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  Rock and roll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rock and roll (also spelled rock 'n' roll, especially in its first decade), is a genre of music that emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s.
Early rock and roll combined elements of blues, boogie woogie, jazz and rhythm and blues, and is also influenced by traditional Appalachian folk music, gospel and country and western.
Rocking was a term first used by gospel singers in the American South to mean something akin to spiritual rapture.
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Rock and roll, also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles.
Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be seen in rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s.
The culmination of rock and roll as a socially-unifying force was seen in the rock festivals of the late '60s, the most famous of which was Woodstock which began as a three-day arts and music festival and turned into a "happening", as hundreds of thousands of youthful fans converged on the site.
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 Encyclopedia: Pub rock (Australia)
Art rock is a sub-genre of rock music that is characterized by ambitious lyrical themes and melodic or rhythmic experimentation, often extending beyond standard pop song forms and toward influences in jazz, classical, or the avant garde.
Cello rock is a genre of music characterized by the use of cellos and other stringed instruments such as violin and viola to create a sound, beat, and texture similar to that of rock music.
Glitter rock, a short-lived genre in the mid-1970s, was an extreme exploration of the fantasy-side of the reality-fantasy parents of heavy metal.
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 Encyclopedia: Dialect rock
Dialect rock is rock music produced in the Swiss German language as opposed to High German or English.
Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles.
Music genre stubs A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
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 Rock and roll Online Research :: Information about Rock and roll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Rock and roll (also spelled rock 'n' roll, especially in its first decade), is a genre of Music that emerged as a defined musical style in United States in the 1950s.
Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in United States in the 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be heard in Rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s.
Early rock and roll combined elements of Blues, Boogie woogie (music), Jazz and Rhythm and blues, and is also influenced by traditional Appalachian folk music, Gospel music and Country music.
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 Hard_rock
Hard Rock is often loosely defined, and is primarily of use in describing radio station formats.
Jazz, Blues, and rock and roll were the roots of hard rock.
Punk rock, Gothic rock, industrial music, heavy metal, funk, and fusion also claim these roots, but branch off at different points, eliminating elements that are considered unnecessary, and adding elements to typify their genre.
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 dialect - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about dialect
In that case, the standard language of a community is not seen as a dialect itself, but as the proper form of that language, dialects being considered in some way corrupt.
Certain processes create a social and linguistic distance between the standard form of a language, as with Standard English and its dialects, in particular its prevailing use as a medium of education and in printing and broadcasting.
French, that dialect of it which was spoken by the Normans--Anglo-French (English-French) it has naturally come to be called--was of course introduced by the Conquest as the language of the governing and upper social class, and in it also during the next three or four centuries a considerable body of literature was produced.
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 Post-rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Originally used to describe the music of such bands as Stereolab, Disco Inferno, Seefeel, Bark Psychosis and Pram, it spread out to be frequently used for all sorts of jazz- and Krautrock-influenced, instrumental, electronica-added music made after 1994.
Bands such as My Bloody Valentine are often referred to as post-rock thanks to the overuse of the term when categorizing rock bands with a more experimental edge to them.
Closely related to post-rock is the genre known as Math rock, characterized by more percussive timbres, more dissonant harmonic gestures, and more prog-influenced arrangements.
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Rock, born in the United States, has become popular across the globe, and has evolved into a multitude of highly-varying styles.
The genre of rock and roll is broad, and its boundaries loosely-defined.
The influence of rock and roll is far-reaching, and has had significant impact worldwide on fashion, film styles, and attitudes towards sex and sexuality and use of drugs and alcohol.
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The dialect of the Southern Bear is closest to the dialects spoken by the Cord and the Petun, the first 'Wendat' to move north into the area of Georgian Bay.
The Northern Bear dialect is similar to that of the Rock, a group which moved north late in the sixteenth century, pointing to their own relatively late arrival into historic Huronia.
Dialect analysis presented here reveals the following: first, that a tribe within the Huron alliance, the Bear, was not ethnically one group but two, a fact that helps to explain certain events of the 163 Os.
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Rock and roll, also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony backing), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles.
Elvis played a rock and country and western fusion called rockabilly, and he became possibly the first celebrity musician and teen idol.
By the late 1980s rock radio was dominated by aging classic rock artists, slick commercial pop-rock and hair metal; MTV had arrived and brought with it a perception that style was more important than substance.
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 Diamond Dialect Records - index page - Free MP3 downloads, CDs, Bio Info, Tour Dates, Lyrics and More!"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Diamond Dialect Records is definitely the independent label to watch in 2003.
Diamond Dialect Records is determined to bring the prolific and poetic rhyme style that made hip hop what it is today back to the forefront.
Diamond Dialect records was started in 2002 as an avenue for hip hop artist to reach the masses.
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 Southern rock - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Rock music's origins lie mostly in the music of southerners, and many stars from the first wave of 1950s rock and roll such as Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis hailed from the Deep South.
But the British Invasion, and the rise of folk rock and psychedelic rock in the middle 1960s, shifted the focus of new rock music away from the rural south and to large cities like Liverpool, London, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
This branch of Southern rock's use of Southern imagery, in particular the Confederate Rebel Flag, and lyrics seemingly extolling redneck values drew considerable criticism and derision.
