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Music junkies, concert connoisseurs, and vinyl vigilantes everywhere need to know about the similarities and differences between the alternative rock and indie rock genres. The genres alternative and indie are terms sometimes used interchangeably, but their origins are indeed differing. There has been a varying progression of media platforms used to listen to these genres among the past few decades due to society’s social and economic changes. In terms of instrumental progressions and technological

We all know of rock and roll; ACDC, The Beatles, Duffy. The absolute rockstars, literally, of rock. But do we know anything before, or after the golden ages? Do we understand what has happened to rock and why it is so valuable today? Who started rock and roll? Well, that’s easy. Chuck Berry introduced something never heard before, the song named “Maybellene”. Chuck decided to have a nice electric guitar solo, as well as comforting tones that ran over the music with a small valve amplifier. Elvis

Punk rock is a unique and changing musical genre that was born in both England and the United States in the late 1970s. A largely underground music scene with a reliance on a rejection of societies norms, dismissal of capitalism and consumption, heavy reliance on community, and a strong attitude of do-it-yourself and self-empowerment, punk continues to have a large influence on the contemporary music scene. Punk rock, however, has faced issues when dealing with concepts of sex and gender. Bands within

COUNTRY AND JAZZ IN ROCK At the end of the 1960s, when Rock and Roll were at its prime, two musical genres that were originally considered its influences re-imagined themselves through Rock and Roll’s prism - Country and Jazz musicians started to mix their music with Rock’s relentless energy. The newfound genres, called Country Rock and Jazz Rock respectively were accepted by the audience and critics alike, having a major impact that is still traceable in today’s music. Musical genres can be often

In the 1950’s a new type of music emerged in the United States. Rock and Roll was here to stay. “Rock musicians not only addressed contemporary events, they pushed the conventional musical boundaries.” Rock and Roll had a significant impact on politics, the music industry, and pop culture in the United States during the 1960 's. “Music of the 1960’s often challenged political authority directly and unambiguously.” Rock musicians found themselves considering political involvement through their

music that thoroughly defined either a time period or a culture of a certain region. Rock and roll and jazz are two contrasting genres with slightly similarities between them. They have both been inspired by older and more prominent genres like blues and have also evolved later genres from different regions of the world such as pop music and reggae music. Also, jazz incorporates rock and roll in its music today. Rock and roll and jazz are analyzed singly and descriptively based on aural analyses of

Stephanie Rollens MUS 1010 Prof. Ingram Fall 2012 Research Paper: The Evolution of Alternative Rock a. Introduction/Overview A phrase coined by many emerging bands in the early 1980’s, ‘alternative rock’ has become an increasingly more popular term used to describe artists that try to be innately different, yet veer away from the establishment and wish only to play the music they want to play without “selling out”. While it isn’t as concentrated or specific as other genres like hip hop or classical

The progressive rock era was primarily found and established in the late 1960s to the early 1970s. It primarily evolved due to a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility.” The primary characteristics of this genre is to push the boundaries of “rock’s technical and compositional boundaries.” By utilizing this idea, the songs produced incorporate elements from jazz, classical, and vary greatly depending on the background of the person. If a musician grew up

History of Rock and Roll           Punk rock developed in the United States out of the raw and energetic music adored and played by garage bands of the mid-sixties. Many of these garage bands were started by kids in their teens who hardly knew how to play simple chords on a guitar or bang away at drums or cymbals in their own garages. The music was often played at a high volume as well.           The

This segregation has caused some ambiguity in the classification of musical genres, like in the case of Rock and Roll and its initial derivation from Rhythm and Blues, for instance. The term ‘rock and roll’ was first coined by Alan Freed, a white radio DJ who played rhythm and blues music records on his programs in Cleveland. When he went to New York in 1954 he renamed his show and called it ‘Rock and Roll Show’ although he still played the same music. Freed himself uses the term interchangeably, showing