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14 September 2024

  • 11:2111:21, 14 September 2024 diff hist +6,384‎ N Metal ‎ Created page with "Heavy Metal overview: to a lot of fans, Heavy Metal is a changeable term. Early Metal bands no longer qualify with our current understanding of Heavy Metal. But broadly speaking, Metal is louder, and "harder" (i.e., more distortion in the guitars, vocals, louder drums, more complications in rhythms, faster playing, repetitive riffs) and, lyrically, about hard topics like violence, suicide, rebellion, and anger. Basically rock with the soft edges removed. One of the firs..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:1511:15, 14 September 2024 diff hist +18‎ Main Page ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:1511:15, 14 September 2024 diff hist +49‎ N Your Genre Here! ‎ Created page with "Put in your favorite artist and their genre here:" Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:1511:15, 14 September 2024 diff hist +15‎ N Country resurgence ‎ Created page with "No content yet." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:1411:14, 14 September 2024 diff hist +20‎ N Indie Rock, Emo ‎ Created page with "No Content here yet." Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:1411:14, 14 September 2024 diff hist +54‎ N Mainstream Pop ‎ Created page with "No content here yet. Will add BritPop to this as well." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:1311:13, 14 September 2024 diff hist +15‎ N College Rock ‎ Created page with "No content yet." Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:0911:09, 14 September 2024 diff hist +12,860‎ N Grunge, Alternative ‎ Created page with "this discussion is really a continuation of Discussion 17 - Glam Rock & Punk - as the roots of grunge and 90s alternative rock can all be traced back to the punk movement. I was always a little fuzzy on the distinction between Grunge and Alternative: Alternative is supposedly a subcategory of grunge. To my ears, it was a little bit more radio friendly, slightly more refined, while maintaining links to the grunge sound. In the beginning of the "alternative" era, bands lik..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:0711:07, 14 September 2024 diff hist +15‎ N 1980s Synth-Pop ‎ Created page with "No content yet." Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:0711:07, 14 September 2024 diff hist +2‎ Main Page ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:0611:06, 14 September 2024 diff hist +44‎ Main Page ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:0411:04, 14 September 2024 diff hist +3,264‎ N Rise of Punk, New Wave ‎ Created page with "<nowiki>**</nowiki>Punk*** Punk rock can be considered as the ultimate rebellion of most forms of post-1960s mainstream rock and society in general, and as the ultimate extension of the harder side of blues rock started by the Stones, other blues bands, and mainstream rock. Punk, in a description, is louder, faster, simpler, and more repetitive. Punk rockers eschewed technically demanding instrumental solos, and took lyrics that become more directly gross and shocking,..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:0311:03, 14 September 2024 diff hist +5,423‎ N Glam Rock ‎ Created page with "Glam Rock (or, roots of Punk, Alternative, 80s Metal, and more). Glam Rock (or Glitter Rock, as it was known in the US) was a conscious counter reaction to the complexities and hetero-normative values of art rock and much of the mainstream rock of the 1960s. We've already encountered some of the offshoots of the glam rock movement in the UK in earlier units. Specifically, Elton John was all about the costumes and sequins and glamor, but also wrote what should be conside..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 11:0211:02, 14 September 2024 diff hist +9,522‎ N Dance & Disco ‎ Created page with "The Return of Dance Music At the beginning of the rock revolution, it was assumed that every rock song was a song that should be danced to (think "Rock Around the Clock", "Hound Dog", etc...). Then the Beatles and other bands went with styles that were meant for listening and not dancing, so there was a countering dance craze for a few years, with Chubby Checker's "The Twist" being the most famous example. But that died out fairly quickly, and as we've seen, the later j..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:5810:58, 14 September 2024 diff hist +4,279‎ N Queen ‎ Created page with "One of the bands left out of the previous week's discussions was Queen. I regard Queen about as highly as the Beatles. My personal introduction to Queen, was from the Bohemian Rhapsody scene Links to an external site. in the 1992 movie Wayne's World, and from their 1985 and 1986 live aid concerts. Specifically when Freddy Mercury (originally named: Farrokh Bulsara, born in Zanzibar) had complete control of the crowd for clapping in Radio Ga Ga, and then lead the crowd in..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:5510:55, 14 September 2024 diff hist +10,220‎ N Fragmentation ‎ Created page with "Despite having said there were not really new styles in the 1970s, two new styles that developed that we will cover in separate topics were heavy metal and rap. But we will get into those later. For now, we will look at the fragmentation of styles in the 70s. Really, these styles were either evolutions of the 1960s styles, and somewhat hard to distinguish, or combinations of styles, which are also hard to distinguish. If done in the style of previous posts, there would..