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include Johnny Cash, who was more influential in folk music as he developed his style, Buddy Holly, who could have contributed to rock just as much as Presley did if he had lived longer, Jerry Lee Lewis, who was one of the first rock and roll piano players, and Carl Perkins. Chapter seven talks about the broadening of the music style and the performers who came out of this period. During this time, 1950’s, rock had become legitimized as a category all on its own. By this time there were four different types of rock and roll: Rhythm and Blues/shouting, crooning, specialty songs, and novelty/monster songs. Free acculturation also came into play around this time. Ray Charles is the musician who legitimized this position. Urbanization of rock and roll from rural to urban blues led

to the circumstances in which rock and roll could be marketed. Rock and Roll began as a rough form of music. became urban blues form, and then eventually took in other forms in order to expand its market. Ballads became significant in the 1950’s because they expanded the listening audience and in turn gained acceptance by the public. The first ballads predate the invention of the term rock an roll. Chapter eight focuses on soul/mowtown music. This music had great influence around the 1960’s which were times of tumult and confusion. Rock music had new messages and new means to communicate. Rock around this time relied heavily on the rhythm section because the style was vocally dominated. Also around this time Memphis played a more important part because it became a center for

studio recording. Because of the popularity of gospel and soul along with rhythm and blues, billboard combined the categories into one called soul. Mowtown was formed by doowop groups and did fairly well. Sixty-seven percent of the singles that came out of mowtown music hit the top of the charts. Chapter nine talks about one of the greatest influences on Rock and Roll which were the Beatles. Their musical style is defined in three periods which are early beatle, 1962-1964, middle beatles,1965-1966, and late beatles 1967- 1969. The early beatles had the following characteristics: Simple lyrics, Simple background accompaniment, Rock sound from the 1950’s, Simple drumbeat and rhythmic patters, Simple bass lines, and domination by lead singer or unison singing. In their early era

they just sang songs for that had little or no meaning and did not have any relationship with each other. The rhythmic patterns were simple with little riff orientation. The Middle beatles had different style of singing which can be characterized as poetically more complex lyrics, Symbolic lyrics, More creative music, Universal point of view, sometimes critical words, growing dissension among group members, more guitar oriented and less percussive, folklike, more complicated guitar sounds and electronics, more subjects in musical lyrics, and better background accompaniment. The beatles came into their own during this period. The technical era was more complex. The albums began to show some continuity and there was logic in which the way the songs were placed. The late beatles

music can be characterized by electronic music, studio music, technically precise music, mystical allusions, and total communication. The music during this time was both diverse and homogenous. They were able to make each song and each album tie into each other successfully. The musical style was interwoven with the message of the singing. Chapter ten talks about California and what it gave to rock and roll. California was seen as a kind of utopia around the 1960’s so people wanted to go there, especially southern California. They were really into surfing music, which created such groups as The Beach Boys, and some were more into nonsurfing groups, which were such groups as The Doors. Both of these major groups came out of California around this time. In northern California,

cities such as San Francisco developed themselves as the center of movement, and musically, folk music turned into a particular kind of rock. The sound that it turned into can be defined as acid rock or psychedelic rock, which means that it is associated with LSD, or acid. It became associated with very loud music and use of electronic amplification. This new development was important to rock because it united rocks identification with rebellion, something it had lost for a while. Chapter eleven discusses Folk-rock and how it came about. Folk music is usually defined as the music of the people, it usually expresses the feelings of one particular area or group. It has many different aspects. Rock, jazz, country, and other musical textures were added experimentally, leading to