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Introduction The top two selling music genres of 2014 were Rock and Roll, with eighty-eight million, two hundred and fifty-thousand albums sold, and Rhythm and Blues, also known as R&B, with thirty-five million, seven hundred and fifty-thousand albums sold (Statista.com). Selling billions of dollars worth of albums, singles, concert tickets, and merchandise every year, the artists at the forefront of these two genres are more than successful and saying so would be an understatement. Those same…

The Spring Roll Spring rolls are a very popular Vietnamese dish that describes my cultural identity perfectly. Spring rolls are made up of a mixture of meat and vegetables wrapped in a rice paper. Both of my parents came from Vietnam and raised me around the Vietnamese culture. However, being raised in Hawaii, I view things differently from my parents. Like the meat and vegetables in the spring rolls, I am too mixed. The rice paper wrap is my cultural identity because it holds my Vietnamese…

Emma Philbin Paper #1: Appropriation 2-7-16 Rock History In the 1940s and the 1950s, the music of African American people was the supporting block for the rise of Rock and Roll music. During this time period, racial integration began happening as African Americans began moving from the South to the Northen cities, and within this we began to see cultural integration. However society still greatly held African Americans and whites segregated; and as a result music was greatly segregated as…

first heard rock and roll as it was so new and diverse. Band such as the The Beatles and The Kinks were enthralled with this new sound and the look of the artists producing it. People such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Eddie Cochran all had a massive impact on the British artists and helped inspire them. Their unfamiliar and diverse sound created interest in the British musicians helping them create their own music. They used elements such as the rock and roll sound mixed…

Hound Dog The first person who comes to mind when people think of rock and roll is Elvis Presley. He is often referred to a the the King of Rock. “Hound Dog” is one of Elvis’s early songs and is also one of his most popular. He recorded it in 1956 and it quickly became widely popular all across the United States and especially among teenagers. Teenagers were the driving force of the rock and roll because they now had spending money and they needed something to spend it on. Teenagers also had…

Charles Edward Anderson Berry was one of the most determined rock ‘n’ roll performers in music history. He was born on October 18, 1926, in St. Louis, Missouri. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father was a contractor and deacon of the nearby church. Better known by his stage name, Chuck Berry, had many songs including “Maybellene” and “Johnny B.Goode”. His first hit was No. 1 hit in 1872 with “My Ding-A-Ling”. Berry had an interest in music at an early age, he gave his first performance…

famous guitar riffs comes blazing, as this fast pace song gives you a rush of adrenaline. Lyrically is hard to fallow as it sounds like rap and some of the lyrics are hard to understand but what I understand it is about getting back in the rock and roll party life. The seventh song is called “You Shook Me All Night Long” song starts with a guitar melody as it builds up as the song takes off, the lyrics talk about a guy picking up a girl and having a one-night stand, moreover so far this is the…

Elvis Presley revolutionized Rock & Roll, and his influence still echoes to this day. Elvis was rock & rolls first real star. He had a significant impact on American culture, and his hip swinging threw America into a trance in the 1950’s. Elvis although idolized, gave his listeners symbolic release to expression. His influence on African American music was not only symbolic but surprising. His love life and role in movies is constantly overlooked, yet it played a significant role in the rise and…

need to “clean up” the music and this resulted in clean, shaven, and well-dressed white artists performing covers of blues songs. These covers genuinely lacked the soul and emotion of the original performers. This stripped-down version of rock ‘n’ roll left many in want and it took a few more years for the desire to be filled when Elvis Presley had entered the building, causing one of the biggest musical impacts of modern music.…

shoulder blades.”They were then wiped with sticks 10-200 or more strokes were received” (http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/Majdanek%20Daily%20life/majdanekdailylife.html) . Prisoners days were filled from morning until the evening roll call, with a maximum amount of activity, they were in constant haste, always fearful of beatings and…