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| | LECTURE 27: Rock |
 | | Rock is the most important musical genre of the past 50 years, because it has gone beyond being a mere musical style to influence politics, commerce, fashion, and even vocabulary. |
 | | Nobody is more acutely aware of this fact than the musicians themselves, who are constantly being reminded of it by their record company, their peers, the press (if they read their reviews), and, of course, mostly importantly, by the consumer. |
 | | Jazz-rock has a rock orientation, predominantly vocal, with the jazz influence being mainly in the realm of instrumentation (adding a 'horn section' of trumpet, sax and/or trombone), and the addition of subtle jazz harmonies, unusual meters, changing meters, and complex rhythms. |
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