Blues vs. Rock and Roll “You can’t play the blues‚ until you’ve paid your dues” (Spencer 41)‚ said by the originator of the blues W.C. Handy. The blues is a music style that influenced America in many ways eventually coming to create rock and roll. The true originators of the blues go back to African slaves brought to America to work on plantations. As these slaves gained freedom and acceptance in the big cities blues developed its own unique style. This unique style gained popularity amongst the
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Early rock and roll music absorbed a lot of elements of African-American music‚ such as blues and jazz. These black popular music elements appeared frequently in early rock and roll songs‚ and were favored by white youth during 1950s. It is no doubt that Elvis Presley‚ who is often referred to as “the King of Rock and Roll”‚ is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century. Although Presley was a white man‚ he did not sing like other white singers before his time; Otherwise
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Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements and Effect on Rock and Roll The 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 the sixties and seventies. The origin of the blues can be traced to the emancipation of the slaves in the rural black areas of the
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The premise of this work is that rock ’n’ roll matters‚ and that it means what it says. It seems that rock ’n’ roll music has seldom been given its due as an art form‚ that it is somehow relegated to a category of less "mature" or "serious" artistic pursuits by the media and the intellectual community. Some critics use the generic term "Pop" to refer to any popular music‚ including all contemporary rock musicians‚ as if the fact of rock ’n’ roll’s immense commercial success implies that it cannot
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and 1970’s rock music took the nation by storm‚ again. With its new wave of music‚ evident in the more dynamic tempos and uplifting sound‚ rock and roll had a much more impactful message to spread than it had in the 1950’s. In the 1950’s the music was simply made for fun‚ whilst in the 60’s and 70’s‚ although the music was still fun‚ in was proving a much more specific criticism on racial disputes. There was a notable spilt in the industry between black rock and roll and white rock and roll. Many youth
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Emergence of Rock ’n ’ Roll Aside from the invention of Velcro‚ rock ’n ’ roll music is one of the few things introduced in the 1950s that is still common today. There were a number of great things introduced back then‚ but after 60 years things tend to get outmatched or forgotten. Rock ’n ’ roll is not one of those forgotten things. Rock ’n ’ roll is still one of the most popular genres of music in the 21st century‚ and a lot of sub-genres have split off from that. Rock ‘n’ roll is a term that
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lyrics that don’t mean anything. We Came as Romans is all about the lyrics and the spreading of a positive message‚ music comes second: this is one thing I really love about this band. This past year of my life has been really hard for me and when I started listening to We Came as Romans I was experiencing an extreme low. Friends helped me get through the hard times‚ but when they left for college and the military I was by myself and all I had was music. We Came as Romans helped me with their loving
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tend to convey a dark‚ suspenseful atmosphere. But if sitting back and enjoy the melody is not required for the moment‚ I can always enjoy the Rock ‘n’ Roll type. Rock ‘n’ Roll started during the 1960s and continues to grow well into today. Their tempos are almost always fast paced and the lyrics are Mesmerizing. I hold a special love to the classic Rock songs of the Vietnam War‚ stars such as Jimi Hendrix‚ Rolling Stones a and more. Their songs set the benchmarks for this type of music for years
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The Art of Rock and Roll by Charles Brown The book "The Art of Rock and Roll" by Charles T. Brown basically proposes methods for analyzing music and anyone who reads the books should be able to develop techniques for listening to music and making legitimate statements about it. It treats rock and roll as a serious art form and traces it cultural roots throughout the book. Chapter one discusses the elements of rock and makes four assumptions. Assumption one states that rock is a legitimate art
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Rock and Roll has influenced everyone’s life whether we like it or not. It is a style of music that has been around since the early 50’s‚ born out of a combination of Gospel‚ Blues‚ Jazz and Country music. In the early days‚ Rock and Roll was a new form of music that had a very simplistic sound which also introduced the electric guitar for the first time‚ combined with a drummer and bassist. Since then‚ it has been drastically changed and evolved into a multitude of different genres including
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