The book "The Art of Rock and Roll" by Charles T.
methods for analyzing music and anyone who reads the books should be able.
to develop.
techniques for listening to music and making legitimate statements about.
it. It treats rock.
and roll as a serious art form and traces it cultural roots throughout the.
book.
Chapter one discusses the elements of rock and makes four assumptions. .
Assumption one states that rock is a legitimate art form. An art form is.
defined as a.
creative act that springs from the artist's experience as it reflects or.
reacts against society. .
It then states that acculturation, a process by which a certain people are.
influenced by a.
foreign culture, changed the Afro-Americans from their original culture to.
one that was a.
mixture of U.S. influences and African roots which played a large part in.
the way rock and.
roll sounds today. Brown proves rock is a legitimate art form by talking.
about its.
audience and its lasting power. .
Assumption two states that rocks roots are in folk, jazz, and pop.
music. .
Musicians who first started rock and roll must have had something to base.
their music on.
which turned out to be primarily folk, jazz, and pop. They simple changed.
the pattern and.
style of that music and started forming rock.
Assumption three states that it is just as valid to study rock and roll.
as European.
classical music. Rock will prove to be a valid means of producing.
competent musicians.
and that it demands the same type of performance as in any musical form. .
Since it is a.
valid way in which to study music in general it is just as valid to start.
with rock as starting.
anywhere else. .
Assumption four states that simple musical analysis of selected.
compositions is a.
primary tool for understanding musical evolution. Through musical.
analysis we are able to.
generalize and say that rock from a certain era has common.
characteristics. By doing this.
we are able to see what influences lead rock to where it is today.
In the 50's, the Beats usually indulged themselves in Rock and Roll, Jazz, and the Blues. ... In the 60's, the Hippies indulged themselves in Rock and Roll and certain types of Jazz. ... The Beats were very much interested in controversial things such as Jazz, Blues, and Rock and Roll. ... Rock and Roll has always been a very unique style of music. ... Rock and Roll began to mostly appeal to the younger crowds. ...
Punk Rock returned rock & roll to the basics - three chords and a simple melody. It just did it louder and faster and more abrasively than any other rock & roll in the past. ... Evolving out of jump blues in the late '40s, R&B laid the groundwork for rock & roll. ... Progressive rock and art rock are two almost interchangeable terms describing a mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility. The differences between prog-rock and art rock are often slight in practice, but do exist. ...
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