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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at night to prevent the noise that disrupted sleep and caused annoyance to the citizens. Centuries later‚ some cities in Medieval Europe either banned horse drawn carriages and horses from the streets at night or covered the stone streets with straw to reduce noise and to ensure peaceful sleep for the residents.(Berglund & Lindval 2:1-195) In more recent times in Philadelphia‚ the framers of our Constitution covered nearby cobblestone streets with earth to prevent noise-induced interruptions
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Noise pollution is a disturbance to the human environment that is escalating at such a high rate that it will become a major threat to the quality of human lives. Noises in all areas‚ especially in urban areas‚ have been increasing rapidly. Poor urban planning gives rise to noise pollution Sources of noise pollution The main source of noise pollution is transportation systems especially motor vehicle. The other sources are aircraft noise and rail noise. Besides transportation noise‚ other sources
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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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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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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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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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Beatles: Impact On Rock N’ Roll Perhaps music can be considered to be one of the most universal things in the world. Notably‚ music since the 1960s have been greatly shaped by one of the most monumental music figures in the history of the world‚ The Beatles. Before the Beatles became a prominent figure in music‚ the most popular genres of music were all forms of jazz. The Beatles alone were the main influence in bringing rock n’ roll in the music spotlight and still continue to do
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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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