Sex‚ Drugs‚ and Rock and Roll Rock and Roll is a genre of music that is known for its earsplitting music and people of the partying atmosphere. During the 1950’s and 1960’s these partying people were better known as "hippies‚" easy going‚ laid back‚ just here to have a good time. Thinking back to 1951‚ Alan Freed discovered Rock and Roll; Freed was a disc jockey that obviously loved music. Nowadays we look at rock and roll as a past era that dominated the musical world at one time. Families
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In a fit of patriotic zeal‚ American folk musician Woody Guthrie famously scrawled the words “this machine kills fascists” onto his acoustic guitar. It marked the beginning of an era where American rock & roll music would infiltrate politics and alter political realities both at home and abroad. Guthrie’s “machine” was a synecdoche for music‚ specifically‚ music’s ability to topple authoritarianism and rattle the political landscape. The epitaph foretold that sometimes a guitar‚ more than even armaments
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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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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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Subcultures: Hip Hop and Punk South University Online Compare and Contrast of Subcultures: Hip Hop and Punk Differences in beliefs and values from what the “norm” considers the right way makes you a subculture‚ but what makes them unique are the instruments they use to make their voice heard. While most people have taken for granted their language‚ beliefs and values there are some who within their subculture use their music to escape forms of oppression and lack of freedom. Hip Hop and Punk are
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individuality of a person. Nigger is evident in hip hop music‚ the civil rights movement‚ pop culture‚ and is now used as a term of endearment. The genre of hip hop music inspires use of the generalizing term “nigger”. Hip hop music allows the term “nigger” to be a normal thing to say. When nigger is used in a song it gives people of every race an excuse to use it. Certain words from song only can end up in a person’s vocabulary. In the song “Real Nigga Roll Call” by Lil Jon and The East Side Boyz‚ the
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Hip-Hop was brought into the U.S by a gathering of Jamaican settlers in the 70’s. One of the Jamaicans‚ Clive Campbell‚ A.K.A Kool Herc started‚ making instrumentals out of two turntables. While another man from the Bronx‚ Theodore Livingstone‚ A.K.A Grand Wizard‚ incidentally found the scratching sound of the turntable. Rap was made as a between social marvel of New York’s poorer segments (Harlem‚ Soho‚ Greenwich Village‚ Bronx‚ Queens‚ and Brooklyn). Rap turned into a developed type of Jamaican
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Question one – “Are sex‚ drugs‚ and rock and roll really “very good indeed”? Rock and roll music ethics are usually concerned about the most important topics like equality‚ freedom‚ non – conformity and individualism. Drug abusing is a big part of the subculture that falls under rock and roll music. “Straight Edge is a movement spawned within the hardcore scene in the ’80s. Its followers have made a commitment to abstain from using drugs‚ alcohol and tobacco products.” (Cooper). Straight edge was
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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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culture that countered the white community. While the traditional white community put value in being clean-cut‚ stiff‚ and minimal‚ the black community was more vocal‚ more motley‚ and livelier. In Thomas F. DeFrantz’s “The Black Beat Made Visible: Hip Hop and Body Power”‚ he discusses how these differences begin to effect the performance of black art‚ and specifically black dances. DeFrantz discusses how these differences in culture commanded attention from the white community both positively from
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