History of Rock n Roll Music



History of Rock n Roll Music

Introduction

Rock Music is the generic term for music genres, which developed in the late 1960s from the mixing of rock 'n' roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and other musical styles such as Beat music and blues. Different youth cultures can be with identified within many genres of rock music (Carson, 2005).

Discussion

Cast of a Rock Band

The cast of rock groups traditionally consists of electrical and/ or acoustic guitars, electric bass, percussion and vocals. This occupation is often piano and keyboards like Hammond organ and synthesizer ads. Depending on the style brass is also included in the band. Considering music theory, these are considered to homophonic music: accompanied by a rhythm section, vocals, guitar or other instruments solo lead with a stand-out tune (Carson, 2005).

History

1950s

The Rock goes to the rock 'n' roll back to when the turn of the combination of country music and rhythm and blues was born. Bill Haley record Rock Around the Clock of 12 April 1954 helped the Rock 'n' Roll make an international breakthrough. Rock Around the Clock and many other rock 'n' roll songs of the 1950s helped the rock n roll music to grow and become popular. The African-American rhythm and blues are very similar stylistically. The best-known representatives of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s were Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and Buddy Holly.

The rock music as an independent form of music is different from the rock 'n' roll much by the pace, as the rock eighth notes are played in binary, so "straight" as we know it from the Latin American and European music. In rock 'n' roll, the eighth notes are between the beats; however, shifted slightly (between the quarter notes) back so that a ternary rhythm is created (Shuffle) (Friedlander & Miller, 2006).

1960s

The rock 'n' roll has been changed stylistically in England in the 1960s. Two of the most important pioneers of rock music as a precursor to the beat band are The Beatles and the heavily influenced by the blues band The Rolling Stones. Here, the first detail should be genre -splitting, which later became characteristic, should be for the rock scene: On the one hand, the Beatles were having their beat music that occurred in suits with tie and was rather melodic, harmony dominated tended songs, and on the other hand, were the Rolling Stones, which stood out due to rather harsh sound. The magazine Rolling Stone called the track, I Cannot Get No Satisfaction, by the Rolling Stones as the actual birth of rock (Kallen, 2003).

By the appearance of bands such as Cream, The Who or The Jimi Hendrix Experience mid-1960s, a period of more sophisticated themes in rock music began to hold feeder. Cream established in this period including extended improvisation within rock music and influenced since this term, including bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Jeff Beck ...