Rock & Roll
Rock music is very complex. In fact "It’s stylistic scope is to broad to be encompassed by any single definition (Romanowski, p.1).” The nearest definition suggests a kind of music that represents and speaks for the teenage society. This music is characterized by using a heavy beat. In this essay, I’m going to divide Rock music into four sections: Rock of the 50´s, of the 60´s, of the 70´s and of the 80´s. Within these sections I’m also going to discuss how the music affected the listeners then and now. The first section of this essay is Rock n’ Roll of the 1950’s, when Rock n’ Roll was born. It emerged from rhythm and blues, a music similar to jazz played by African Americans. This kind of music started to attract white teenagers. Disc jockey Alan Freed was the one who introduced this music and later gave it the name of Rock n’ Roll. Record companies distributed records played by whites but composed by blacks to be the stars until Bill Haley appeared with his "Rock Around the Clock". In this decade, Elvis Presley introduced a music that was sexual suggestive and outraged adults. In time he changed the style of the music by adopting a country western style. By the end of this decade and the start of the next, Rock n’
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Approximate Word count = 1576
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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