THE BRITISH INVASION ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC

The British Invasion Rock and Roll Music

The British Invasion Rock and Roll Music

British Invasion

The term "British Invasion" is called the penetration of the popular British musical culture in the United States. The Beatles, in the early years represented a fundamentally new phenomenon in world music and rock music in particular.

They were joined by an extraordinary musical fruitfulness and entirely new image (not just a singer-songwriter with the group, and four outstanding personalities of the group, where everyone sings and everyone is able to compose a hit). Their popularity covered almost the entire world. It was approximately regarded as the beginning of performance at the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 which marked the beginning of an unprecedented phenomenon for the time - "Beatlemania."

Following The Beatles several other British bands became popular. Musical life in Britain began to develop, new music clubs were discovered, and rock and roll music became increasingly diverse.

The Sixties

The sixties was the period when many music artists released hits after hits. The radio channels only played songs that were most popular among the variety of records being released. Music bands only recorded the best collection of the songs they made in order to get a chance of becoming a hit. The Americans switched from the 1950s folksinger and saxophone sounds to the folk rock, British Invasion and Motown sounds. The counter-culture movement of the sixties, predominantly in the youth, established the demand for music such as pop, rock, reggae, soul, and blues that was created by the drug-culture.

Rock is music of far greater surface seriousness and lyric complexity. It is the product of a more self-aware and se1fconscious group of musicians. The best music in both idioms came from men who recorded their own material, or worked very ...