I have a project abut the History of Rock Music?

Question

Pls help .I need names ..the best songs and abt legends of Rock Music

Answer 1

History of Rock Music

The Beginnings
Chuck Berry invented rock and roll in 1955. Berry was a black man playing black music. But times had changed: white kids were listening to rhythm and blues throughout the Northeast, and white musicians were playing rhythm and blues side to side with country music. The music industry soon understood that there was a white market for black music and social prejudice, racial barriers, could nothing against the forces of capitalism. Rock and roll was an overnight success. The music industry promoted white idols such as Elvis Presley, but the real heroes were the likes of Chuck Berry, who better symbolize the synergy between the performer and the audience. The black rockers, and a few white rockers, epitomized the youth's rebellious mood, their need for a soundtrack to their dreams of anticonformism. Their impact was long lasting, but their careers were short lived. For one reason or another, they all stopped recording after a brief time. Rock and roll was inherited by white singers, such as Presley, who often performed songs composed by obscure black musicians. White rockers became gentler and gentler, thereby drowning rock and roll's very reason to exist. Buddy Holly was the foremost white rocker of the late Fifties, while cross-pollination with country music led to the vocal harmonies of the Everly Brothers and to the instrumental rock of Duan Eddy.

The kids' malaise returned, with a much taller wave, when folksingers started singing about the problems of the system. Kids who had not identified with Woody Guthrie's stories of poor people, identified immediately with folksingers singing about the Vietnam war and civil rights. Bob Dylan was arguably the most influential musician of the era. He led the charge against the Establishment with simple songs and poetic lyrics. A generation believed in him and followed his dreams. Music became the expression of youth's ambitions.

At the same time, the story of commercial rock music took a bizarre turn when it hit the coast of California: the Beach Boys invented surf music. Surf music was just rock and roll music, but with a spin: very sophisticated vocal harmonies. California had its own ideas about what rock and roll should be: a music for having fun at the beaches and at the parties. The Beach Boys' vocal harmonies, a natural bridge between rockers and doo-wop, turned out to be a fantastic delivery vehicle for the melodic aspect of rock and roll, that black musicians usually buried in their emphatic shouting.
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Answer 2

Very broad, but here goes:
1950s Early Rock:
Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
Chuck Berry - Rock and Roll Music
Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire

Early-Mid 1960s British Invasion:
Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There
Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Mid 1960s Folk Rock:
Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind
Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence
The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!

Late 1960s Psychedelic/Harder Rock:
Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
The Doors - Light My Fire
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze

Answer 3

Rock music is really broad - do you have a time period in mind or a sub-genre within rock?

I'd definitely include some of classic bands like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin, both of whom opened doors for countless artists in the decades to follow. Of course, they both owed a lot of their style to blues and R&B artists.

For a great timeline, check out The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's website.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Kind of a broad question!

Try this for an overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music

Also, as Sandra Dee said above, the Rock Hall of Fame site is excellent.

Answer 6

The Blues had a baby, they called it Rock'n Roll.
Robert Johnson
Muddy Waters
Little Richard

Answer 7

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