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Rock History Essays and Term Papers
Who is the Father of Rock n' RollWho is the Father of Rock n' Roll
Most historians trace the beginning rock back to the year 1950's, when a new type of music was discovered named, Rock n' Roll appeared it transformed musical tastes, at least among young people; it pretty much changed the world. This new music, of course did not ...
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Allegory Of American Pie By DoAsk anyone what was the defining moment in the rock history of the 1960s was and all you will get is a one word answer: Woodstock. The three day rock festival that defined an era was only one of many music festivals of the ‘60s. But Woodstock has come to symbolize, "an era of peaceful, free- ...
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History Of The CountercultureThe 1950's in America were considered a true awakening of youth culture. If this is true then the 1960's was a decade of discovery. It was a decade marred by social unrest, civil rights injustice, and violence abroad. These were some of the factors that lead to a revolution that attempted to ...
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Frank SinatraI have decided to do a report on Frank Sinatra. It has to do with how an artist or genre has affected rock and roll. If I don’t I don’t like them I have to state why and give facts to why I don’t, but I have to recognize them as in influence to rock and roll. I will do this in the pages ...
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Rap And Rock ‘n’ Roll“History will repeat itself.” Many people believe that this quote is true, but for me, I think it is only partially correct. Wars will happen like in the past but now the wars will be different. We have more firepower now. The wars will end more quickly but with more structural and death. In ...
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Rock MusicRock is a topic not often touched because of its complexity and its avoidance by conservative adults. Often viewed by them as “a bunch of noise”, is actually very complex. In fact, "It's stylistic scope is to broad to be encompassed by any single definition" ("", Groliers, p.1). This music is ...
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Jimi Hendrix: A Reflection Of A Man Through His MusicJimi Hendrix, the greatest guitarist in rock history, revolutionized the sound of rock. In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience rocked the nation with their first album, Are You Experienced?. Hendrix's life was cut short by the tragedy of drugs in 1970, when he was only twenty seven years old. In ...
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How The Beatles Changed Rock MusicRock music consists of many individual styles. Even though there is a
common spirit among all music groups, all music made by them are very different.
Rock music evolved in the 1950s and the early 1960s. At that time that Beatles
entered the world of music from Liverpool. Rock music was a ...
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Rock MusicRock is a topic not often touched because of its complexity and its avoidance by conservative adults. Often viewed by them as “a bunch of noise”, is actually very complex. In fact, "It's stylistic scope is to broad to be encompassed by any single definition" ("", Groliers, p.1). This music is ...
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Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements And Effect On Rock And RollThe blues are undeniably the roots of early rock and roll. Rock today
has mutated so much that the basic blues patterns have been all but lost.
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the birth of, and evolution of rock
and roll by focusing on three of the arguably greatest rock musicians of ...
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History Of Rock And RollINTRODUCTION
Rock and Roll started after the year 1955 with its roots being in Blues,
Gospel, and Jazz. This influenced vocal music, which was popular with the
African American population. Hep Harmony which added rhythm and harmony was
sung by groups such as The "Mills Brothers" and the "Ink ...
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History Of Rock And RollIn the early 50's, at the end of the big band swing era, came a
form of music that, like others, parents would reject and their children
would love. This type of music is known as Rock and Roll.
Rock and Roll is defined as a popular type of music played on
electric instruments and characterized ...
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History Of RapRap Music, a genre of R&B that includes rhythmic poetry put over a musical background. The background consists of beats combined with digitally isolated sound bites from other recordings. The first recording of rap was made in 1979 and the genre began to take notice in the U.S. in the mid-1980s. ...
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A History Of The BeatlesProbably the most popular, influential and enduring rock
group of all time, the Beatles almost single-handedly reshaped
rock 'n' roll from a genre of throwaway singles by faceless stars to
an artistic medium with memorable images and idols. The Beatles
placed the emphasis on a group, rather than a ...
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Rock And Roll 2In this present day in age, people often wonder how our great country came about. They ask themselves whom or what influenced this nation. What happened during the harsh years of those trials and tribulations? The American nation has gone through some pretty big changes. In recent research, ...
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Rock And Roll“America. betaking herself to formative action(as it is about time for more solid achievement, and less windy promise), must , for her purpose, cease to recognize a theory of character grown of feudal aristocracies, or form’d by merely literary standards, or from any ultramarine, full-dress ...
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Elvis: King of Rock N' Roll?Alvonte' Jiggetts
10 January 2012
English 11
Ms. Padden
Is Elvis Really The King of Rock n' Roll?
Before I start my argument on this topic, I would like to say that I think Elvis is a great artist, actor, and an incredible entertainer but why he really as great as people perceive him to ...
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History Of Punk RockDid you know that the first commercially successful punk band
was the Sex Pistols? Then came groups like Black Flag, Husker Du,
and Bad Brains. Punk was invented in Britain in the mid Seventies.
The first American punk started in a New York club called CBGB's.
CBGB's would attract a crowd of ...
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Jimi Hendrix, the greatest guitarist in rock history, revolutionized
the sound of rock. In 1967, the Experience rocked the nation
with their first album, Are You Experienced?. Hendrix's life was cut short
by the tragedy of drugs in 1970, when he was only twenty seven years old.
In these three years the sound ...
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A Brief History Of The BluesJoseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. (p. 578) In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. (Although ...
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