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Rock And Roll Flashcards

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Beatles

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  • Safe
  • image conscious
  • rhythm focused
  • very important
  • birth of screaming girls
  • blueprint for successful group
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General rock

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Rebellion!!!
Sex
Drugs
Etc
-heavy beats
-simple melodies
-repetitive chord progressions
-fast tempos
-simple, unsyncopated
-Dorian, mixo, modes
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Elvis

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  • music is “average”
  • he’s a Rebel™
  • 1st guy where image is almost everything
  • dancing only from waist up (seen as inappropriate)
  • helped PoCs break through
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Hendrix

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  • guitar virtuoso
  • most gifted technical guitar player
  • could’ve been the greatest musician in 20th century
  • huge victim of drug abuse
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Drug abuse

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-defined careers and shaped music

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Disco

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-feel good music

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Rolling Stones

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  • popular

- not “pop”

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New Wave

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  • synthesizers
  • the “what” movement of music
  • 70s and 80s
  • opposed to direction of progressive rock
  • stripped back sound of band (similar to 50s and 60s)
  • the Cars
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Other genres

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  • alternative

- punk

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Later/modern rock

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  • amplifiers
  • stadiums
  • pyrotechnics
  • heavy
  • intense
  • ex. ACDC
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Beginning of rock

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  • used to be r&b or race music
  • Alan freed popularized “rock and roll” (slang for having sex)
  • influenced by folk, country, blues, jazz, gospel
  • protest music
  • electric guitar from electric blues
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British Invasion

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  • 60s
  • explosion of British musical acts dominating US charts
  • Beatles, Rolling Stones
  • beat bands (merseybeat) (bouncy, catchy) (Beatles)
  • blues bands (sensual vibes (blues) - inappropriate) (Rolling Stones)
  • trying to replicate US rock
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Skiffle music

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  • fusion of rock and New Orleans jazz and instrumentation

- reverb guitars

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Surf music

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  • Phrygian and minor modes
  • basic blues progression
  • electric guitar
  • reverb guitars
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Beatlemania

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  • ‘beat’ boom spread across Britain
  • Beatles were 60% of US record sales
  • kept all 5 top spots on charts
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Rock developing in 60s

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  • melting pot of genres
  • harmonies given more thought
  • typical rock and roll template
  • experimental drug phases (psychedelic rock)
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Soul

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  • created by African Americans
  • developed late 1950s and remained popular until mid 1980s
  • came from gospel music but secular
  • Ottis Redding
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History of soul

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  • popularity rose in civil rights movement
  • mainly developed as a genre on Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago, Memphis, Alabama
  • different places have different sounds
  • combines elements from gospel and r&b
  • focus on horns
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Gospel

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  • spiritual product of religion, culture, history
  • emerged from slavery
  • God
  • African a,erican
  • fuses different sounds and styles
  • call and response
  • complex rhythms
  • group singing
  • rhythmic instrumentation
  • Thomas A Dorsey
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Styles of gospel

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  • quartet style
  • traditional style
  • contemporary
  • praise and worship
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Gospel instrumentation

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  • tambourine
  • drums
  • bass guitar
  • piano
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Motown

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  • Motown records
  • Detroit = motor city - Motown
  • played a role in breaking segregation
  • sound of young America
  • upbeat, bright tempo
  • smooth jazz or hardcore gospel singers
  • exclusively about romance
  • heavy sax, rhythmic bass, sweet strings, bass line
  • Marvin Gaye
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Classic rock

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  • 60s and 70s
  • guitar driven
  • many bands started with it and branched out
  • Queen
  • guns and roses
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Heavy metal

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  • 60s and 70s
  • dark angry sound reflects economic decline
  • roots in blues and hard rock
  • black sabbath
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Acid rock

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  • 60s
  • LSD parties
  • abstract sounds
  • focus on melody and improv (blues)
  • the Doors
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Progressive rock

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  • 70s-90s
  • full of experimentation (keyboard dominant)
  • avoids common VCVCBC structure
  • many songs over 5 mins with long instrumental sections
  • influences from jazz, classical, blues
  • pink Floyd

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