Rock Music History

As a result cultural industries saw fit to move in and make profit from this reality by offering a form of escapism through music. Music mainly Rhythm and Blues was expressing the experiences of young teenagers. Teenagers no longer upheld the values and message that their parents and schools were promoting. This created conflict between the cultural industries who were promoting the pleasures of consumption with the traditional view of educational demands. This was seen to be the background formation and experience for rock n roll. It was due to the experiences of teenagers that Rock n roll formed. Rock n roll is due to Presley etc.

Rock ‘n’ Roll began and evolved around the late 1940’s and 1950’s time frame. There were many groups that participated in the creation and origin of Rock ‘n’ Roll, however the two primary groups were rhythm and blues and country music. “The origins of rock ‘n’ roll are often described in a way that could be represented by an algebraic formula: r&b + c&w = r&r” (Garofalo & Waksman, 2016, p. 56). While the formula is rather simplistic, it ignores the many groups of individuals, social and cultural influences that impacted the formation of Rock ‘n’ Roll. As Rolling Stone’s Robert Palmer (1990) noted:

Rock ‘n’ roll music has widely influenced music and society and continues to do so today. Rock ‘n’ roll emerged in the 1950’s a time where whites and blacks were heavily segregated. Rock and roll music not only changed the nation’s current musical norms, but indicated the joy of the emerging youth culture of the generation. It influenced artists whether black or white to come into the mainstream music. Famous artists still remembered today also influenced rock and roll. Those pioneers helped change the musical norms and the overall history of music. White rock ‘n’ rollers helped build a ladder for black artists to come into the scene. It was certain that rock ‘n’ roll made it possible for greater acceptance, appreciation and a wider

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n ' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States. The music we know as rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the mid 1950s, even though a form of it had been on the horizon for at least a decade or so. A quarter of the American population moved during World War II, and that is what brought southern, rural, sacred and secular traditions into contact with urban-based music and its audiences. Rock and roll drew on many different styles. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, which it developed from earlier blues, boogie-woogie, jazz and swing music. It was also influenced by gospel, country, western, and traditional folk music. With the combinations of all of these genres of music, that help to create this new style of music excited a worldwide generation of young listeners. Even though it had the attention of young listeners it started to upset the already established social, cultural and musical authorities. With this new music style coming into full affect along with new dances and people having voicing out their own opinion caused a lot of turmoil. Many people began to question this new genre of music and labeled it as the devil music while other loved it and couldn’t help but dance

Rock ‘n’ roll has played a major role in some known historical developments post World War 2. Music plays a significant part in America 's Cold War culture. Music gave us a sense of new technologies and helped the world to prosper. It also is linked with African Americans living in the South. Music was known for shaping the lives of the people during the 1950s and 1960s. Music was geared towards the youth, race, ethnicity, gender and class. “All Shook Up: How Rock ‘n’ Roll Changed America” by Altschuler, Glenn C, tells us the story of the birth of rock and roll during the concrete years of 1955 to 1965. Altschuler gives us a overview of how rock ‘n’ roll has an historical context. “ For two years the Times printed dozens of

“Rock n Roll was everything the suburban 1950’s were not. While parents of the decade were listening to Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and the Big Bands. Their children were moving on to a new beat.” (U.S. History) Teenagers started to like this new type of music called rock and roll. It became very popular and artists started to experiment with it which influenced the development of rock n roll throughout the 50’s and 60’s. The experimentation with rock n roll changed music forever and greatly influenced our music today. Rock n roll was mixed with country, rhythm, and blues when this combination happened rock n roll kept developing through the fifties and sixties.

As one of the most popular music genres, rock music has grown and expanded to incorporate many styles throughout the years. A rock band usually consists of a vocalist, an acoustic drum kit played with a strong beat, usually a back beat, and features electric and acoustic guitars. From its beginnings in the late 1950s and early 1960s until the present day, rock has changed styles seemingly every decade as new bands become popular because of their unique style of music. Throughout the years rock has influenced our culture and helped shape the world we live in today.

