Essays Tagged: "rock musicians"
Great rock musicians
Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements and Effect on Rock and Roll The blues are undeniably the r ... ments 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. The pur ... 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
The Beatles Their life and music.
would eventually replace Sutcliffe and Best) The "Beatles" started as just another teenage British rock group, but they slowly worked their way up to become one of the most influential groups in Rock ... nager, discovered them. At this time the members were not the ones who later became the most famous rock musicians in the world. The drummer was Pete Best, and the bass player, a friend of Johns, was ...
Subjects: Art Essays
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
Jimi Hendrix Listening guides: technique, style, examples, musical influences, etc.
udy of the music of Jimi Hendrix)Jimi Hendrix, born James Marshall Hendrix in 1942, was an American rock guitarist, singer, and composer who fused traditions of blues, jazz, rock, and soul with techni ... singer, and composer who fused traditions of blues, jazz, rock, and soul with techniques of British rock to redefine the electric guitar in his own image. Jimi's impact on music, Pop in-particular, ha ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Music in politics
in Britain and the growth of white nationalist groups such as the National Front in the 1970s, RAR (Rock Against Racism) was established. Pop, reggae, rock musicians participated in this campaign in o ... ww.cbu.edu/Academics/honors/hj2k3_music.htmShuker, Roy. "Raising Consciousness, Raising Money" Rock and Cultural Politics 1999.
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies