Rock and Roll by Aaron Hammond

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Rock and Roll

Published on Jan 11, 2016

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Rock and Roll

A Force for Change

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Rock and roll is a genre that is very important to American history, but it wasn't "invented".

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Rock music evolved out of a few different genres and events colliding.

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This mix lead to the characteristics of rock and roll: a small group with loud instruments

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Typically including drums, a singer, and especially the electric guitar.

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One very important piece of this beginning was blues.

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Blues was a simple kind of music, typically played on the acoustic guitar, that was very popular among the poor and the black communities in the 1920s.

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Jazz and gospel music, with their loud and excited sound, also contributed to rock.

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Because of rock's roots in traditionally black kinds of music, it borrowed some unusual rhythms, like using beats 2 and 4 instead of 1 and 3. This is called the "backbeat".

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However, most of these genres used lots of people all at once...
Something you couldn't do during a war.

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In the 30s, the electric guitar had been invented to keep up with the growing sound of big band jazz.

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Even when groups started to get smaller, the guitar stayed around. It became essential to the early rock groups.

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By the time America entered the 1950s, rock and roll was the biggest music genre of the day.

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Aaron Hammond