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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 the Southern United States in the 1950s, and quickly spread to the rest of the country, and the world (rhythm sample).
In the early rock and roll style of the early 1950s, the saxophone was often the lead instrument, replaced by guitar in the late 50's.
Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be heard in rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s(citation needed).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rock_and_roll   (2902 words)

  
 Rock music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rock is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars, a bass guitar, and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as keyboards (organ, piano synthesizers) and brass (trumpet, trombone) are common in some styles, however, brass has been omitted from newer subgenres of rock music since the 1990s.
Rock and roll was seen as commercial pop, but subverted the race barriers in the U.S., and with the British invasion the reverence of groups for fl Rhythm and blues stars brought these stars a wider public.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rock_music   (6823 words)

  
 Rock and roll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Rock and Roll emerged as a defined style in America in the 1950s though elements of rock and roll be seen in rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s.
Early rock and roll combined elements blues boogie woogie jazz and rhythm and blues and is also influenced by traditional folk music gospel music fl and white and country and western.
Rock musicians were early adopters of hippie fashion and introduced such styles as Nehru jacket; bands such as the Beatles custom-made clothing that influenced much of '60s As rock music genres became more segmented an artist wore became as important as music itself in defining the intent and to the audience.
www.freeglossary.com /Rock_and_roll   (5153 words)

  
 Rock and Roll
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.
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.
American rock and roll had an impact across the globe, perhaps most intensely in the United Kingdom, where record collecting and trend-watching were in full bloom among the youth culture prior to the rock era, and where color barriers were less of an issue.
www.freemusiclink.com /rock.htm   (5705 words)

  
 DAA: DIY: Rock and Roll in the 1990s
DAA: DIY: Rock and Roll in the 1990s
Rock and roll is about passion, however subdued, yet irony crept into 90s rock and roll, even into some of the most talented rockers out there, and irony rarely goes with passion.
Most of rock and roll is disposable, always will be, but the best of rock and roll still seems to come from the garage or the bedroom, it will never come from the classroom or conservatory.
www.dancingaboutarc.com /reviews/1999/decadeessay.html   (2332 words)

  
 Paly Voice: Hendrix, Santana highlight list of top-10 rock albums
This album is the work of a Latin genius during times of war, social realignment and civil rights advancements, and the music reflects all the tumult and passion of the times.
The album was the second concept album in rock 'n roll history and it was also the first album to contain art on the album cover as well as the first album to have lyrics in the album cover.
In response to the observation that "Nevermind" is absent from this list, Mr.
voice.paly.net /view_story.php?id=2391   (2878 words)

  
 MP3.com: Sabbath, Skynyrd, Pistols hit Hall
Rock legends are joined by jazz icon Miles Davis and New Wave group Blondie as 2006 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
A short list of nominees is sent to an international body of about 700 "rock experts," according to organizers, and they vote for a handful of contenders.
Artists are eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25 years after the release of their first album.
www.mp3.com /stories/2508.html   (1092 words)

  
 Rating List
Bodhisattva albums are characterized by their extremity: like the deepest truths, they are beautiful or excruciating, or, most often, beautiful and excruciating at once.
Great set list for the 1986 festival drawn primarily from Desyat' Strel (indeed for all I know the versions of Tramvai, Khozyain and Kamenniy Ugol may be one and the same), while the 1987 set is mostly songs that never made it onto albums.
It lets you cycle through the album, the list of songs, the individual lyrics, etc., and includes an interview and a history, but it’s sometimes difficult to switch from song to song and the versions you hear may not be the album versions.
www.dharmafish.org /album_rating.htm?rating=5   (2770 words)

  
 Crosswalk.com - The Verdict is in: "Rock & Roll is Here to Stay."
Turn on the radio, pick up a music magazine or check concert listings, and it won’t be long before one fact slams you like a size-12 boot in a mosh pit: Rock and roll feels fresh again.
Witness rock’s big showing in CCM’s latest Readers’ Choice issue (January), which had a more decidedly rock tilt than last year, as it gave awards to Pillar, Sanctus Real and Relient K. And the top three vote-getters for “Favorite Artist” were all bands.
It was in true rock glory all that’s bad and kickin,’ but it had a message about being a freak for the Creator of the universe.
www.crosswalk.com /fun/1255164.html   (2489 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Rock and roll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
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 American South in the 1950s, and quickly spread to the rest of the country, and the world.
Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be heard in rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s.
This primed the United Kingdom to respond creatively to American rock and roll which had an impact across the globe.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/rock_and_roll   (2138 words)

