What was it like in the 70’s? How did it develop; and into what?
In the 70’s, people listened to many different kinds of music. There was mostly soft rock, and the pumping beat of disco music, but later in
A few years after World War 2, the music genre Rock N’ Roll was created. It originated from Rhythm and Blues and Country. In the early 1950’s there was three musicians that joined the world of Rock N’ Roll. Their names were Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley. They each had their own style of Rock N’ Roll. But some individuals couldn’t decide who the true king of Rock N’ Roll was. In my opinion, Elvis Presley was the true king of Rock N’ Roll because, of his crazy dance moves, how he broke the social barrier between the black folk and the white folk, and today’s generation knows who Elvis Presley was.…
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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.…
June 1945 The United Nations is created in San Francisco. Canada is one of the…
In the 1950’s, Rock and Roll took over the airwaves for a multitude of reasons. The youth of the generation was one of the largest groups of youth due to the Baby Boom after World War I, they were avid listeners to the radio, and could afford to purchase music due to the prosperity of the period. The sounds of Rock and Roll were a culmination of black rhythm and blues joined with white popular music, country and western, as well as, jazz (Dominick, 2013). One of the most famous singers of the time was Elvis Presley, who went on to sell over 1 billion records globally (Elvis Biography).…
During the 1960’s, one of the most thing that the American government and the American people had to face was the Cold War. People who grew up during the 1950’s, 60’s, and 70’s would have talked about the war like it was an everyday thing. But, as the years and decades have gone by people have might have a different option and some might not even know or remember what it was. Interviewing 3 people will show what the average citizen knows or remembers about the Cold War.…
Music during World War II The music during World War II was one of the most well-known and popular music eras of all times. Following the Great Depression, the 1930’s era called the “swing era” (Young & Young, 2008), was full of big bands, large dance halls and jitterbug-like beats that kept people on the dance floor. But little did America know that by the early 1940’s, their musical interests and tastes were soon going to change from upbeat tunes, to songs about war and love anthems. This change was brought by the war that Americans wanted to stay isolated from.…
Music has been a way for artists and listeners to spread their message, values, and beliefs through song. Progressive Rock had more influence on its listeners in American society in the late 1960’s than music prior to this time. Rock and Roll in the 1950’s and early 1960’s was more about the sound of the music and having fun. The emergence of progressive rock changed all of that. Progressive rock was more serious with a message and meaning in its songs and lyrics. The late 1960’s was a difficult and progressive time in American society and progressive rock had a major influence on the values and beliefs of the younger generation.…
Some people took their racial and gender preferences out on the music, and the performers. But some looked beyond that. Some looked more into the lyrics, and the tone of the songs. The songs helped betray a vast number of people’s emotions and feelings. People may have been unsure of how to think or react to what was happening in the 1960s, but music helped distinct their feelings. Some songs even helped bring more awareness to what was really happening in America. Music in the 1960s helped people relax, and enjoy themselves in the chaotic times, but it also helped some people protest against what was going on. Music greatly influenced the 1960s decade, and is still to this day remembered for all the deep and meaningful songs and artists in that…
“Music washes away the dust of everyday life.”- Art Blakey. Being around music develops an appreciation for many genres of music. Although our country was in the midst of WWII, the culture of music in America was thriving. The music of the 1930’s included popular genres such as Big Band and Jazz, Swing, and Country.…
Disco is one musical genre that developed in the 1970s. The characteristics of this music is mixing "soaring" vocals with a beat that encouraged dancing, disco became the dance music of the decade. The music often had 100 to 130 beats per minute (a relatively fast tempo) and the pulse of the rhythm was often emphasized.…
Music of the sixties would not exist without the rock and roll movement of the fifties. In the fifties rock and roll became the most predominant and popular…
General The 50’s was the decade that gave us the still well known and well loved music genre of Rock’n’Roll. Other than Rock’n’Roll country music, traditional pop, and rhythm and blues were the main genres of the 50’s.…
This was a time of change in music and even lifestyle. The rise of rock and roll developed through this time. Who would not want to live during this era. As the late fifties gave way to the early sixties, the famous rock stars such as The Everlys, Elvis, Roy Orbison, were still making historical hits, but the older music stars were losing popularity as they struggled to find musical material that would connect with this new and energetic generation of kids. Rock music became controlled by new young groups, taking their power from a combination of the performer's charisma along with the songwriting talents of the production team, who worked behind the scenes( "A BRIEF HISTORY OF POP AND ROCK MUSIC IN THE 1960'S."). The music we have today can be reflected off the music during this time. The music during WWII was old and boring, but the sixties gave rise to rock and roll which became very popular for a few decades. You cannot even deny that The Beatles are a bad band, do you wish you grew up with…
Psychedelic rock is absolutely still rock ‘n’ roll because it encompasses the free-spirited ideals of early rock greats. While under the influence of psychedelic drugs, artists felt as if they had entered a higher sphere of awareness. Here, they felt free to break out of molds and precedents which is what rock ‘n’ roll was really all about. Artists also experimented with new recording techniques and effects, and incorporated non-Western sources such as the instruments of Indian music. A few things that made it different from earlier rock music had to be its strong keyboard presence, especially organs, harpsichords, or the Mellotron, extended instrumental solos or jams, and its complex song structures. About.com gives San Francisco most of the…