Rock Music Essay, Research Paper
Rock Music
In this essay, I’m going to introduce to the reader a topic not touched a
lot because of its complexity and its avoidance by conservative adults.
This topic is, of course, Rock Music. During one week, I looked for
information in the library and at my house, and from the information I
gathered and my one knowledge about the topic, I’m going to lead the reader
to a better understanding of Rock n’ Roll. I chose to do Rock music because
I can identify myself with it. Rock music is very complex. In fact “It’s
stylistic scope is to broad to be encompassed by any single definition”
(”Rock Music”, Groliers, p.1). The nearest definition suggests a kind of
music that represents and speaks for the teenage society. This music is
characterized by using a heavy beat. In this essay, I’m going to divide
Rock music into four sections: Rock of the 50’s, of the 60’s, of the 70’s
and of the 80’s. Within these sections I’m also going to discuss several
sub-topics such as famous composers and groups, and characteristics of the
music.
The first section of this essay is Rock n’ Roll of the 1950’s, when Rock n’
Roll was born. It emerged from rhythm and blues, a music similar to jazz
played by blacks. This kind of music started to attract white teenagers.
Disc jockey Alan Freed was the one who introduced this music and later gave
it the name of Rock n’ Roll. Record companies distributed records played by
whites but composed by blacks. Whites were frustrated because there weren’t
any white artists and they didn’t want the blacks to be the stars until
Bill Haley appeared with his “Rock Around the Clock”. In this decade, Elvis
Presley introduced a music that was sexual suggestive and outraged dull
adults. In time he changed the style of the music by adopting a country and
western style and became a national hero. By the end of this decade and the
start of the next, Rock n’ Roll started to decline because it was formula
ridden and it was too sentimental. Teenage audiences transferred their
allegiance to Folk music.
In 1963 the renewal of Rock n’ Roll came when The Beatles started to play.
The Beatles, for some the best rock group ever, were from Liverpool,
England. Through the 60’s, The Beatles dominated the record industries and
with their dominant instrumentation, which included: electric leads, rhythm,
and bass guitar, drums and sometimes an electric organ, changed the name of
Rock n’ Roll to just Rock. During the 1960’s many other styles of music
arose from Rock like, Motown, Soul music, Jazz-rock , Folk-rock and others.
Folk-Rock the most appreciated of this derivations and was first suggested
by Bob Dylan. This kind of music brought to folk music a hard beat and
amplification; and to Rock, a new poetic style. California was one of the
major centers of rock activity and experimentation during the decade. First
it was characterize for its surfing music, a very joyful music that
reflected the fun people had while surfing. The Beach Boys were the ones
who introduced this kind of music.
At the end of the century this happy kind of music changed to a more
rebellious style that was designated the name of “hippie music”. Groups
that played this music were Country Joe and The Mamas and The Papas. Along
with this hippie ideas popularity of hallucinogenic drugs produced a
psychedelic style of music called Acid Rock. By the end of the 60’s the
distinctions between Rock n’ Roll and Rock were evident. The early
instruments- saxophone, piano, amplified guitar, and drums- had been
changed to electric guitar and bass, amplified drums and other electronic
devices. Not only did the instruments change but so did the ideas behind
the music. For example, “to the lyrics of teenage love and adolescent
concerns were added social commentary, glorification of drugs and free-
association poetry”(”Rock Music”, Groliers, p.1). Groups like The Beach
Boys, Crew Cuts and The Everly Brothers were replaced by more imaginative,
non-descriptive names groups like The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother
and Holding Company. The Who, the most famous of these groups, were
originally from England and were reknowned because of their bizarre stage
performances, they would destroy their instruments after their performance
finished. The Who was one of the first rock groups.
In the 70’s, the common barriers of rock broke into more divisions, like
hard rock and mellow rock. Hard Rock was extremely loud and electronically
amplified and Mellow Rock was softer and with acoustic instruments. In 1972,
in Jamaica, a new style of music was created called Reggae. Reggae is a
mixture of rock, soul, calypso and Latin music. The king of Reggae was Bob
Marley. Other styles more in rocks borders, since Reggae was more latin
than rock, were created in the middle of this century, like: bubble gum
rock, a funny playful music directed to the youngest fans, Punk Rock, “a
loud, hard rock style derived from acid rock and marked by its extremes of
costume and staging” (”Rock Music”, Encarta, p.1), and Heavy Metal, which
continued the approach to Acid Rock but with a simpler musical dimension
but relying upon the power of repetitiveness, loud volume, and electronic
distortion.
One famous group of Heavy Metal was Led Zeppelin, a British group that was
formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page (lead guitar), Robert Plant (lead singer),
John Paul Jones (pianist and bassist) and John Bonham (drummer). Most music
of this decade was intended to be listened to, but not to be danced. But
this intention wasn’t kept by Disco music that arose in 1977 and was
especially for dancing. One great group of Disco music were the Bee Gees.
Disco music was described by rock fans as mechanical, commercial and
unlyrical (which is true). At the end of this decade, rock, again became a
dominant cultural force.
The last but not least section of this essay is rock of the 80’s. At the
start of this last decade, rock groups became more production oriented,
mainly because of the sudden explosion of videos. This new sensation was a
good way to sell music to the people. Heavy metal bands were greatly pushed
by videos, but most helped were the popular performers like Michael Jackson,
Prince and Boy George. The influence of British bands of punk, disco,
reggae and pop-rock was still big in the U.S. Rock scene. At the same time,
there of nostalgia to return to the older pre rock music, like rhythm and
blues, which was suggested by played by Elvis Costello. By the middle of
the 80’s, almost every country had begun to support indigenous music, and
at the end of this “a vigorous talk-song style called rap became extremely
popular among urban black teenagers” (”Rock Music”, Encarta, p.1.).
Rock music taught me to appreciate things in a different way. I’ve learned
this since rock is not an exact science, it can change. In fact Rock music
helps me relax ( I would have been able to finish writing this essay with
rock music). After writing this essay I have learned the origins of rock
and the branches of it, but that wasn’t my intention. I wrote this essay to
express myself with it because I feel I can show myself with rock music. I
think rock has become social phenomenal.
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