Anna Vilenskaya
The Evolution of Pop Music: From Urban Romance to K-Pop
Unlike its sister, rock music, pop music has been deprived of styles and substyles. It turns out that songs sung by Frank Sinatra, the group "Ruki Vverh," and the Korean group BTS - they all belong to the same genre.
Let's figure out what evolution popular music has gone through, what was popular pop music before XX century, who invented the formula K-pop, how hits differ from fillers, and we'll try to understand the evolution of world pop music.
Anna Vilenskaya, A musicologist, lecturer, and composer, she began her career as a lecturer while still a student at the conservatory. Her mission was to make music lectures accessible, simple, and lively—without excessive snobbery or academicism. And she succeeded!
С 2018 By 2022 Over the course of a year, Anna won the public's love by giving lectures first in bars in St. Petersburg, then in libraries and theaters throughout Russia.
Anna was included in the list 30 the most influential people in Russia who haven't yet 30-ti. She made her show with Warner Music Russia and read her author's cycles in philharmonic societies.
With the outbreak of full-scale war, Anna and her husband left for Tbilisi, and then moved to the United States.
Anna now lectures not in philharmonic halls, but in cozy theater halls, and also works at a school and teaches people around the world how to give lectures using her video course.
Anna's lecture is a solfeggio lesson using musical examples from various styles, which you can attend without any preparation and understand everything.
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes without intermission.