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 Surf_rock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is characterized by being nearly entirely instrumental and by heavy use of reverb on the guitars.
Instrumental rock band The Ventures also had a number of surf hits, their most widely known being "Walk Don't Run".
Spy Rock is a subgenre of surf rock featuring similarly complex melodies, usually set in minor keys, evocative of film noir.
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 Music Morsels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
From the rocking "Flight to Ecstacy" to the funk groove of "Little Sunflower" and back alley shuffle of "Sundown Blues" these four axe slingers create instrumental music that is sweet one moment and blistering the next.
Rock solid rhythms and down and dirty keyboard work further enhance the songs which are well written but also have a comforting simplicity.
Hard rocking Madison, WI radio station once again delivers a blistering collection of local and regional rock with their fifth compilation.
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 J-Rock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Japanese rock is a form of popular music, often abbreviated to "J-Rock" in much the same way that "J-Pop" is used as an abbreviation of Japanese Pop.
Psychedelic rock was invented in the 1960s by American and British counterculture figures.
At the same time, radical progressive rock was evolving, with distinctly Japanese bands like After Dinner and YB02, Kenso and KoenjiHyakkei.
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 Read about Glam rock at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Glam rock and learn about Glam rock here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Glam is also the lead singer of the glam rock group Wig Wam.
Glam rock (less commonly glitter rock), a style of rock music popularized in the 1970s, was mostly a British phenomenon and confined to larger cities in the U.S., such as New York and
Alice Cooper sketched the first hints of glam rock when they used a transvestite look and an overtly sexual attitude as part of their outrageousness.
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The emphasis was on superficiality and an unabashed embracing of fame and wealth, a statement of sorts against such acts as Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Yes and Genesis, whose music was often referred to by critics as art rock.
Although credit for starting the trend in Britain is often given to Gary Glitter and his band, it was probably Roxy Music, headed by former art teacher Bryan Ferry who led the field, though they avoided the excesses of many of their imitators.
Glam rock was a major influence upon the late 1970s UK punk rock movement, particularly the Sex Pistols.
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 Dialect Rock Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Dialect rock is rock music produced in the Swiss German as opposed to standard German or English.
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 The Rock And Roll Group Of Bread   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
...rock - Country rock - Desert rock - Detroit rock - Dialect rock - Garage rock - Girl group...
Rock and roll (also spelled rock 'n' roll, especially in...
Access this comedic guide to rock and roll band group pictures, complete with witty remarks on fashion style and haircuts.
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 The History of Rock Music - The Eighties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This "college pop" had its roots in the folk-rock style of the early 1960s and in the sprightly country-rock of the early 1970s, but it was contaminated by the fears and the neuroses of the age.
It was, finally, a shift from the mythology of the uneducated loser/loner to the mythology of the educated college kid.
Dogbowl (12), the project of former King Missile's guitarist Stephen Tunney, used the rock opera Tit (1989) as a pretext to unleash his mad imagination in a carousel of arrangements that relied on odd juxtapositions and unlikely relations.
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In the late 60s Jeff Beck revolutionised the blues rock into a sort of Heavy Rock, taking the UK and the USA by storm with his band, The Jeff Beck Group with among the members a young Rod Stewart on vocals and an even younger Ronnie Wood on bass.
Blues rock has since been a smouldering fire that still has its influence, see for example The Black Crowes.
While rock and blues have always been historically closely linked, blues-rock as a distinct genre did not arise until the late 1960s.
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 Read about Dialect rock at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Dialect rock and learn about Dialect rock here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Research Dialect rock and learn about Dialect rock here!
1973 saw the first commercial release of dialect rock with
Rumpelstilz's "Warehuus Blues"; the band broke into the mainstream in 1976 with the release of the
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 swissmusic - Pop Rock - Anthology
The appearance of the number-one hit single 'Heavenly Club' by Les Sauterelles in the charts during the summer of 1968 marked the climax as well as the end of the early rock ’n’ roll (known as 'beat music') boom in Switzerland.
Arrogant, boring, elitist, abstruse, archaic!”: the vehement reaction of bass player Klaudia Schifferle of Kleenex, Switzerland’s first major all-woman band, when journalist Bob Fischer dared to refer to the 'artistic statement' inherent in the band’s music.
As was typical in France, Switzerland’s neighbor to the west, the new Anglo-American sounds were given native French texts and then recorded as singles, but there was not much activity beyond this.
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 Cello rock - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
They are often combined with other elements typical of rock music such as rock-style vocals and rock-style drumming.
Cello rock has been developing slowly over the years, with its direct influences dating as far back as the 1930s in Russia and Germany.
The popularity of Cello rock is steadily on the rise, as artists such as Metallica and Marilyn Manson lend support to the fledgling groups, though the genre still lies mostly in the dark in the United States music scene.
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 rock cello ballad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Verbow`s pairing of guitar, cello redefines rock standards,, The Lantern, a newspaper of Ohio State...
Aaron Minsky, is a famous rock cellist who went from rock guitar to classical cello to rock cello.
Art rock - Cello rock - Country rock - Desert rock - Detroit rock - Dialect rock - Garage rock - Girl group - Glam rock - Glitter rock - Hard rock...
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