  
 Epinions.com - The 100 Greatest Rock Songs Ever: #'s 60-41
In one four minute blast, everything that was to be loved about the Chilis was revealed, and rock music was all the better for it.
It is at once a tribute and an anthem, and with the opening crunches of those power chords, you can't help but play your air guitar along with it.
While the loud/soft dynamic that was used so masterfully here became overused in no time, this song still stands as one of the songs that used it almost perfectly.
www.epinions.com /content_3149635716   (1104 words)

  
 Top Rock/Pop Artists, Albums, Tracks and Videos on Rhapsody   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
As rock became more ambitious, pop came to denote anything short and sugarcoated with bright melodies and infectious hooks.
Rod the Bod is a rock singer with a gravelly voice and a resume that reads like some kind of Hall of Fame laundry list.
Forever the greatest rock band on the planet, the Stones have turned their bluesy brilliance into a way of life.
www.rhapsody.com /rockpop/more.html   (512 words)

  
 MusicMoz - Styles: Rock: Classic: Links
Musical TimeLine Rock - Biographies, photos, and some audio clips in WAV format for artists from the 1960s to the 1990s, focusing on the 60s and 70s.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Focused on classic rock and roll artists and groups from the 50s and early 60s.
Rock and Roll Never Forgets - The foundation of the classic rock music community that originally began on Prodigy.
musicmoz.org /Styles/Rock/Classic/Links   (736 words)

  
 UVa Music Library: Resources & Finding Aids
The Ultimate Band List claims to be the Web's largest list of interactive music links, with a variety of search methods, including alphabetically, by genre (pop rock, hard rock, jazz, new age, and dance/techno/rap), or by Internet resource.
The History of Rock 'n' Roll is an overview arranged topically and chronologically, from the roots of rock 'n' roll through the garage rock of the 1960's.
Rock Shots is a gallery of rock 'n' roll photography by Niels Van Iperen, filmed on stage, backstage and in other venues.
www.lib.virginia.edu /MusicLib/resources/popular.html   (844 words)

  
 45s.com - The Allman Brothers Band - Recording Artist Information: The Allman Brothers Band - 45 RPM Records -- Search ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
The Allman Brothers Band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Along with the Grateful Dead and Cream, they were also responsible for developing rock as a progressive, improvisational medium, a tangent that took its cues from jazz.
Jamming required a level of technical virtuosity and musical literacy that was theretofore rare in rock and roll, which had always been more of a song-oriented medium.
www.45s.com /Back-Up/allman-brothers-band.htm   (683 words)

  
 Epinions.com - The 100 Greatest Rock Songs Ever: #'s 20-1
I won't sit here and trot out certain songs just because everyone else would have them on their list (*ahem*, Rolling Stones/Beatles, although that's not to say I don't have cliche songs on here).
Rolling Stones: Street Fighting Man: I'm sorry, but Jumpin Jack Flash and Brown Sugar have NOTHING on this song.
Kiss: Rock and Roll All Nite: What is undoubtedly the greatest pure rock and roll anthem ever written and put to record.
www.epinions.com /content_3154944132   (1111 words)

  
 HSU Library - Rock Music Research Guide
Articles on "Rock," "Popular Music," and on individual groups (e.g., The Platters) and major performers (e.g., "Presley, Elvis") are of particular interest.
A list of articles on many aspects of rock music and musicians from books and magazines.
Periodicals List by the name of the journal you want, and check for the date you need.
library.humboldt.edu /~msj/RockMusic.htm   (977 words)

  
 Tower Records - Ten - Pearl Jam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Together, the two albums reinvigorated rock and roll, whose share of the pop marketplace had been slipping through the late 1980s.
But while Nirvana's bruising punk rock was an all-out assault on the classic-rock dinosaur, Pearl Jam's accomplished hard rock was an attack from within the system.
The storyline of the album's breakthrough single, "Jeremy," was typically vague and elusive (despite a highly suggestive video), but the message was not.
www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=1045330   (607 words)

  
 The Top 136 Or So Albums Of The 90s
Tom notes that some of the best songs of the decade never surfaced on an album [quite true] and that "…album-based rock criticism has its own rhetoric, mostly concerned about whether a record will last and where it stands in relation to the established critical pantheon" [especially, and annoyingly, true].
When Tom alludes to ‘album-based rock criticism,’ he also slyly notes that the medium is very much the message.
The album model is not set in stone, but a creation of the technologies and limitations available in the mid-century: how much you could fit on any one side of a vinyl slab, the attendant size of the product and need to create art or design works of that size, and so forth.
www.netcomuk.co.uk /~tewing/ned/nedmain.html   (1774 words)

