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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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    British Music The evolution of rock music 1920s - Young people listened to ragtime and jazz. 1930s - Swing became popular. Benny Goodman and his Orchestra were the ’King of the Swing’‚ as were Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw. The music was fast and frantically paced and led to dances being banned from dance halls‚ as the young women being flung into the air by their partners showed their stocking tops and underwear. Jazz continued to be popular. 1940s - The Second World War brought fast‚ frantic

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    Folk rock is a musical style that combines elements of folk music and rock music. In its earliest form‚ the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the United Kingdom around the mid-1960s. This type of music was started by the Los Angeles band The Byrds‚ who began playing traditional folk music and Bob Dylan-penned material with rock instrumentation‚ in a style heavily influenced by The Beatles and other British bands. The term "folk rock" was itself first coined by the United

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    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 In a recent unpublished survey‚ results showed that the majority of people‚ a mixture of different age groups and genre listeners‚ disagree that rock music has had any positive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. Rock music is not

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    The influence of Rock music on young people Purpose of research * To learn‚ how rock music influences on young people " Nothing changes people’s dispositions and customs so strongly as music." (Shu Ching) Music – is one of the most inspired forms of art. Rhythm‚ melody‚ harmony‚ dynamics‚ a variety of sound-combinations‚ music colours and nuances reproduce infinite scale of feelings and emotions. Rock music — or simply rock — is a loosely defined genre of popular music that developed

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    Music Music‚ it defines each and every one of us. From the beat of the song to the deep meaningful lyrics with stories hidden within the lyrics‚ music describes our personality and who we are. Along with that‚ music can also change our perspective on life or certain‚ delicate‚ subjects that we as humans tend to talk about. The voice‚ known as music‚ truly has shaped each and every single one of us in different and beautiful ways. When I exercise‚ I see it as a way to release the stress and anger

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    the most the most famous Disc Jockey(DJ) in rock ’n roll history‚ however‚ controversy encircled the man and he received lots of criticism especially from white adults during his career. I think that Alan Freed greatly helped shape the sound of music today and further advanced the progression of rock music. He is the person who coined the term "Rock & Roll" and also put up with a lot of nonsense regarding the term. At the time "Rock & Roll" was an urban african american term for

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    “Real music is bound to express‚ not to impress.” This one sentence‚ explains everything we have to understand about music. For most people‚ music is merely food for the ears‚ but for some‚ it also feeds the mind and the soul. People who see music this way are sort of gifted with the knowledge of a language that is neither taught nor learned; a language that is understood with the heart. Those people understand the muted emotions and the unspoken messages the composers wish to convey. Not many appreciate

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    The Rock music era affected society in more negative ways than positive ones. Rock music is a genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the 1950’s. It gained its origins from rhythm and blues‚ jazz and rock and roll. The exact date of the birth of Rock music is difficult to determine .It was said that no one planned the Internet‚ but it was conceived and then it took over the world. The same can be said for Rock music (Dister‚ 19). Few would dispute that rock music owes most of it

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    Zach Brunner Music in World Cultures Kevin Hoeschen Research Paper 9 Dec. 2013 The Emergence of Rock ’n ’ Roll Aside from the invention of Velcro‚ rock ’n ’ roll music is one of the few things introduced in the 1950s that is still common today. There were a number of great things introduced back then‚ but after 60 years things tend to get outmatched or forgotten. Rock ’n ’ roll is not one of those forgotten things. Rock ’n ’ roll is still one of the most popular genres of music in the 21st century

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