Gardens, No Fraud from Venice Florida, Slap of Reality, Gasoline, & Chokehold from Melbourne Florida.
The new wave of pop punk, emo, and screamo is heavily influenced by Florida bands, especially from South Florida. New Found Glory, a Coral Springs band, is a major player in the popular punk of the late 1990s and the 2000s. The emoviolence scene was also quite popular in years past in Florida, spawning such bands as Palatka.
Usually associated with what has become known as nü-emo is Chris Carrabba and his band, Dashboard Confessional from Boca Raton. Dashboard Confessional helped make emo music popular in the early 2000s. His former band, Further Seems Forever, is also a popular indie rock band from Pompano Beach.
Gainesville (as noted above) and Jacksonville were very popular punk in the late 1990s. Less Than Jake, Against Me! and Hot Water Music are from Gainesville, while Yellowcard and Evergreen Terrace are from Jacksonville.
Other Punk/Hardcore/Metal bands from Florida include: the Crumbs, November Charlie, Against All Authority, Anberlin, Underoath, Poison the Well, and I Have Dreams. Shai Hulud, The Roidz, The Believers, The Chosen, PUI, FOS, LOAD, Amboogalard, Death Turd, Altered Grey, Mad Exploding Flowers, Faceplant, Deal With It, People's Court, Machine, Timescape Zero, Awake, Beyond Reason, Powerhouse, Ego Trip, Hangman, Bloodlet, Solid Answer, Culture, Burgundy Romance, Roosevelt, Murrychestones, Endure, Grasspatch, Death, Obituary, Morbid Opera, Spoke, Raging Pus Bags, The Doldrums, Hellwitch, Compton Static, Weakling, Hot Water Music, Morning Again, Drop, Milky Filth, Chokehold, False Crisis, Lobotomy, etc.
[edit] Independent Rock
Indie bands Iron & Wine and Copeland are from Florida. In addition to the nationally recognized talent this area has produced, an indie/americana scene is also popular in and around the Central Florida area. Another Indie Florida band was The Generators from Orlando, active from 1985 - 1992. The Generators were included on Breakout USA a Best Unsigned Band C.D. issues by the Westwood Radio Network in 1990. The Generators went on to work with Chris Wardman (producer) and Swell Entertainment of Canada. They recorded and released one album for Capitol/EMI Canada titled "Now Available in Paperback". In the Tampa Bay area, a short-lived three-man indie band named 23 Complaints had some moderate attention with a single from their C.D. "Until Time Runs Out," which was released on Reindeer Records in 2003.
[edit] Death metal
The metal scene in Florida, especially Tampa, started in the mid-80's and is still thriving today.
Tampa has produced death metal artists such as cannibal corpse the legendary innovators of the genre Death and Morbid Angel; as well as seminal acts like Deicide, Obituary, Hate Eternal, Monstrosity, Nocturnus, Hellwitch and Acheron.
Tampa is also home to the infamous Morrisound Studios. Records such as Deicide's debut album, Deicide; Morbid Angel's debut album Altars of Madness, Scream Bloody Gore from Death, as well as many other classic death metal albums.
Ft. Lauderdale has produced a few metal bands as well, such as Into the Moat, Malevolent Creation, Divine Empire, Hellwitch, Hateplow, Kult ov Azazel, and Hibernus Mortis.
[edit] "Boy Bands"
The 1990s saw an increase in the popularity of "Boy Bands". Three such bands came out of the Orlando area: N Sync, O Town and Backstreet Boys.
[edit] Hip hop
[edit] References
- ^ Matchbox Twenty, originally named Matchbox 20, became active in 1996.
- ^ Seven Mary Three relocated from Williamsburg, Virginia in 1994.
- ^ a b Unterberger, Richie (1999). Music USA: The Rough Guide. The Rough Guides. ISBN 1-85828-421-X.
- ^ Blush, Steven (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Feral House. ISBN 0-92291-571-7.
