The Evolution of Rock Music
In this essay, I'm going to introduce to the reader a topic not touched a
lot because of its complexity and its avoidance by conservative adults.
This topic is, of course, Rock Music. During one week, I looked for
information in the library and at my house, and from the information I
gathered and my one knowledge about the topic, I'm going to lead the reader
to a better understanding of Rock n' Roll. I chose to do Rock music because
I can identify myself with it. Rock music is very complex. In fact "It's
stylistic scope is to broad to be encompassed by any single definition"
("Rock Music", Groliers, p.1). The nearest definition suggests a kind of
music that represents and speaks for the teenage society. This music is
characterized by using a heavy beat. In this essay, I'm going to divide
Rock music into four sections: Rock of the 50's, of the 60's, of the 70's
and of the 80's. Within these sections I'm also going to discuss several
sub-topics such as famous composers and groups, and characteristics of the
music.
The first section of this essay is Rock n' Roll of the 1950's, when Rock n'
Roll was born. It emerged from rhythm and blues, a music similar to jazz
played by blacks. This kind of music started to attract white teenagers.
Disc jockey Alan Freed was the one who introduced this music and later gave
it the name of Rock n' Roll. Record companies distributed records played by
whites but composed by blacks. Whites were frustrated because there weren't
any white artists and they didn't want the blacks to be the stars until
Bill Haley appeared with his "Rock Around the Clock". In this decade, Elvis
Presley introduced a music that was sexual suggestive and outraged dull
adults. In time he changed the style of the music by adopting a country and
western style and became a national hero. By the end of this decade and the
start of the next, Rock n' Roll started to decline because it was formula
ridden and it was too sentimental. Teenage audiences transferred their
allegiance to Folk music.
In 1963 the renewal of Rock n' Roll came when The Beatles started to play.
The Beatles, for some the best rock group ever, were from Liverpool,
England. Through the 60's, The Beatles dominated the record industries and
with their dominant instrumentation, which included: electric leads, rhythm,
and bass guitar, drums and sometimes an electric organ, changed the name of
Rock n' Roll to just Rock.
The new sound that internationalized rock and roll crossed an ocean from Britain to the United States and changed the course of musical history. The highlighted moment of history in which the British Invasion was initiated was during the arrival of The Beatles and their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show for three consecutive Sundays. Neither the arrival nor impact of British rock on the musical development of post-1950s...
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The book depicts the story of culture conflicts of the music, which arose from the introduction of the foot-tapping, hip-swaying music now known as rock n' roll (Graarrq). The outcome of rock n’ roll coincided with tremendous uproar in the movement to grant civil rights to African American. Trapped in the racial politics of the 1950s, rock n’ roll was credited with and criticized for promoting integration and economic opportunity for blacks while bringing to “mainstream” cloture black styles and values (Altschuler). Black values were looked over and kind of not important to whites. Whites were very much so well treated then blacks were, however no one spoke out until the outcome of rock n’ roll.
Rock n - roll In the 1950s rock-n-roll established its own mark in history. It spread throughout the decade in a thrilling, substantial, and even livid manner to those Americans trying to get rid of all sorts of conflicts and challenges that occurred during this time period. As exciting as this music was, the novel “All Shook Up” portrays how rock-n-roll brought many changes to the American culture and later to the sixties. It expresses many concerns such as race relations, moral decay, and communism, but in ways that are partially true.
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Aptly named the Rock & Roll Generation, the 1950's saw the birth and rise to prominence of rock-n-roll and rockabilly (an early style of rock-n-roll). However, this musical revolution would never have been possible without the invention of the electric guitar by Les Paul in 1952 (1). The solid-body electric guitar produced a distinct sound unlike any other instrument during that time; as a result, it was this unique sound that rock-n-roll music developed its entire foundation upon. Today, Les Paul’s guitar (now owned by the popular guitar company Gibson) remains one of the most famous electric guitars not just in the America, but also in the world, along with the Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster. With the advent of the electric guitar, Carl Perkins was a pioneer in the establishment of rock music, and his particular ...
I. First I will start by discussing the various genres that created rock music in the 50’s and 60’s.
Post World War II there was a new generation known as the “baby boom” generation. The arrival of this new generation called for new entertainment (Rock and Roll). Music of the 1960s was the new entertainment for the baby boom generation and impacted America by: starting new trends in genres of music, opening diversity of artists, counterculture movements, and music festivals.
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The rise of rock and roll into the limelight is to a large extent attributed to the teenagers of the 1950’s. Early rock music listened to by teenagers during the 1950’s was formed by blending together Rhythm and blues with country music. This kind of ...
Rock and Roll was the start of a new revolution in America. It introduced the world to many of the famous artists that continue to be a part of our lives today. "Artists who became popular in the 1950s such as Elvis, began to pave the way for others such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly" (The History of Rock 'n' Roll until 1960). With the introduction of rock 'n' roll, there came many new changes to the lives of many Americans. Rock and Roll was a major contributor for the change in teens' behavior in the 1950s because it encouraged new freedoms for teenagers, encouraged new fads among teenagers, and caused a generation gap.
Rock 'n' roll came from a type of music called rhythm and blues (R&B), which consisted of doo-wop and gospel music. It was popular mostly in the south during the 40’s but it soon grew to urban cities. It was Les Paul’s invention of the electric guitar in 1952 that added a new sound and made rhythm and blues into the rock 'n' roll we all know and love today. Most of the artists from R&B were African American, and in their song they would reference sexual matters. So together it gave a bad connotation towards the music and their race, therefore both were never fully accepted in the north. The term “rock” was slang mostly used by African Americans meaning a form of music that was easily danced to. Meanwhile “roll” was usually a euphemism for sex, such as “a roll in the hay”. It was Alan Freed who first popularized the term “rock and roll” for this gen...
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