Musical roots of rock-n-roll

musical roots of rock'n'roll: folk music: mainly based on English, Scotish, Irish traditional music - music which people entertains - ballads: based on melodies and storylines - about love, war, sailors, soldiers, cycle of seasons - dance music: more rhytmic than ballads - fiddle and accordion - bluegrass: hillbilly - folk music of poor white people - no e - instruments - banjo + mandolin and string bass- about unsuccessful love, homelife, religion - Ballad singers: popular during 1940s / 50s - modern version of old folk ballad - simple melodies - major and modal scale - stories about people and their social problems - Woody Gutherie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, - western swing: during 1930s / 40s as dance music - mixture of folk ballad style tunes and Dixieland or trad jazz - inventor: Bob Willis - fiddle, guitar, bass, drums, saxophone, trumpet, vokals, - country and western: main form of music in the southern states - taking all elements of all the other forms mentioned above - Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter - rhythm and blues: music of black Americans in the 1940s/ 50s - Chuck Berry and Little Richard + others make it popular with white music fans

Die Beatles : Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison - from Liverpool - new mixture of black and white styles - songs in R'n'B and Rock'n'roll style and standard pop-songs - E- gitarren, ( E - Klavier), Schlagzeug, E - Baß - neue Sounds - Verwendung von Elementen der klassischen Musik, Flokore und elektorakustischen Möglichkeiten - begründeten Stilvariationen der Rockmusik - young people wanted - that parents would not like - Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger, Keith Richard, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts - outrageous to please many teenagers - British R'n'B - in the London pubs and clubs - like Beatles adapted the material and added their own flavour and distintive sound - the mix or instrumental balance was muddy and thick - on stage: menacing and sexual Jagger developing a tremendous stage strut and vacant star which enraged adult audiences - followed by other R'n'B-bands, but none had the same thickness of sound coupled with the ability to shock - they encouraged young people to break up of establishment - 1965: Satisfaction - distorted guitars to sound like a brass section - the lyrics which add sthg. new - blend of soul, blues-based instrumentation and aggressive lyrics marked end of British R'n'B and heralded the age of rock - types of rock music: acid rock: major influence: LSD - psychedelic rock (acid rock) - re-create or portray the LSD drug experience and the danger - baroque rock: exists since 1965 - (Yesterday by B. who used string quartett) Disco: started out around 1974 - played in private clubs and discos in NY - important: neither melody nor the instrumentation but the dance value of the rhytm - regular drumm pattern, produced in a studio (PC) - electronic rock: new intrumental sounds are created - 1 instrument: can be distinguide because they are distorted - folk rock: similiar to soft rock - combi of folk elements and rock elements - include the use of drumming styles and e- instruments - popular in 1960s: Peter, Paul and Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Mamas & Papas - soft rock: acoustic instruments with some e - elements - words are important - often used as a contrast in hard rock - Billy Joel - Joe Jackson - Cat Stevens - hard rock: uses 1 or 2 e - guitars, bass guitar, drums, (keyboard) - INXS, Dire Stairs, The Who, Duran Duran, AC/DC - heavy metal: loudest and heaviest type of rock music - all instruments together to create a continuously heavy texture - shouted singing - Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Status Quo - Reggae: rock replaced by reggae in 1968 - Jamaica - Rastafarien - reflection things: struggle against the injustice of corrupt western civilisation - slow rythm is difficult to represent in musical form - techno: usually no life-concerts- studio/computer productions - little text - hammering 4/4 - rap: was first: HipHop - in the Bronx - HipHop: from african traditions (dance) - punk: 1976: change - punk put into words of ordinary young people - lyrics expressed disgust with the society - goverments were corrupt - kids were bored - unemployment meant no future for working-class youth - Sex pistols: designed to shock - the punk guitar is heavily distorted to give a buzz-sound' - simple song-structure

musical roots of rock'n'roll: folk music: mainly based on English, Scotish, Irish traditional music - music which people entertains - ballads: based on melodies and storylines - about love, war, sailors, soldiers, cycle of seasons - dance music: more rhytmic than ballads - fiddle and accordion - bluegrass: hillbilly - folk music of poor white people - no e - instruments - banjo + mandolin and string bass- about unsuccessful love, homelife, religion - Ballad singers: popular during 1940s / 50s - modern version of old folk ballad - simple melodies - major and modal scale - stories about people and their social problems - Woody Gutherie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, - western swing: during 1930s / 40s as dance music - mixture of folk ballad style tunes and Dixieland or trad jazz - inventor: Bob Willis - fiddle, guitar, bass, drums, saxophone, trumpet, vokals, - country and western: main form of music in the southern states - taking all elements of all the other forms mentioned above - Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter - rhythm and blues: music of black Americans in the 1940s/ 50s - Chuck Berry and Little Richard + others make it popular with white music fans

Die Beatles : Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison - from Liverpool - new mixture of black and white styles - songs in R'n'B and Rock'n'roll style and standard pop-songs - E- gitarren, ( E - Klavier), Schlagzeug, E - Baß - neue Sounds - Verwendung von Elementen der klassischen Musik, Flokore und elektorakustischen Möglichkeiten - begründeten Stilvariationen der Rockmusik - young people wanted - that parents would not like - Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger, Keith Richard, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts - outrageous to please many teenagers - British R'n'B - in the London pubs and clubs - like Beatles adapted the material and added their own flavour and distintive sound - the mix or instrumental balance was muddy and thick - on stage: menacing and sexual Jagger developing a tremendous stage strut and vacant star which enraged adult audiences - followed by other R'n'B-bands, but none had the same thickness of sound coupled with the ability to shock - they encouraged young people to break up of establishment - 1965: Satisfaction - distorted guitars to sound like a brass section - the lyrics which add sthg. new - blend of soul, blues-based instrumentation and aggressive lyrics marked end of British R'n'B and heralded the age of rock - types of rock music: acid rock: major influence: LSD - psychedelic rock (acid rock) - re-create or portray the LSD drug experience and the danger - baroque rock: exists since 1965 - (Yesterday by B. who used string quartett) Disco: started out around 1974 - played in private clubs and discos in NY - important: neither melody nor the instrumentation but the dance value of the rhytm - regular drumm pattern, produced in a studio (PC) - electronic rock: new intrumental sounds are created - 1 instrument: can be distinguide because they are distorted - folk rock: similiar to soft rock - combi of folk elements and rock elements - include the use of drumming styles and e- instruments - popular in 1960s: Peter, Paul and Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Mamas & Papas - soft rock: acoustic instruments with some e - elements - words are important - often used as a contrast in hard rock - Billy Joel - Joe Jackson - Cat Stevens - hard rock: uses 1 or 2 e - guitars, bass guitar, drums, (keyboard) - INXS, Dire Stairs, The Who, Duran Duran, AC/DC - heavy metal: loudest and heaviest type of rock music - all instruments together to create a continuously heavy texture - shouted singing - Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Status Quo - Reggae: rock replaced by reggae in 1968 - Jamaica - Rastafarien - reflection things: struggle against the injustice of corrupt western civilisation - slow rythm is difficult to represent in musical form - techno: usually no life-concerts- studio/computer productions - little text - hammering 4/4 - rap: was first: HipHop - in the Bronx - HipHop: from african traditions (dance) - punk: 1976: change - punk put into words of ordinary young people - lyrics expressed disgust with the society - goverments were corrupt - kids were bored - unemployment meant no future for working-class youth - Sex pistols: designed to shock - the punk guitar is heavily distorted to give a buzz-sound' - simple song-structure