Essays Tagged: "Rock and roll"
Art from Marcel Duchamp all the way to Andy Warhol
opening new forms such as dada and pop art. There was also people staring to experiment with drugs, rock and roll and sex, all helping them express themselves in there art and writing, such as the bea ... produced images like 'sing sing electric chair'. Warhol also helped get one of the most inportants rock and role bands on there feet 'the Velvet Underground'. He helped produce thre Album 'Velvet Und ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
"The Art of Rock and Roll" by Charles T. Brown
Book Report: The Art of Rock and Roll The book "The Art of Rock and Roll" by Charles T. Brown basically proposesmetho ... le to developtechniques for listening to music and making legitimate statements about it. It treats rockand roll as a serious art form and traces it cultural roots throughout the book. Chapter ... form and traces it cultural roots throughout the book. Chapter one discusses the elements of rock and makes four assumptions.Assumption one states that rock is a legitimate art form. An art for ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Franz Liszt vs. Kurt Cobain
Franz Liszt was one of many classical composers. In some ways, he can be compared to a modern rock and roll star.Franz Liszt was born in Raiding, Hungary, on October 22, 1811. Much like Mozart, ... zed for a nervous breakdown. In some ways he was much like Kurt Cobain, the late lead singer of the rock band Nirvana.Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967, in Aberdeen, Washington. He was passed ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
The Roots of Blues Music
that you hear today has some form of blues in it. If it wasn't for the blues there wouldn't be any rock and roll, country, rap, pop, or jazz . Blues is also important for African American culture. Af ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Industrial Music
Rock and roll is dead. It's a fact. During the eighties romp of technoand fashion bands, people forg ... people forgot all about it. In the late eighties and earlynineties alternative music tried to save rock and roll, but it was too big of acategory. If a band didn't sing country or rap, they were cons ... very alternative band had their own idea of music, and it allspreadapart, running farther away from rock. Finally, when alternative becamemoredefined and broke off into categories, one specific type o ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
The Beatles
3 that younger generationmad. Perhaps it was because they were one of the first bands everplay real rock and roll music; or maybe it was those cute little peacoats theywore. Or maybe it was just becau ... eatles were a band that shaped a generation and ones soon to come.The Beatles were more than just a rock and roll band , they were agroup of young men who wanted to go a new direction in music. JohnLe ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Progression of music in america since the 1940's
d from Ballads (which were still lingering around from the 30's) to blues (popular among Blacks) to rock and roll, to pop, and back again. In the 1940's ballads were popular. Ballads were danca ... entering the home. (Hays) The 50's marked a beginning for a new era of music to be known as Rock & Roll. Many of the artists took advantage of the Electric guitar, developed for popular mu ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
The Grateful Dead
I have chosen to do my report on the Grateful Dead. They were a rock and roll band from the sixties that stayed popular and still influenced rock and roll until 199 ... r Dead line up.The Warlocks played their first concert in July 1965 and they played pretty straight rock and roll music until the 'acid tests.' In early 1965 a state hospital in the Palo Alto area was ... headed to Woodstock, New York. This outdoor concert would go down in history as the largestoutdoor rock concert. On August 16, 1969, the Grateful Dead, along with many famous rock and roll groups, pl ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Great rock musicians
Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements and Effect on Rock and Roll The blues are undeniably the r ... : Their Achievements and Effect on Rock and Roll The blues are undeniably the roots of early rock and roll. Rock today has mutated so much that the basic blues patterns have been all but lost. ... een all but lost. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the birth of, and evolution of rock and roll by focusing on three of the arguably greatest rock musicians of the sixties and sevent ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Eddie Vedder is a Vampire?
Although at first he may seem to be just your average angst ridden lead man for a popular rock and roll band, Eddie Vedder, the vocalist and lyricist for Pearl Jam, may very well be a vampir ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
This essay is about the history of Rock and Roll and how it changed society.
Rock and Roll- A Great Movement in MusicThe type of music that later became known as "rock and roll" ... 0's. It was a combination of jazz, rhythm and blues, country, and gospel sounds. One of the reasons rock and roll was said to have such a great impact on society at the time was mainly due to the fact ... in particular the South, was segregated, with blacks on one side and whites on the other. However, rock musicians were both black and white, and listeners really didn't seem to care what color the pe ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
This essay exaplins how and why elvis influenced American Music.
for the most part, seldom agree on matters of the arts. Nevertheless, if asked to name the King of rock and roll, they will chant, in unison, "Elvis Presley!" While most will assign Presley as the fa ... y!" While most will assign Presley as the father of rock, in actuality, they are terribly mistaken. Rock and roll, a musical style that combines the likes of rhythm and blues and country western, was ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Influence of Rock Music on Society
Influence of Rock Music on SocietyThroughout history major social transformations have taken place that have chan ... rts of the United States. The most influential form of music spread across the nation is unarguably rock and roll. Rock and roll is the fusion of several distinct types of music; an unlikely collabora ... pes of music; an unlikely collaboration of artists and styles that had existed prior to the 1950's. Rock and roll's unique sound is a blend of the blues, country, folk and pop. The fact that rock was ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Life and struggles of Jerry Garica.
st, they had a jug band going, but at the start of 1965, Pigpen was able to convince Jerry to put a rock and roll band together...the Grateful Dead.The Dead started attracting a major following from t ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
The Military Man.
m either when he left, or swears to be waiting when he returns from half a world away.He listens to rock and roll or hip-hop or rap or jazz or swing and 155mm Howitzers.He is 10 or 15 pounds lighter n ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The Ramones-Research Paper.
ca's first punk bands were The Ramones. Their first four albums set the blueprint for American punk rock. The Ramones had a huge impact on American society during the 1970s.There are many reasons why ... that The Ramones were the first band to use a lot of new musical ideas. They were the first to cut rock and roll down to its bare essentials, which was four chords, a simple melody and incredibly cat ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
What is Rock'n'Roll music.
Rock and Roll musicRock and Roll started after the year 1955 with its roots being in Blues, Gospel, ... per, Wayne S, 1997). This music was carried on radio and popular with the disc jockeys.1950's, when Rock n' Roll was born. It emerged from rhythm and blues, music similar to jazz played by blacks. Thi ... enagers. 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 w ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
The Last Innocent Year.
t, Vietnam, Flower Children, Riots, Women's Lib, Free Love, Hippies, the Grateful Dead, Drugs, Sex, Rock and Roll, the Beatles, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy... these are all words and people who bri ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Elvis Presley : The Cultural Icon
nniversary of Elvis death, millions of people worldwide still pay tribute to their beloved "King of Rock and Roll". Known to the world only by his first name, Elvis is one of the most important figure ... mportant figures in American twentieth century popular music. He almost single-handedly popularized rock and roll music by blending white country music with black rhythm and blues on an international ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
Look at the opening sequence of Baz Luhrmann's film version of 'Romeo and Juliet'. Analyse this scene and discuss the techniques the director uses to convey his interpretation of the text.
ed to make this film palatable for young viewers. To this end, he outfitted his characters in gaudy rock-and-roll leather-and-lace clothes, transported them from Verona, Italy to the seedy Verona Beac ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis