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    “Sex‚ Drugs‚ and Rock ‘n’ Roll” The “Swinging Sixties” was a decade of new developments changing ideals that ranged from women’s movements‚ to “the New Left‚” and to the musical scene of Rock ‘n’ Roll. These important progressions began the counterculture and social revolution among the youth in the United States. The counterculture ideals and visions were brought about by the extraordinary explosion of creative thought through music and other forms of art. The music scene‚ that overwhelmed

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    The Negotiators Elizabeth Dela Cruz‚ Glenn Gonzaga‚ David Heinauer‚ Luther Lombos‚ Michael Rin MGT/557 March 21‚ 2013 Richard Arriaga The Negotiators The Negotiators are a rock and roll band whose contract is up for renewal with their current publisher‚ R-n-R Label. University of Phoenix MGT557 class Team B role-played the characters Jimmy‚ Tinny‚ and Janice of The Negotiators‚ and an agent from the firm Agent-town to understand the complexities of how agents‚ constituencies‚ and audiences

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    The Beat Generation The Twentieth Century has witnessed several moments which have helped to shape the face of American culture. Each movement has in some way altered the way we‚ as Americans‚ think and act. One of the most influential literary movements of this century has been that of the Beat movement. The Beats were initially a small group of individuals situated in New York. The Beat writers were a small group of friends at first‚ and a movement later. The Beat Generation in literature consisted

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    Technology and the influence on values: Technology influences any society‚ from the first telephone to the smartphones of today. It has always been a very fast growing and developing mechanism and has changed a lot throughout the generations. Today’s generation‚ “Generation Z” is known as ‘the generation of technology’ and sometimes referred to as the ‘selfie gen’. The place that technology plays on enforcing values and morals has become more prominent than in previous generations. In comparison to

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    no difference when it comes to rock and roll. Since the late 1950s when women first began to make their entry into rock and roll until now‚ women have been making great strides in the industry. However‚ as James Brown and Betty Jean Newsome state in their 1966 single‚ “this is a man’s world”. Women have constantly been cheated out of credit and money. They have also not been taken seriously as musicians. They have been oversexualised‚ as well‚ in rock and roll. As Runaways’ Joan Jett says‚ “People

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    Eric Hartsfield Apr 11‚ 2010 Trotta 1st Hour The King of Rock N’ Roll To make music history artist must do the unthinkable to make it to the top. Elvis Presley has done many things that have boosted his reputation to an extraordinarily popular person. Presley has changed music by creating a unique style no one has brought to the stage before‚ by having an incredible fan base that keeps growing today and accomplishing the unthinkable in the music industry. Even though Presley’s

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    Positive Influences of Rock Music Beneath misconceptions attached to rock music‚ lies the truth. In a recent unpublished survey‚ results showed that the majority of people‚ a mixture of different age groups and genre listeners‚ disagree that rock music has had any positive influences that outweigh the negative (Do). Through lack of analyzing‚ many judge rock music without ever knowing the truth about it. Those that do not understand the genre may blame it for everything that is wrong with today

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    Rock music is a group of related music styles that have dominated popular music in the West since about 1955. Rock music began in the United States‚ but it has influenced on a broad field of cultures and musical traditions‚ including gospel music‚ the blues‚ country music‚ classical music‚ folk music‚ electronic music‚ etc. Thus‚ rock music is now felt worldwide. Actually‚ Rock Music is not only a kind of entertainment or music style. There are many meaningful values which lie hidden beneath

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    THE BIRTH OF ROCK n’ ROLL - A CASE OF RACIAL CONFLICT The term rock ‘n’ roll has been traced back as far as the 1920s in black music‚ but it became an accepted when disc jockey Alan Freed began used it to describe the character of the rhythm and blues he played on his radio program in the mid-‘50s. The term “Rockin’ and Rollin” were originally used as slang for sex‚ in black pop music. However‚ it went on to become the name for a new‚ salacious musical genre. Innovation in audio technology‚ new

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    Origins of Rock and Roll Research Project World Music in the Global Village 345-101-MQ sec. 00029 22/04/13 The musical ethnography being studied is the origins of Rock and Roll. Rock and Roll evolved from blues in America and started in the 1920’s but only became popular in the 1950’s. Rock mainly uses a fast paste beat of drums‚ electric guitar‚ bass guitar and acoustic guitar. Some famous Rock musicians such as Elvis Presley were in the early stages of when Rock was popular

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