Major themes in Rock n' Roll - ANSWER-Race
-War
-Economics
-Technology
-The Record Industry
-Problems
The world before Rock n' Roll -Pre 1955 - ANSWERNo mechanism for music to spread (radio, tv, records, etc)
Rock N' Roll has roots in 3 styles of music: - ANSWER1) Mainstream pop (targets wh...
The world before Rock n' Roll -Pre 1955 - ANSWERNo mechanism for music to spread (radio, tv,
records, etc)
Rock N' Roll has roots in 3 styles of music: - ANSWER1) Mainstream pop (targets white middle class)
2) Rhythm and Blues (targets low income blacks)
3) Country Western (targets low income southern whites)
1928--> NBC went... - ANSWERCoast to coast
1930s/40s- golden age for motion pictures, people listening to music they didn't have access to
before
--> Target Audience: white middle-class Americans- could afford tv and radios
Significance of the Radio
(up until what year were records not allowed to be played on the radio & why) - ANSWER--> Radio
provided access to music 700 miles away
-Up until 1945- records weren't played on the radio b/c people assumed the artists were doing a live
performance--> its "deceptive"
televison came in the.... - ANSWERLate 1940s
more appealing
Tin Pan Alley
-Time period
-Artists
-The Goal - ANSWERTime period: first half of the 20th century
, Artists: Irving Berlin, George Irshwin, Bing Crosby, Benny Goodman
The Goal: To get as many artists as possible to perform your song (today it is the opposite)
Pop music in early 1950s - ANSWER-All about the Vocalist
-wholesome songs meant for everyone
Ex) "I'm Sitting On Top of the world" - Les Paul & Mary Ford
Nashville contributes... - ANSWER-Grand Ole Opry
-Hank Williams
-Blue Grass
-Country western, national phenomenon
-Rock n' Roll was ready to explode
Delta Blues
-Influencing artist - ANSWERDelta blues: played very rural, didn't get to many people
Robert Johnson- "crossroads"
-an enormous influence on rock guitarists of the 1960s
-Very relaxed attitude toward Rhythm and Harmony, extremely emotional vocal style, from
Mississippi
The Blues (Urban Blues) - ANSWER-Blues musicians started moving to the city, mainly Chicago
-growing back audience
-blues music began being broadcasted--> white teenagers became an audience too
Ex) Bessie Smith- "I need a little sugar in my bowl"
Characteristics of Blues - ANSWERRough, raw emotion, expressive, vocals are believable, honest
-Created controversy--> very blatant and lyrics were suggestive, many whites had racial sterotypes
Reasons African Americans heading north
-->Artists also headed north - ANSWER1) Bo Weevil
2) Racial Discrimination
3) Drought & severe economic hardship
Artists: Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Walter
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