Dawes Rolls

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…

They used a style of Rock and Blues to create a style that was new to the public, it was known as the mixture of “Chicago blue and rock n’ roll” (Doyle) and that they always stayed true to this sound, “stayed true to their filthy, blues-based sound” (Williams). The band itself, did not really play together, they each had their own style. With each person relating to another artist, or style…

Among the formal, identifying musical traits of the blues are the familiar “blue notes,” a three-line AAB verse form, and a characteristic use of the familiar blues chord progression. Historically, the popularity of blues coincides with the rise of the commercial recording industry, the introduction of “race” records aimed at black record-buyers after 1920, and the emigration of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North. Many of the earliest black American recording stars were…

maintain a spot there throughout the majority of his increasingly inspiring career. Despite the opinions of people everywhere, Little Richard’s high-pitched voice mixed with his jaw dropping piano skills greatly influenced the defining moments of rock ‘n’ roll. He underwent multiple complications within his family during his childhood years, but always stayed true to church and his passion for music. Richard caught what he thought to be his big break with RCA Records in Atlanta nearing the end…

Since I got to choose what I wanted to write about for this report I decided to choose one of my favorite genres, country. It’s a style of music that was first developed in the southern and western states, which used to be known as folk type of music, but since then has transformed into pop/country. I would like to elaborate more on the old country musical instruments. Instruments generally used in the more traditional genre of country music were the banjo, fiddle, harmonica, string bass, and…

Classic rock films emerged in the mid 20th century are a form of documentary which depict a certain (or multiple) musicians and artists. The subject of ‘rock stars’ have remained a frequent subject of films whether the film depicts their life as exciting and decadent or rather average and mundane. Films such as “Monterey Pop Festival” (1968) and “Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind” (2005) depict artists from different perspectives of their lives, thus altering how the respective artists are…

Artist Dr. Dre should be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because he introduced a new type of music to the public, created one of the most popular music, and motivated lots of the current artists. Dr. Dre born in Compton, CA. Coming from a singing background. Both of Dr. Dre’s parents were singers. Later on his parents split up and Dr. Dre lived with his mother. He moved often, so not paying as much attention in school. After his parents split…

Pink Floyd’s Influences on Music Styles Have you ever thought about how did our music changed rapidly? Our music changed by different bands being able to modify our music styles and creating something revolutionary. Pink Floyd is one of the examples of how our music style had evolved. Pink Floyd uses different performances and techniques to make their music better and transforming our music. Not just their performances, their albums and songs that are created changed the whole idea of music too.…

June and Johnny Cash June and Johnny Cash are some of the most famous singers during their time. They had written many songs together such as one of their most famous "I Walk the Line" and "Ring of Fire". Their love story had made it to theaters; the movie was called Walk the Line. Even though they had tough times while married to each other they had shown that they were always there for each other. Throughout this paper we will get to know June and Johnny separate as well as a married couple…

The history of rock-and-roll was changed for the better after The Beatles. Their “songs were as powerfully influential on the rock musicians of the 70's and 80's as the recordings of Louis Armstrong were on the jazz soloists of the 30's and 40's” (Terry Teachout 1). Their impact…