As well all know, the music came from the people of the time as well. Let's start with the early fifties. This was right after WWII and the world was recovering. People had new freedoms and ideas in their heads. Now people were free to pursue individual interests while being guilt free. Although along with this, separation of the races began again, and the music that people wrote and played reflected upon what was going on in society. Big Bands lost their edge and now people were more focusing on individual vocalists. An Alabama White Citizens' Council Member was once quoted saying "We've set up a 20-man committee to do away with this vulgar, animalistic, nigger rock and roll bop." For now, the fear of communism and for some whites, the fear of an independent

Rock and Roll was identified by it's pulsating drums, repetetive chords, stepped up tempos and very loud guitars. Rock and Roll became the new fad, and was very well liked by teens in the fifties. it gave them a reason to dance and go crazy. It led the way to new clothes and hairstyles among the young ones.

-minded black society came at the same time. Since they both threatened the status quo, any cross-cultural performance took on the appearance of being subversive. This totally restricted black music flourished while white music languished of its self imposed limitations Soon enough at the hands of black innovators, country music came into being very urbanized and electric, and gospel transformed into "doo-wop." Big bands branched off into smaller divisions and changed their sound quite a bit, some into be-bop and some into what is now known as R&B. Still at this time though, artists such as Pat Boone, Rosemary Clooney, and Perry Como were at the very top of the pop charts. Yet, all that white American complacency could not hold back the vitality of Black R&B music, so a whole new sound emerged - Rock and Roll.

This new legion of mostly teenage male surfers also had an effect on rock and roll music. Surfers usually listened to music that had originated from Dick Dale and his Del-Tones. Dale released a few songs on his own label, and he worked very closely with Leo Fender, the manufacturer of the first mass produced, solid body electric guitar and the president of Fender Instruments, to improve the Showman amplifier and to develop the reverberation unit that would give surf music its distinctively fuzzy sound. By the end of 1963, surf music was widely popular. A craze, if you will.

In the mid-sixties, this new sound was being formed by a number of American bands. It was simple, raw, and crude. Garage bands were usually young and amateur, and never really quite lived up to their inspirations. A lot of the bands actually emphasized their amateurishness, by slamming the same three chords over and over while at the same time growling their vocals into their microphones. Some say that this was the beginning of do-it-yourself punk rock. HUNDREDS of garage bands popped up around the united states, and very few had any hi

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