Peace, war and rebellion. These three words that can sum up rock and roll in a whole. Starting in the 1950’s, rock has been known to break all the rules. Challenging racial barriers, family values, and teen rebellions, transitioning the decades and shaping society. From the beginning and its creation to its influence in America through the decades, shows how important rock and roll was important to history.
Singing out their pain and suffering, or just to make the time fly by, blues was said to have been created by early slavery. Deep south in the mid to late 1800’s, blues is known to be deeply rooted with African American culture and history originating from 19th century while in the southern plantations (Kopp). As Ed Kobb explains in the …show more content…
As Regan Wardensky explains to us, “The purpose behind the music, produced by blues and rock and roll, is designed from the same perspective. The goal of both these genres of music is to create music with raw emotion. The blues emotion-driven style of music inspired the same pattern to be followed by rock and roll.” With people against this new music, some believed that this new genre wouldnt last long comparing it to a phase. But as Bill Haley had the first rock and roll hit the world witnessed on the top of the “Pop” charts with the song ‘Rock around the Clock,’ people realize that the genre was here to stay (Mellor). As the article ‘America Rocks and Rolls’ explains that with adults being appauled by this new version of music and not allowing their children to listen to it, sparked teens to rebel against their parents music. This article also tells us, “In general, the older generation loathed rock and roll. Appalled by the new styles of dance the movement evoked, churches proclaimed it Satan's music.” Middle and upper class viewed rock as a tasteless genre, since it had risen from the lower class. It was banned from hundreds of schools and many radio stations (Peterson). Even the most famous of people dispised the …show more content…
The lyrics were often strange and made reference to drugs and bands would often use instruments that were not usual, like the sitar, tabla, harpsichord and organ” (Pearson). Although drugs and war were big problems at this time, without their inspiration to musicians, we would not have as many great songs as we would have had
Singing out their pain and suffering, or just to make the time fly by, blues was said to have been created by early slavery. Deep south in the mid to late 1800’s, blues is known to be deeply rooted with African American culture and history originating from 19th century while in the southern plantations (Kopp). As Ed Kobb explains in the …show more content…
As Regan Wardensky explains to us, “The purpose behind the music, produced by blues and rock and roll, is designed from the same perspective. The goal of both these genres of music is to create music with raw emotion. The blues emotion-driven style of music inspired the same pattern to be followed by rock and roll.” With people against this new music, some believed that this new genre wouldnt last long comparing it to a phase. But as Bill Haley had the first rock and roll hit the world witnessed on the top of the “Pop” charts with the song ‘Rock around the Clock,’ people realize that the genre was here to stay (Mellor). As the article ‘America Rocks and Rolls’ explains that with adults being appauled by this new version of music and not allowing their children to listen to it, sparked teens to rebel against their parents music. This article also tells us, “In general, the older generation loathed rock and roll. Appalled by the new styles of dance the movement evoked, churches proclaimed it Satan's music.” Middle and upper class viewed rock as a tasteless genre, since it had risen from the lower class. It was banned from hundreds of schools and many radio stations (Peterson). Even the most famous of people dispised the …show more content…
The lyrics were often strange and made reference to drugs and bands would often use instruments that were not usual, like the sitar, tabla, harpsichord and organ” (Pearson). Although drugs and war were big problems at this time, without their inspiration to musicians, we would not have as many great songs as we would have had