Outline of the text for Chapter 10

2. Modern
era
revolution
of 1920s
was
similar

3. It happened quickly
British Invasion – music from outside
– this was the new mainstream
Music grew up quickly
Seemingly everybody knew this
music
Soundtrack for tremendous social
change

4. Song was total
package on record – Multi-tracking
riffs, drums, etc.
Rock changed
relationship
between
composer/performer

6. Electric pianos
Amplification
Horns no longer as important
• Chuck Berry 8 beat rhythm Entire
band playing with this feel=groove

7. Identifiable instrumental riff
Before the singer enters
Used to “catch” the listener

8. Egalitarian
Eclectic
Real

9.  Collective identity - of, relating to, or
believing in the principle that all people are
equal and deserve equal rights and
opportunities
 Group names – no one person in spotlight

10.  Deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad
and diverse range of sources
 60s music came from everywhere:
Delta, Indian music, classical, jazz, etc.

11.  Rock songs intensified the reality of life in the
present
 Tin Pan Alley offered an escape

13.  Lomaxes, Woody Guthrie, The Weavers
 Revival – late 1950s and early 1960s
 Embraced social issues

14.  Brought country sensibility to rock
 Incorporated what came before
 Updated the sound of the 50s Rock and Roll
 Rock beat
 Instrumental hook

15.  2 features of 60s rock
 Hook
 8 – beat rhythm with strong beat

17.  Product of the late 1950s folk revival
 Disciple of Woody Guthrie
 Responsible for leading folk music into the
1960s
 Became the spokesman for the folk
generation

19. Lyrics are proto-rap stream of
consciousness
Clever, dense lyrics
Electric band
Elevates popular music to a higher level
of seriousness
Brings it down to earth

20. His work
remains the
standard
His influence
Showed what
was greater
could be said
than his
in Rock
popularity
Sophisticated
without being
sophisticated

22. Careful planning
Tight control over every
aspect of the operation
Inspiration
Spur-of-the-moment
decisions

23. Berry
Gordy
Songwriters
Musicians
The Performers

25. Create music
A song
that would
should tell a
appeal to
story
everyone
A story set
Use of to a
“Hooks” memorable
melody

26. Part of the story building to the chorus
Hook
More story
Repeat of the chorus
Still more story

27. A good, but Broad
Melodic Predictable
unobtrusive sound
saturation form
beat spectrum

28. Motown preserves
Motown headed the Rock tended to look
the romance in
opposite direction cynically, lustfully, or
popular song of the
from Rock not at all at love
1930s/1940s

29.  Artist of emotional intensity
 Communicated extraordinary range of
feeling:
 Pain
 Hope
 Joy
 Frustration

30.  All elements blend to convey the text
 Dark mood
 Sense of drama as instruments enter in
stages

31. Until the 1960s, popular music had been an American export
British invasion, more than any other event, fueled the ascendancy of rock in the US
Deep American roots – Muddy Waters/Robert Johnson – covers of Chuck Berry, etc.
This music was new, not exotic – became the new mainstream
No sense that this music was foreign – it was international

33. The Beatles The Stones
Public image: Public image:
• Wholesome • Nasty
Longevity: Longevity:
• 7yrs • Still going strong
Musical development: Musical development:
• Immense growth in short time • Early groove continues
Key musical element: Key musical element:
• Melody • Rhythm
Performance: Performance:
• Greatest impact on record • Still hot ticket/ live band
Role: Role:
• Stretched rock’s boundaries • Created rock’s core values

36. Rapid musical development
Extraordinary range of their music
Help define rock as a style “I Saw her Standing There” (1963)
Extended two of Chuck Berry’s important innovations
rhythmic approach and edge to guitar sound
Sound and rhythm of the song represent consolidation
getting everyone on the same page
Rock & Roll becomes Rock

37. More elaborate approach “Get back to where you
• content of lyrics show Dylan’s once belonged”
influence; more socially reference/parody to 1968
aware/difficult to decode Rivers of Blood speech by
Enoch Powell –
immigration
No coherent narrative as in
early songs

38. Not just lyric/melody/harmony
Song becomes the entire sound world
captured on record – little is gratuitous
Knowledge of styles
Melodic skills
Sound imagination

39.  “Yesterday”
 “Eleanor Rigby”
 “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”

43. Their music grew out of 50s R&R and blues
Chuck Berry
Their name was from a Muddy Waters tune
Their conception of rock began with an attitude:
sexually charged, down and dirty, swaggering, real extension of blues persona
Their public image was intended to be the opposite of the Beatles

44. To an audience raised Far cry from teen-
on pop, all of this had themed songs of 50s
the taste of forbidden R&R, early
fruit Beatles, surf music
The groove – grows
out of the interplay of Dark, nasty sound –
the rock beat and lower registers – from
layers of syncopated blues = sound of rock
riffs

45. “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”

46. “Honky Tonk Woman”

49. From the R&B and blues
traditions
One of the first “Guitar Heroes”
Pioneered the use of “effects”
Brought virtuosity to rock
guitar

52. No earlier period of
change, no previous
Eclectic, open to influences revolution in style and sound
from around the world had produced anything
approaching rock’s
extraordinary variety

53.  Acid rock, rock opera, art rock, soft
rock, heavy metal
 Jazz rock, country rock, southern
rock, Latin rock

54.  Percussion instruments - cowbell, conga
 Clave-like rhythm
 Music of Tito Puente

55.  Sly was a loose band
 integrated
 groove built upon layers of riffs
 no harmonic movement
 proto-funk
 Spontaneous aspect to the sound
 free-for-all over the groove
 implores listeners to dance

56.  powerful lyrics over a powerful beat
 responding to social issues
 providing social commentary

57.  “Soul Man,” “Godfather of Soul”
 Like the Stones’ claim to be the best rock
band, he was the best
 1st R&B hit in 1956 – little difference from
other R&B

58.  Breakthrough rhythm – more like rock rhythm
 Creates a new rhythm by addition/subtraction
–
 Full band
 drums, bass, keys, guitar plus full horn section
 larger than most rock bands
 Except for bass, all instruments have a reduced
role
 Results in open, airy texture

59.  Emphasis on rhythm/texture rather than
melody/harmony
 Voice like a percussion instrument

60.  “Queen of Soul”
 Early contact with great gospel singers –
Mahalia Jackson
 Only Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday
compare
 She not only can sing soul but
gospel, romantic ballads, swing,
 Great emotional range