  
 BreakingNews.ie: U2 in world's greatest rock act list
Led Zeppelin came second, followed by The Rolling Stones in the poll of almost 60,000 rock fans.
The survey of 58,000 listeners also named the 1970s the golden age of rock, followed by the 1960s, the Spandex years of the 1980s and grunge decade the 1990s.
He said: “Pink Floyd are one of the greatest bands in the history of rock and roll.”
www.breakingnews.ie /2005/12/25/story236680.html   (251 words)

  
 1990s Rap, Rock, Country, Pop, Contemporary Folk, Jazz
Chris Whitley's debut album, Living With The Law, was acclaimed by both critics and the popular press.
After the release of their 1996 self-titled debut album, it didn’t take long for Nashville’s groundbreaking country band BR5-49 to move beyond the thriving "Lower Broadway" music scene.
The Grammys 98 - Aretha Franklin, who had already rocked New York's Radio City Music Hall with "Respect", topped herself by stepping in at the last instant for ailing opera star Luciano Pavarotti and blowing everybody away with "Nessun dorma", the hero's big aria from Puccini's Turandot.
www.southernmusic.net /1990.htm   (641 words)

  
 Rock On The Net: VH1: 100 Greatest Artists of Rock & Roll
Rock On The Net: VH1: 100 Greatest Artists of Rock & Roll
VH-1 asked many of today's top music artists to name their choices for the greatest artists in Rock 'n Roll and here's who they came up with (Rock On The Net viewers were also asked to vote from the Top 100 artists, and those results are seen in
Do not duplicate original material without prior consent of Rock On The Net.
www.rockonthenet.com /archive/1998/vh1artists.htm   (98 words)

  
 CD Baby: DAMIEN YOUTH: Phantoms Of Fables
His music is haunting, acoustic rock with a sense of British whimsy akin to Robyn Hitchcock or Donovan.
Last year, I came across a page on Unterberger's website and saw Damien Youth's Sunfield and Surprise Symphony albums listed along side Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects debut record in an All Time Favorite Top Ten Cult Rock Albums of the 1990s list.
I'd been obsessed with British psychedelic groups like Kaleidoscope, Tintern Abbey, and The Move since 2000 and felt excited that a contemporary artist was loving the same sounds that I was.
cdbaby.com /cd/damienyouth   (534 words)

  
 Living on a Thin Line : Crossing Aesthetic Borders with the Kinks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Touted as a British rock institution and ranked #5 on Rolling Stone's list of Top Ten Rock Bands of the Century, The Kinks remain relatively under appreciated by many serious rock music listeners.
These essays illuminate the music and art of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band.
Essays focus on influences, the earliest years, specific albums, the solo work of the brothers Davies, recurring themes and patterns of imagery, their ever-shifting sound, and their working-class roots.
www.rocknrollresearchpress.com /kinkessay.html   (385 words)

  
 Plan 9 - R.E.M. : Out Of Time [Digipak]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Before Nirvana's NEVERMIND closed out the year with the unexpected commercial triumph of grunge rock, R.E.M.'s OUT OF TIME was the sound of alternative music circa 1991.
The smash singles "Losing My Religion"--perhaps the only Top Five US single ever to feature the mandolin as its lead instrument--and "Shiny Happy People" were the commercial face of the album.
Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.48) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."
www.buymusichere.net /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=12&upc=08122739512   (285 words)

  
 JIM DAWSON'S Rock 'n' Roll History Books
Jim Dawson's Rock Around the Clock (Backbeat Books) was released in early July 2005, just in time for the 50th anniversary celebration of Bill Haley and His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" hitting the No. 1 spot in Billboard in early July 1955.
The story of the honking tenor saxophonists and their effect on '50s rock 'n' roll.
This is the story of rock pioneer Buddy Holly and his lasting legacy, as told by his friends, family, co-musicians and people who were influenced by his music.
www.electricearl.com /dawson/index2.html   (817 words)

  
 Glorious Noise Boards - View topic - Top 100 Albums of the 1990s on Pitchfork
Pitchfork (pitchforkmedia.com) is currently doing a best 100 albums of the 1990s.
No matter how much I intrinsically agree with you guys and think that Pitchfork is a breeding ground for uptight music critic fungi bent on ridding the world of their own opinions...
At this point, I think the most pretentious thing they could have done is go for pop music.
www.gloriousnoise.com /bb/viewtopic.php?t=970&view=previous   (407 words)

  
 100 Greatest Rock Albums
The greatest rock musicians of all times
Click here if you prefer the graphic version with liner notes.
Click here for the list of all albums that are rated 8/10 or higher on this website
www.scaruffi.com /music/best100.html   (132 words)

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