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Exam 1: Roots of Rock and the '50s Flashcards

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December 7, 1941

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Pearl Harbor

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February 3, 1959

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The day the music died

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November 22, 1963

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assassination of JFK

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February 7, 1964

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Beatles Land in America

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April 4, 1968

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assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

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August 15-18, 1969

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Woodstock music and art festival

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December 6, 1969

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Altamont festival featuring Rolling Stones

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May 4, 1970

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Kent State shootings

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August 8, 1974

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Richard Nixon resigns presidency

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August 16, 1977

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death of Elvis Presley

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February 22, 1980

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Miracle on Ice

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December 8, 1980

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Death of John Lennon

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August 1, 1981

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Birth of MTV

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May 16, 1983

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Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, and Forever

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January 28, 1986

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Space shuttle challenger explodes

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April 5, 1994

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Kurt Cobain commits suicide

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September 13, 1996 and March 9, 1997

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murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls

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September 11, 2001

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Twin Towers

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August 29, 2005

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Hurricane Katrina

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20
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American popular music born out of:

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folk, bluegrass, blues, jazz

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Differences between blues and jazz

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blues is a static artform and jazz is a dynamic artform

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Jazz

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dixieland; stride piano and ragtime

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swing

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born out of integration era: speak-easys; integration of white and black musicians common

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Big band era

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World War II; end of prohibition destroys speak-easys

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description of radio in early 1950s

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consisted of AM stations, radio included news and entertainment programs, and music was intended for adult audiences

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Popular artists

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Andrews Sisters, Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Ella Fitzgerald

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What happens to radio in later 1950s?

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more news and entertainment programs move to TV creating more room for music and less mainstream music can be heard by young people through AM radio

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4 influences of rock and roll

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blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, country

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blues

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born out of worker songs and slave songs; simple music containing 3 cords on acoustic guitar; woeful lyrics speaking to sadness of life

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blues artists

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robert johnson (crossroad blues)

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rhythm and blues

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electric idiom; similar lyrical qualities with blues and became overtly sexual; known as race music

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rhythm and blues artists

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Muddy Waters (Mannish boy and Got my Mojo Workin), Willie Dixon (I’m Your Hoochie Coochie Man), Big Mama Thornton (Hound Dog)

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gospel

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similar to R&B in style; differences include lyrics and instrumentation

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gospel artists

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Mahalia Jackson (Didn’t It Rain) and Ray Charles (I Got a Woman and What I’d Say)

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country

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simple storytelling music; Caucasian influence; demonstrated badboy image that appealed to early rockers

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country artists

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Hank Williams (Hey Good Lookin and I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry), Johnny Cash (I Walk The Line and Folsom Prison Blues), George Jones, and Merle Haggard

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simple recipe for early rock

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combination of R&B and country; sometimes called Rock-a-Billy; example includes Chuck Berry’s Maybelline

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two major record labels shaped early rock

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chess and sun records

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chess records

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owned and operated by phil and leonard chess; recorded exclusively black artists

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Bo Diddly

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known for driving rhythms and hard edged guitar sound; many songs on one cord

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Etta James

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R&B that chess turned into a ballad singer; most famous for “At Last”

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Chuck Berry

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famous for stage antics; nicknames such as Poet-Laureate of Rock and Roll or Father of Rock and Roll; songs such as Johnny B. Goode, Roll Over Beethoven, and No Particular Place to Go

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Little Richard

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Wild man on stage; wore makeup (pencil mustache); one of best piano rock and rollers; songs such as Tutti Frutti, Good Golly Miss Molly, Long Tall Sally, Lucille

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Fats Domino

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Sweet singing balladeer; famous for Blueberry Hill

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Sun records

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founded by Sam Phillips; provided avenue for white artists to record rock and R&B standards

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Jerry Lee Lewis

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wild stage antics, known as the killer, cousin of tele-evangelist Jimmy Swaggart; songs such as Great Balls of Fire and Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On

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Roy Orbison

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ballad singer; nearly an operatic voice; songs such as Ooby Dooby, Crying, and Pretty Woman

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Johnny Cash

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known as the man in black; freight train sound of band was famous; songs such as Walk the Line, Folsom Prison Blues, and Ring of Fire

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Elvis Sun or Chess

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Sun records

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Elvis early recordings

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thats all right, blue moon of kentucky, hound dog

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When does Elvis go to the army?

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1960s

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times have changed, movie actor, balladeer

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1970s

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vegas act, unhealthy(overweight)

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Elvis cause of death

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heart attack induced by prescription drug addiction

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Bill Haley + the Comets

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country background; Rock Around the Clock

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Buddy Holly + the Crickets

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That’ll Be The Day and Peggy Sue; born in Texas; killed in Iowa plane crash

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What happened to Elvis

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went to army

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What happened to Chuck Berry

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arrested under Mann Act for having sex with minor (14) – not proven, transported her across state lines to work in his club (not allowed)

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Jerry Lee Lewis

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marries cousin

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Little Richard

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finds God – turns back on rock “for a little while”

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What replaces the rebels?

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Dick Clark and American Bandstand

62
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Chubby Checker

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the twist, lets twist again, twist it up, slow twist

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