... with both genres can be greatly attributed to the elements of sex, gambling, and drinking which are commonly associated with rap and blues. Blues music is very structured in its form. Songs are usually 12bars, 16 bars, or 8 bars. Each has a very specific set of rhyme schemes ... Los Angeles, California. Rap music is influenced by many genres, including rock and roll, disco, jazz, and of course blues. Like Blues, rap is usually spoken or chanted. Rap music is rebellious in nature, which makes sense, since rap was created out of rebellion to disco music. Rap developed from individuals ... ...

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... for trained voices that could fill large halls. The ability of radio broadcasting to reach rural communities aided the dissemination of new styles, notably country music, and to a lesser extent blues. By the 1950s, the migration of Amer. blacks to cities in the North had resulted in the cross- ... 1960s black pop gained a huge white audience. The history of pop through the 1990s was basically that of rock and its variants, incl. disco, heavy metal, punk rock, and rap, which have spread throughout the world and become the standard musical idiom for young people in many ... Ambrosian, Gal...

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... of this seemingly lewd, loud, and obnoxious music were teenagers who wished to upset their parents, others were individuals who sincerely felt passionate for rock. Either way, Rock became a culture, one that was not afraid to express every feeling, thought, and emotion. Musical culture is an evolutional process. Spirituals, Blues, Swing, Rock n Roll, disco, and other genres have matured over time, while ... still maintaining at least a touch of their roots. In the 1970s, a new sort of music was born in The Bronx, New York City. A Jamaican immigrant by the name of DJ Kool Herc developed ...

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... political expression. It has influenced the styles, language and ideals of America especially the younger generation. (2, 7, 8) Rock and Roll is a direct descendent of the blues. The blues is a form of music invented by blacks in the southern United States as a reaction to the harsh racial discrimination imposed upon them. It is a musical form based on alienation, depression and suffering. Centuries of ... and cynical, the Seventies is sometimes called the "me" decade, because the ideals and action of the Sixties turned inward. Disco certainly reflected the materialistic aspect. Disco wan...

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"Rock n' Roll to Death" From Rock-a-Billy in the 50's, to Rock in the 60's, to Disco in the 70's, to Punk and Glamour in the 80's, no American institution has ever undergone such radical transformation in such a short time. Women's ... . By the end of the decade, Rock n' Roll started to decline because it was formula ridden and it was too sentimental. Teenage audiences shifted their devotion to Folk music. The rebirth of Rock n' Roll came in the 60's, when the Beatles started to play. The Beatles, for some the best rock group ever, dominated the record ... you experienced yet, etc. That all ...

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... 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 ... 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, ...

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... soon replaced the Rolling Stones as the house band at the widely known Crawdaddy Club in London, England. The members wanted to take their music in different directions so the band dismembered in July of 1968. The guitarist was given the rights to the band along with all of ... bowdlerized blues-rock. In shrieker Robert Plant, ex-Yardbird Jimmy Page found a vocalist who could match his guitar pyrotechnics, and the band pounded out its music with swaggering ferocity and Richter-scale-worthy volume. Pumping up blues classics such as Otis Rush's "I Can't Quit You Baby" and Howlin' Wolf's ....

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