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Rock Music Style
The Country Roots of Rock Music
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Origins of Country Music
• From British immigrants settled in the Southern and Appalachian rural regions the tradition of old-time folk music was born, mixing various music traditions from the British Isles, religious music and African-American music.
• Fiddlin’ John Carson from Georgia was one of the first old-time music player whose performance was recorded.
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Origins of Country Music• Dance music was pl
ayed with fiddles (violins) and rhythm instruments.
• Songs are accompanied by a fiddle, a piano, harmonica, guitar or unaccompanied.
• West Virginia Fiddler, Edden Hammons accompanied by his son, James, on banjo.
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Origins of Country Music
• African-Americans developed banjo and it was adapted by white Americans by the time of the Civil War.
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Origins of Country Music
• Dock Boggs (1898-1971) - an influential singer, song writer and banjo player, mixing old-time Appalachian music and blues.
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Origins of Country Music
• After the old-time music was broadcast on the radio and recording technology was developed, the folk-music from the Southern regions became to be called ‘hillbilly.’
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Origins of Country Music
• Bluegrass - a form of American folk music, whose characteristics is to have from four to seven musicians, inc. rhythm section of guitar and string bass.
• Bill Monroe (1911-1996) ‘Blue Moon in Kentucky’
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Origins of Country Music
• Honky-tonk - a bar with entertainment music. As its atmosphere is boisterous, it needed louder, heavier, and stronger music. Honky-tonk emphasizes rhythm more than melody and harmony, with a strong beat and boogie-woogie patterns.
• Hank Williams, “Honky-tonk Blues”
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From Country to Rock’n Roll
• White musicians began to cover blues and R&B recordings, while blues and R&B musicians started covering country music.
• The styles are combined in various ways and rock’n roll was born.
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From Country to Rock’n Roll• Bill Haley (1925-81)
was one of the first rock’n roll musician. Coming from Michigan, he was first country singer and guitarist. In 1951, his group, the Saddlemen, covered and recorded ‘Rocket 88’.
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From Country to Rock’n Roll
• Bill Haley’s coverage was a bigger hit but many listeners sought out Joe Turner’s music. Turner’s songs are full of sexual references and his lyrics were incompletely cleaned up by white musicians who covered them.
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From Country to Rock’n Roll• The record sale was not good.• Discovery: his white audience’s enthusiastic r
esponse during live performances. • Next year, began playing rock’n roll changing
their name into Bill Haley and His Comets. • Their cover of Big Joe Turner’s ‘Shake, Rattle
and Roll’ in 1954 - the worldwide hit. • Their most famous was ‘Rock around the Clo
ck’ though it was unsccessful at its launch.
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From Country to Rock’n Roll• (Big) Joe Turner (1911-
85) - a jazz and blues singer and also known as ‘shouter’.
• His hit songs include ‘Chains of Love’ and ‘Sweet Sixteen’ but when Bill Haley and His Comets’ coverage of his ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’ enhanced his career.
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Rockabilly
• Sam Phillips and Sun Record
• Founded his record company at the age of 21 and recorded blues as he liked African-American music.
• By 1951 he founded Sun Record Company.
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Rockabilly
• Sun Studio in Memphis where Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins made their first recordings.
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Rockabilly• Sam Phillips’ recognition:
despite the rising interest in blues and R&B among the white Americans, they tended to buy more often the records of white musicians; sanitized versions.
• He let white American musicians record African-American music.
• Discovery of Elvis Presley• Formation of rockabilly (rock + hillbilly)
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Rockabilly
• The earliest form of rock’n roll.• Combination of blues/ R&B and hillbilly.• General tendencies:
- Strong rhythm like blues and R&B- Loose twelve-bar structure like blues - Back beat- Tempo is generally faster than blues and R&B- Voice is softer, higher and smoother
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Elvis Presley• Elvis Presley (1935-7
7) is singer and actor - “King of Rock’n Roll: or the King.
• Began his career as rockabilly musician.
• His characteristic rendition of existing songs mixing white and black sounds.
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Elvis Presley
• Sun Records to RCA• In RCA Presley’s mus
ic refined with better recording technology and arrangement: doo-wop-style vocal backings and fine piano accompaniment.
• ‘Blue Suede Shoes’
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Elvis Presley• Television Age• Presley appeared on T
V and excited the teenagers with twisting dance and seductive gaze and voice; scandalized the older generation with them.
• ‘Heartbreak Hotel’‘I Want You, I Need You’Hound Dog
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Elvis Presley• ‘Hound Dog’ by Willie Mae
‘Big Mama’ Thornton- The lyrics were sung by a woman to a man who has cheated on her.- Classic blues style
• ‘Hound Dog by Elvis Presley– The lyrics were sung by a man to a woman who has less value than a hound d
og.– More smooth urban blues
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Elvis Presley
• His Rock’n Roll career was cut short when he was drafted for two years.
• His greatest strength was his silky voice, sensual good look and musical versatility.
• Returning to civilian life, his music became less provocative and Rock’n Roll type.
• Various types of music from rock to smooth, pop like love songs.
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Rock’n Rollers• Carl Perkins (1932-1
998) a rockabilly musician and rock’n roller.
• Successor to Elvis Presley though he wrote his own music.
• The car accident damaged his career.
• The composer of ‘Blue Suede Shoes’
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Rock’n Rollers • Jerry Lee Lewis (1935 • Rock’n Roll singer, song
writer and pianist.• Truly virtuoso piano play
ing, for which he was nicknamed ‘the killer’.
• He did not sanitize lyrics, when he covered African American music
• ‘Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ on’
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Critical Thinking Questions
• What sort of decade was the 1950s, particularly in America.
• How was Rock’n Roll connected to this decade?- Culture, trends, economy, other media
- What were the music and images of Rock’n Roll musicians?
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Critical Thinking Questions
• Rebelliousness• Can you find any equivalence to Rock’n
Rollers today?• What gender, class and racial issues do
you find in Rock’n Roll music?