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:4310:43, 14 September 2024 diff hist +13,568‎ N Mainstream ‎ Created page with "As happens when any new product hits the market, rock was initially an "either you like it or you don't" kind of music - it was easy for super stars like Elvis or the Beatles to become the "it" thing. But by the 1970s, as we've seen with the art rock and jazz rock and acid rock and all that, the "genre" had exploded into many many many different categories. This was somewhat paralleled by culture. Look at the choices in TV channels - we went from 3 channels to up to 40 w..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:4210:42, 14 September 2024 diff hist +9,346‎ N Art Rock & Jazz Rock ‎ Created page with "Rock at this point has evolved a lot from Bill Haley's "Rock around the Clock". We've heard classical elements in the Beatles and others with instruments generally used in classical music. But at this point, rock is still considered to be a simple form of entertainment, and not considered by many to be real major works of art, at least not along the lines of a major symphony composition, which could run 45 minutes to 2 hours. Nor was it considered a major form of art th..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:4110:41, 14 September 2024 diff hist +16‎ Main Page ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:4110:41, 14 September 2024 diff hist +7,025‎ N San Francisco/Acid Rock ‎ Created page with "One of the enduring images of the 1960s was the "flower power" and psychedelic imagery, with tie-dyed shirts and the whole "drop out and turn on" idea.  San Francisco and, by extension, the Bay area in Northern California became the epicenter of this new movement. Counter-culture youth flocked to the area to escape traditional ways of life, and one of big destinations was the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco. This was a scene where all sorts of drugs were da..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:4010:40, 14 September 2024 diff hist +6,245‎ N Soul & Motown ‎ Created page with "Otis Redding "I am not a blues singer or an R&B singer, I'm a soul singer. We go into the studio without any-thing prepared, just record what come out. That's soul - the way you feel" - Otis Redding I've Been Loving You Too Long Respect Thomas Dorsey "(Soul) is what comes from within; it's what happens when the inner part of you comes out. It's the part of playing you can't get out of the books and studies. In my case, I believe that what I heard and felt in the mus..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:4010:40, 14 September 2024 diff hist +13,523‎ N Folk and Folk Rock ‎ Created page with "Folk & Folk Rock Around the same time as rock was developing, there was a counter-culture "protest" type of music called "folk". Dictionary.com says that folk music is "music that originates in traditional popular culture or that is written in such a style. Folk music is typically of unknown authorship and is transmitted orally from generation to generation." The traditional definition of folk music has nothing to do with seriousness, or protests, or championing "equal..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:3910:39, 14 September 2024 diff hist +3,491‎ N The British Invasion ‎ Created page with "The U.S.A. in disarray The 1960s started as Kennedy's "New Frontier". Unfortunately, there was a lot of cultural anxiety and insecurity. Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy assassination, the Kennedy assassin's assassination, and other social upheaval (women's sexual liberation, and other topics) left the US feeling, as a whole, a bit insecure. Another factor adding to America's overall insecurity was the fact that Rock and Roll, viewed as "noisy teen music", was taking over..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:3810:38, 14 September 2024 diff hist +4‎ Main Page ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:3810:38, 14 September 2024 diff hist +2,443‎ The Beatles ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:3710:37, 14 September 2024 diff hist +21,144‎ The Beatles ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:3510:35, 14 September 2024 diff hist +4,798‎ N The Beatles ‎ Created page with "The Beatles We do not have enough time or room to cover all of the Beatles history and contributions to Rock and Roll this week (or even in this course). But I will at least split this discussion and leave some of their later works for next week. Early Beatles The Beatles were essentially started by John Lennon. He was heavily influenced by Elvis, and tried to look the part of the rebellious teenager. However, when Lonnie Donegan had a smash hit with a skiffle style s..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:3510:35, 14 September 2024 diff hist +7‎ 1950s expansion & 1960s transitions ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:3410:34, 14 September 2024 diff hist +5,239‎ 1950s expansion & 1960s transitions ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:3310:33, 14 September 2024 diff hist +16‎ Main Page ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
  • 10:3310:33, 14 September 2024 diff hist +7,980‎ N 1950s expansion & 1960s transitions ‎ Created page with "'''Little Richard''' With the 50s and the explosion of Rock and Roll and R&B and C&W styles, there are far too many artists of note to study (in fact, that's part of the follow up assignment for this discussion). But we can try to start with Little Richard - he's a legend that made a name for himself with his nonsense lyrics and flamboyant personality and performance style. He lived a life in conflict - secular rock and superstardom in opposition to his strong faith. I..." Tag: Visual edit

11 September 2024

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