Music Test 2
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- 1954 Supreme Court Ruling
- "A separate but equal education is unconstitutional" This was the legal beginning of integration and the Civil Rights Movement
- Race music
- refers to music by Black artists - difficult for them to get recordings or airplay on radio simply because of racial prejudice and fear
- Elvis
- born in Tupelo, Mississippi
- Buddy Holly
- experimented with double tracking, wrote his own songs;
- MoTown
- refers to Detroit - "motor town" where the cars are built
- Chuck Berry
- invented the "duck walk" onstage, tons of hit songs;
- Folk Music
- used acoustic instruments (pure), no electric instruments, no forceful rhythm/backbeat
- 60s dance craze
- (twist, jerk, monkey, mashed potato, surf, hitchhiker, etc) involved bands playing music specific to the tempo that the dance required + some songs had instructions on how to DO the dance in the lyrics of the song - these were rock bands - no acoustic guitars
- Joan Baez
- folk singer, protest song singer, introduced Bob Dylan at Newport Folk Festival- gave him the endorsement and credibility due to her central role in the peace movement during the Vietnam War
- Rockabilly
- a mix of Appalachian/country/rock n roll - Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis were all a part of that sound in its early days
- Bill Haley and the Comets
- were originally called The Saddlemen- a C&W band
- Ed Sullivan Show and American Bandstand
- (New York) and American Bandstand (Philadelphia) were two important TV venues on which bands who wanted to become household names had to perform
- Sam Phillips
- recording studio (released a lot of Black artists' music - took courage at the time): Sun Records
- Hootenannys
- were folk singer get-togethers, guitars, everyone singing in unison
- Don McClean
- wrote American Pie in memoriam to Buddy Holly, JP Richardson[the Big Bopper], and Richie Valens - all killed in a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa
- "Skiffle"
- refers to British rock n roll craze which was a mix of 50s rock n roll & British folk music - this is different than what the film we watched says
- Pete Seeger
- folk singer/composer; We Shall Overcome, Give Peace a Chance, If I Had a Hammer, Turn-Turn-Turn "black-balled" during the McCarthy Era for communist learnings- protest songs/anthems for social movements (peace marches, rallies, Civil Rights movement, etc)
- Pop teen idols
- like Paul Anka, Fabian, Bobby Vinton, Bobby Vee, Bobby Darin were marketed because they were "handsome", safe, sang simple teenage love songs - nothing dangerous
- Little Richard
- considered the purest prototype of Rock music
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- (rock piano player) married his 13 year old cousin; Elvis drafted; Chuck Berry in jail for transporting an underage girl across state lines - rock n roll seemed to be disappearing
- Top 40 radio
- was commercial laden, short songs, interruptive DJs - they never played entire albums or entire sides of albums
- Chubby Checker
- the twist- not a rock pioneer because he just "covered" a popular song - he didnt invent
- Grand Ole Opry
- in Nashville didnt allow drums/many country bands in the day didnt use drummers of that impediment to possibly not being allowed on the show. Like Ed Sullivan and American Bandstand, Grand Ole Opry was the portal through which country bands had to pass
- Kingston Trio
- takes their name from the capital of Jamaica. Even though they were a folk trio, their music having nothing to do with Jamaican music/Rasta, ska/reggae - they did have a light Caribbean flavor
- "Rebel Without a Cause"
- movie with James Dean that dealt with the plight of the American teenager, generation gap, misunderstood trials of young America
- Beatles
- biggest influence was new, adventurous harmonies that created possibilities for more complex melodic writing
- Beach Boys
- Brian Wilson (mastermind) used complex studio tricks for their albums, surf band- strong force in the California recording scene
- Dress codes
- established in schools, attempting to control teenagers and keep them from decadent behaviors connected with rock music