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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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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
consisted of AM stations, radio included news and entertainment programs, and music was intended for adult audiences
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Popular artists
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?
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
blues, rhythm and blues, gospel, country
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blues
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
robert johnson (crossroad blues)
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rhythm and blues
electric idiom; similar lyrical qualities with blues and became overtly sexual; known as race music
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rhythm and blues artists
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
similar to R&B in style; differences include lyrics and instrumentation
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gospel artists
Mahalia Jackson (Didn't It Rain) and Ray Charles (I Got a Woman and What I'd Say)
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country
simple storytelling music; Caucasian influence; demonstrated badboy image that appealed to early rockers
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country artists
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
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
chess and sun records
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chess records
owned and operated by phil and leonard chess; recorded exclusively black artists
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Bo Diddly
known for driving rhythms and hard edged guitar sound; many songs on one cord
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Etta James
R&B that chess turned into a ballad singer; most famous for "At Last"
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Chuck Berry
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
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
Sweet singing balladeer; famous for Blueberry Hill
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Sun records
founded by Sam Phillips; provided avenue for white artists to record rock and R&B standards
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Jerry Lee Lewis
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
ballad singer; nearly an operatic voice; songs such as Ooby Dooby, Crying, and Pretty Woman
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Johnny Cash
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
Sun records
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Elvis early recordings
thats all right, blue moon of kentucky, hound dog
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When does Elvis go to the army?
1958-1960
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1960s
times have changed, movie actor, balladeer
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1970s
vegas act, unhealthy(overweight)
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Elvis cause of death
heart attack induced by prescription drug addiction
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Bill Haley + the Comets
country background; Rock Around the Clock
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Buddy Holly + the Crickets
That'll Be The Day and Peggy Sue; born in Texas; killed in Iowa plane crash
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What happened to Elvis
went to army
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What happened to Chuck Berry
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
marries cousin
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Little Richard
finds God -- turns back on rock "for a little while"
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What replaces the rebels?
Dick Clark and American Bandstand
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Chubby Checker
the twist, lets twist again, twist it up, slow twist

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