Rock It

Even though I do agree with you on the fact that 80’s rock had a tremendous influence on the rainbow of music styles that we have today, there are some facts in your argument that I wish to dispute. First off, rock n’ roll was heavily popular since the 50’s; you had Chubby Checker, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and…of course…Elvis Presley. These artists are the ones that took backstreet-bar blues and turned it into the mainstream media that it is today. Without them, you would not…

researchers Jeffery Lozon and Moshe Bensimon examines genres as alternative rock, hard rock, heavy metal, hip-hop/rap, punk rock, rock and electronic/techno to see if it influences an individual’s behavior negatively. Researchers Lozon and Bensimon expect to find that music as those listed above will have a connection to aggressive behavior and possible deviant activity. The research to determine whether if genres of music…

the top if you want to rock and roll”. These words serve as a summation of the music that plagued a generation and became more than a new genre of music loved by so many people and hated by even more. The rough and wild world of Rock and Roll music was the pretext for the changes in society that were much needed during the time of its birth and throughout its entire rein of its popularity, spanning from 1951 to the present day. As with any period of evolution and change, Rock and Roll was met…

Jordan Lee MUS 1006 History of Rock and Roll Final Paper Pop, a popular music genre that has originated from the Western World that has continued its relevance in the 21st century. It began to be a softer alternative to rock and roll in the 1950s and eventually became one of the most popular genre by the youth; which is where it got its name ‘pop’ from. Pop music is somewhat a contrast to rock and roll. Rock identifies with a particular subculture while pop tends to cut across audiences…

This was my first rock and roll concert that I have ever attended. It was an amazing experience to witness live the energy of this genre of music. During the concert, the spontaneity in the artists’ improvisations, musical communications of the artists by their listening to each other’s instruments, the guitarist’s hair shaking and lively performance, the guitarist’s and the bassist’s jumps in the middle of the songs reflecting their musical expression, and the bassist’s impromptu singing in a…

sure my admiration for progressive rock concept albums started back when I began seriously getting into collecting record albums. As a kid in my single digits, and entering my teens, I had 45's of whatever bubble gum / novelty songs that caught my ear. At around age twelve, from hanging out with my school friends, and sometimes their older siblings, I became exposed to more of what they were playing on the FM radio stations, then the AM ones. Bottom line, rock n' roll was my thing. I'm drawn…

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…

Jai Chew 5/18/19; 6th hour Born To Rock Do you think that people can be born to rock? In the novel Born To Rock by Gordon Korman, who was an NYU freshman until he discovered New York’s punk scene. Gordon has more than fifty middle-grade and young adults novels to credit. Leo Carway is a seventeen year old senoir in high school. He also is the president of the Young Republican club, a math scholarship to Harvard, and struggling with is not knowing who is his father. Leo thought that he had…

During the psychedelic rock movement of the 1970s, there was without a doubt no shortage of artists looking to have their big chance to set the trends in the genre. Although many bands have come and went, few of these classic rocks bands were able to break musical boundaries; let alone make waves in the industry. While there were several psychedelic bands that broke out and managed to change our perception of the psychedelic rock genre, the most notable band of this movement would be no other…

It is not by chance this problem exists in rock music. Fisher wrote extensively about these types of problems in his essay. Fisher noted that rock challenges the traditional thinking about an objective aesthetic value, and that its creation present problems for the question of authenticity in music.1 Fisher proposes that recorded music has its own separate ontology that must be taken into account, if we are to talk about authenticity issues in music. Recordings have specific sound events that…