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    Rock-‘n-roll: Rock and roll is a music genre that emerged in the United States in the early fifties. And is formed from the Blues. The name is created by an American dj named Alan Freed when he wanted to announced a song: ‘My Baby Rocks Me with one Steady Roll’ , and called this new music genre Rock and Roll. Some aspects of the Rock and Roll are the chord diagrams of eight notes, the afterbeat and the instruments that are used. This instruments are the elec-tric guitar, the piano, the contra bass

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    Rey Marinas Mus160 CRN 10962 Homework # 2 Rock & Roll Rock music has come a long way since its development in the early 20th century. The genre, defined “as a merger between rhythm&blues and country” (Scaruffi, The History of Rock Music:1955-1966), started out more as an underground market, but ended up becoming a significant aspect of American popular music history. Rock-n-Roll music produce many legendary artists who will forever be known as innovators of the genre. Elvis Presley and Chuck

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    Rock And Roll Or Roll

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    Shake and roll (frequently composed as rock and roll or shake "n" roll) is a classification of mainstream music that started and developed in the United States amid the late 1940s and mid 1950s,[1][2] from a mix of African-American sorts, for example, soul, boogie-woogie, hop soul, jazz, and gospel music,[3] together with Western swing and nation music.[4] Though components of rock and roll can be heard in soul records from the 1920s[5] and in nation records of the 1930s,[4] the class did not obtain

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    Rock And Roll

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    Rock and Roll is so wonderful it comes with a mountain of followers, enormous production and simply speaking the majority of the music we are lending an ear today, is rock & roll, and its own sub-genres. In that respect there are tens of thousands of rock and roll books, magazines, internet sites, and even encyclopaedias. Fundamentally hybrid in genesis, rock-and-roll consists of elements of a variety of black and white American music formats: black guitar-accompanied blues; black rhythm and blues

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    Rock And Roll Comparison

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    that thoroughly defined either a time period or a culture of a certain region. Rock and roll and jazz are two contrasting genres with slightly similarities between them. They have both been inspired by older and more prominent genres like blues and have also evolved later genres from different regions of the world such as pop music and reggae music. Also, jazz incorporates rock and roll in its music today. Rock and roll and jazz are analyzed singly and descriptively based on aural analyses of live

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    In the 1950’s a new type of music emerged in the United States. Rock and Roll was here to stay. “Rock musicians not only addressed contemporary events, they pushed the conventional musical boundaries.” Rock and Roll had a significant impact on politics, the music industry, and pop culture in the United States during the 1960 's. “Music of the 1960’s often challenged political authority directly and unambiguously.” Rock musicians found themselves considering political involvement through their

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    Elements of rock and roll consists of rhythm, form, melody, harmony, tone color, and many more. This paper will discuss the important elements of Rock and Roll music and some early influences of Rock and Roll. Before it was Rock and Roll it was just called Rock and then it went back to simply rock. Rock and roll music contains many diverse styles. The main elements of rock and roll is the rhythm, form, melody, tone color, harmony, and the instruments used. Genres that influenced rock and roll music included

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    Rock And Roll History

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    The begins of rock and roll have always been challenged as to when they were first established. The most common argument is that is first started in Southern United states, the birth place of many of the first early rock and roll music hits. As the south always had a huge majority of slaves from Africa and immigrants from Europe, through the gathering of different influences that created a connection between African musical traditions with European instrumentation. Immigration of once slaves to populated

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    Essay On Rock And Roll

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    We all know of rock and roll; ACDC, The Beatles, Duffy. The absolute rockstars, literally, of rock. But do we know anything before, or after the golden ages? Do we understand what has happened to rock and why it is so valuable today? Who started rock and roll? Well, that’s easy. Chuck Berry introduced something never heard before, the song named “Maybellene”. Chuck decided to have a nice electric guitar solo, as well as comforting tones that ran over the music with a small valve amplifier. Elvis

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    The Art Of Rock And Roll

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    music like jazz to blues to Rock & Roll. Not that simple in a way but that is taste Rock & Roll was used for multiple reasons with a purpose. It signify as a art for people that they used in many ways it was a drug that someone got on but could not get off once taken. It is a great art never dying only rising with an insufficient amount of possibilities. Rock & Roll is an amazing art with so much potential even the name is amazing people have their own reasons why they rock it may bring or do something

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