Speakers were once again strategically located around the classroom but this time there was no music. Yet.
"Hey, guys," Rose greeted, "so I hoped you lot enjoyed the last class because we're going to be tackling music a lot today. Today we're going to be tacklin' rock music. Since its entrance it has remained to be one of the most popular and sometimes controversial type of music from its origins to the way some band members conduct themselves. So, depending on the context, tellin' someone they act like a rockstar can be an insult or a compliment. Why? Well, it's no secret most rockstars have acted a bit bizarre: y'know sticking chairs and other furniture on the ceiling, trashing a hotel room and other things. 'Course these days that kind of behaviour aren't limited to rockstars like, say someone whose name rhymes with kidney..."
Rose shook her head, "Sorry, back to topic. 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 turned up the volume and
Jailhouse Rock could be heard.
"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
Beatles 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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