Throughout the many genres that exist in the world, there are always genres that have significant differences from each other. Although they may both stem from another genre, or one might be a derivative of the other, there is always more than one noteworthy characteristic of each genre that sets them completely apart from one another. Although rock’n’roll and jazz music were not genres that were discussed formally in class or in any assignments, they are each forms of music that thoroughly defined either a time period or a culture of a certain region. Rock and roll and jazz are two contrasting genres with slightly similarities between them. They have both been inspired by older and more prominent genres like blues and have also evolved later genres from different regions of the world such as pop music and reggae music. Also, jazz incorporates rock and roll in its music today. Rock and roll and jazz are analyzed singly and descriptively based on aural analyses of live performances that took place around the city of New York. Both of these genres stem may from the same genre, possibly an African genre, because of the history of each of them have, the instruments incorporated, and the general music characteristics of the music.

In the year 1949, The White Australia policy took place. In 1950 white people and African Americans where in close proximity with each other as the African Americans moved the urban cities for jobs. As the two races became closer to each other they shared their music and over a period of time their music overlapped. This overlap became the birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Rock ‘n’ Roll was the combination of Rhythm and Blues.

“Rock and roll is a type of popular dance music originating in the 1950s, characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies. Rock and roll was an amalgam of black rhythm and blues and white country music, usually based on a twelve-bar structure and an instrumentation of guitar, bass, and drums.” (Kamien, 2015, p.378) The popular music was first called rock and then rock and roll then back to simply rock. Rock and roll music contains many diverse styles. Genres that influenced rock and roll music included jazz, gospel, blues, country and western, classical music, and folk music. Rock and roll music has a raw sound that gets the crowd hyped in a special way. The most important instrument used in rock and roll music is the electric guitar. The electric guitar is the reason for the amplified sound in rock and roll music. “Rock-and-roll guitarist Chuck Berry established a style of

Music has been around for ages, it has defined events, countries, and generations. According to the British Broadcasting Channel, the first musical instruments appeared about 40,000 years ago. Caveman music has not defined so many lives, but Rock and Roll has. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the term as “Rock Music”. Urban Dictionary gives a clearer definition, “Gods gift to man on the 8th day”. Rock and Roll is a genre of music which usually incorporates electric guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. Rock and Roll, also known as Rock ‘n Roll or Rock, is known for being catchy and simple. At the time of its birth, in the mid 1950s, Rock ‘n Roll was a brand new sound that differed from jazz, classical, and blues music. Since then, Rock music has evolved in an unpredictable way which has created countless subgenres of Rock. With its evolution, Rock has past its prime. No longer are the musicians of Rock, or Rock Stars, considered the idols they are. Since the takeover of Pop music, defined in the Urban Dictionary as, “Probably the worst, most degrading music

Rock ‘n’ roll, an era in which started the expansion of music to what we now know today. Music is such an important part of the world that we live in. Music is everywhere, on TV and radio, in the stores in our car. We use music within our educational systems and also used for therapies dealing with disorders. But where did Rock and Roll come from and what is the story of how it began?

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The invention of rock music has not only created many new genres of music, but it has had a large impact on; Race, Religion, Fashion, Drugs, and many social causes, changing the way we think, and how we view new ideas. Rock isn’t just music, it’s a movement, a culture, a new lifestyle, and an ideology. Rock music gave people a new way to express themselves, giving them a powerful voice, a voice that can influence millions, a voice that isn’t afraid to speak out about political issues, one that isn’t afraid to go against the crowd, to stand up and try new things, breaking the mold of society, and creating their own. In a short time since it was created, rock music has influenced the American people faster than any other social developments could have. Rock had tightly woven together a country, unified it when it was falling apart, it had torn down the walls of segregation, it had

Rock and roll is a music genre that emerged in the United States in the early fifties. And is formed from the Blues. The name is created by an American dj named Alan Freed when he wanted to announced a song: ‘My Baby Rocks Me with one Steady Roll’ , and called this new music genre Rock and Roll. Some aspects of the Rock and Roll are the chord diagrams of eight notes, the afterbeat and the instruments that are used. This instruments are the elec-tric guitar, the piano, the contra bass and the drums. The Rock and Roll period ended in America in 1969.