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Popular Culture [Monday, February 19, 7th period]
Rose looked exhausted and probably mortified. She cleared her throat and began, "Rock 'n' roll, this we have to thank the Americans for, or as some uptight people in my country would say, those bloody colonials. Rock started out in the late 40's but hit its popularity during the 1950s. Out of all the music genres this was and still remains, the most controversial popular music of this era. Since most of the songs rock'n'roll are about sex, drugs, guns and depression. Rock became a popular music for rebels and a more casual approach to music.
Rose played a few Beatle songs from the Abbey Road album and grinned while bobbing her head. She shut it off. "There are a profusion of bands now, all from different sets and all spanning the globe. But what you all have to understand is how BIG rock is. It changed everything, rock did. As I said earlier, rock was, is controversial. It's been connected to anti-establishment movements, rebels *and* the reason for ushering in the popularity of drugs an' alcohol. There's a reason why the catchphrase 'sex, drugs and rock'n'roll' is famous and that's one of it. There is not a single music genre that has this big an outcome in recent memory. Rock influenced fashion and living, it influenced a whole generation. The 1970s. It still continues to influence our generation."
"Rock'n'roll is not just music, it's a cultural icon in itself. For today, I want you all to put your thinkin' caps on and imagine what it's like living in the era of Rock era, how do you think rock'n'roll influenced, would influence your life?"
(Please wait for OCD up!)
The popularity of rock'n'roll can be attributed to a bloke called Alan Freed, a radio disk jockey who organized the first rock concert. To no one's surprise but to the people of that time, it was a success, it crossed race barriers and after that night, rock crossed boundaries reaching across the Atlantic and into Britain, where the Beatles were introduced. But Before the Beatles were ever a glitter in the eye, there was the King. Or precisely, there was Elvis Presley, billed as the King of Rock 'n' roll. This bloke, changed the face of rock everyone was fawning over him and to this day people still worship on the altar of Elvis."
Rose clicked on her iPod and the strains of Elvis singing Jailhouse Rock then clicked it off.
"This of course led to a number of copy cats each bringing something new to rock. The international status of rock also opened the doors for the so-called British Invasion, where a wave of homegrown Brit talents took advantage of the rock scene. Dusty Springfield was the first to crack the doors open but it was the Beatles in 1964 who blew the door open. The Beatles are legend, songs still brilliant. Not that Dusty isn't, I love her but the Beatles, they were a class on their own. They even have their own term for the craziness they inspired -- Beatlemania."
Rose clicked on her iPod and the strains of Elvis singing Jailhouse Rock then clicked it off.
"This of course led to a number of copy cats each bringing something new to rock. The international status of rock also opened the doors for the so-called British Invasion, where a wave of homegrown Brit talents took advantage of the rock scene. Dusty Springfield was the first to crack the doors open but it was the Beatles in 1964 who blew the door open. The Beatles are legend, songs still brilliant. Not that Dusty isn't, I love her but the Beatles, they were a class on their own. They even have their own term for the craziness they inspired -- Beatlemania."
Rose played a few Beatle songs from the Abbey Road album and grinned while bobbing her head. She shut it off. "There are a profusion of bands now, all from different sets and all spanning the globe. But what you all have to understand is how BIG rock is. It changed everything, rock did. As I said earlier, rock was, is controversial. It's been connected to anti-establishment movements, rebels *and* the reason for ushering in the popularity of drugs an' alcohol. There's a reason why the catchphrase 'sex, drugs and rock'n'roll' is famous and that's one of it. There is not a single music genre that has this big an outcome in recent memory. Rock influenced fashion and living, it influenced a whole generation. The 1970s. It still continues to influence our generation."
"Rock'n'roll is not just music, it's a cultural icon in itself. For today, I want you all to put your thinkin' caps on and imagine what it's like living in the era of Rock era, how do you think rock'n'roll influenced, would influence your life?"
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