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
2
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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
3
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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
4
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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
5
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Drug abuse
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-defined careers and shaped music
6
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Disco
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-feel good music
7
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Rolling Stones
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- popular
- not “pop”
8
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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
9
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Other genres
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- alternative
- punk
10
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Later/modern rock
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- amplifiers
- stadiums
- pyrotechnics
- heavy
- intense
- ex. ACDC
11
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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
13
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Skiffle music
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- fusion of rock and New Orleans jazz and instrumentation
- reverb guitars
14
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Surf music
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- Phrygian and minor modes
- basic blues progression
- electric guitar
- reverb guitars
15
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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
16
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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)
17
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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
18
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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
20
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Styles of gospel
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- quartet style
- traditional style
- contemporary
- praise and worship
21
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Gospel instrumentation
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- tambourine
- drums
- bass guitar
- piano
22
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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
23
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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
24
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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
25
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Acid rock
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- 60s
- LSD parties
- abstract sounds
- focus on melody and improv (blues)
- the Doors
26
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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
