methods for analyzing music and anyone who reads the books should be able

techniques for listening to music and making legitimate statements about

and roll as a serious art form and traces it cultural roots throughout the

Chapter one discusses the elements of rock and makes four assumptions.

Assumption one states that rock is a legitimate art form. An art form is

creative act that springs from the artist's experience as it reflects or

It then states that acculturation, a process by which a certain people are

foreign culture, changed the Afro-Americans from their original culture to

mixture of U.S. influences and African roots which played a large part in

roll sounds today. Brown proves rock is a legitimate art form by talking

Assumption two states that rocks roots are in folk, jazz, and pop

Musicians who first started rock and roll must have had something to base

which turned out to be primarily folk, jazz,

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