1. Rock and roll originated in the United States in the 1950s as a hybrid musical genre that mixed styles like rhythm and blues, country, and western.
2. Early rock and roll was popular among young people as a way to express rebellion and nonconformity. Artists like Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, and Bill Haley and His Comets released some of the first successful rock and roll songs in the 1950s.
3. Rock and roll had a significant social impact by appealing to youth across boundaries of class, age, and taste. It became a globally popular musical genre that has endured for decades.
2. 1.origin-roots
Because of its proximity in time, and when television was
born in America, was already a phenomenon tame, rock and
roll is possibly the first example of popular culture fully and
completely documented from beginning to end.
That does not mean that we can say when he was born
because in reality, not born but was born, little by little, as
happens to all manifestations arising from below.
The form of dance rock and word that designates itself
roamed for decades in American popular culture when, in the
mid-50's, a form of singing and playing starts enfebrecer
young people who see it as the way to channel their desire
for nonconformity and rebellion.
3. Just look at some of the musical dance scenes Hellzapoppin
'(1941) and compare them with the choreography with which
couples danced to "Rip it upl", one of the first rock and roll. If
audio prescindiéramos would be difficult to decide who is the
lindi hop and what rock and roll, because they share most of
the steps.
Leaving aside the choreography, if we focus on the music, the
key concept is hybridization, syncretism, mixing ... and the
magic words to the spell the black rithm and blues and the
southern white Country music. Before the civil and political
barriers between blacks and whites in racist America broke 60,
the musicians had mixed their blood and genres began to merge
to create the rocka billi and rock and roll and in fact, by first
time, to the surprise of the studies themselves, a host of black
singers (Chuck Berry, Little Richard,) also triumphed among
whith you.
4. social and political background
Rock and Roll
The rock appeared in the 50s of the twentieth century in the United States of
North America
Rock and roll is a genre of marked rhythm, derived from a mixture of various styles
of American folklore (rhythm and blues and country and western are the most
prominent).
Origin of the name Rock and Roll
The term "rock and roll" was originally a nautical term that has been used by sailors
for centuries. Refers to "rock" (backward and forward) and "roll" (sideways
movement) of a barco. After 1947, the only people who used to talk about
"rocking" were black gospel singers. "Rocking "was a term used by African
Americans to describe the" kidnapping "they experienced in certain religious
events, and the term also referred to the powerful rhythm was in the music that
accompanied this religious experience.
First instruments to use the Rock
Electric guitar, drums, piano, bass, saxophone and trumpet
First success of rock
"Rock Around the Clock" (Hill Haley): In the year 54 was recorded Rock around the
clock,) whose lyrics told that all who heard the song would dance rock and roll all
night around a clock, until he announced time to go home imposed by parents
5. Extra Features musical
clothing:
-pants and loose
-long hair and unkempt
open shirts and loose-
Meeting places:
- Bars
- Pension
- Permanent
- Other meeting places
Media:
- TV
- Radios
- Magazines
Social and political events: it is a musical style which transcends borders, color
and thought. It was a way of expressing freedom. He served for many
musicians to express themselves.
The rock was frowned upon because it influenced many young people to rebellion.
6. 1.3 main representative
The Rock and Roll is a musical genre that mixes various genres
like R & B, blues, country and western. The Rock and Roll was
very fashionable during the 1950s.
Among the best examples of rock and roll find:
Elvis Presley
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Muddy Waters
Bill Haley
Little Richard
Jerry Lee Lewis
Bo Diddley
Fats Domino
Buddy Holly
Eddie Cochran
Gene Vincent
7. 1.4Main songs
How about if I show you the best songs sorted by artist of Rock & Roll?
Chuck Berry
- Johnny B. Goode
- Little Queenie
- Maybellene
- Memphis Tennessee
- Rock And Roll Music
- Roll Over Beethoven
- School Day (Ring Ring Goes The Bell)
Elvis Presley
- All shook up
- You were always in my mind
- Suspicious Minds
- Devil in disguise
- Jail House Rock
- Heartbreak Hotel
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Are you lonesome tonight
8. Bill Haley and the Haley's Comets
- Rock around the clock
- See you later, alligator
Fats Domino
- Is not that a shame
- I'm in love again
Jerry Lee Lewis
- Great balls of fire
- High school confidential
- What'd I say
- Whole lotta shakings 'goin' on
- Wild one
9. 1.5 Social impact
Throughout these 50 years, the rock has been left for dead
and has risen from the ashes several times, but apparently the
words spoken by King someday became a prophecy: "I think
(the rock and roll) ever die completely, because they will have
to do something extraordinarily good to take his place. "
When the rock, the musical genre that invaded and changed
the world for four decades, was present in youth did in order
to get and stay indefinitely, regardless of social class, age and
taste in general.
! And it is not for nothing ...., This vast ocean of rock music has
reached all corners of the world over time and that was
derived from the Rock n 'Roll Elvis during the furor, Jerry
Lewis, as the best examples of this genre in the United
together.