... 'cool, restrained and understated' (1978 :19). Basing many of their observations on the disco movie Saturday Night Fever, they wrote of the social relations of disco as 'traditional' – girls dreaming of 'disco romance' and boys dreaming of quick and easy sex (1978: 19). Yet disco music, far from being associated simply with traditional heterosexual conventions, is a genre that has frequently been ... of many of the assumptions that have been made about gay preferences in music (e.g. who says that gay men prefer opera, show tunes and disco?). Gill is particularly critica...

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... changed to electric guitar and bass, amplified drums and other electronic devices. Not only did the instruments change but so did the ideas behind the music. For example, "to the lyrics of teenage love and adolescent concerns were added social commentary, glorification of drugs and free-association poetry" (Groliers ... electronic distortion. Most music of this decade was intended to be listened to, but not to be danced to. This intention wasn't kept by Disco music that arose in 1977, whose sole purpose was to be danced to. One great Disco Group were the Bee Gees. The music for the dis...

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... of the next, Rock n' Roll started to decline because it was formula ridden and it was too sentimental. Teenage audiences transferred their allegiance to Folk music. In 1963 the renewal of Rock n' Roll came when The Beatles started to play. The Beatles, for some the best rock group ever, were ... was intended to be listened to, but not to be danced. But this intention wasn't kept by Disco music that arose in 1977 and was especially for dancing. One great group of Disco music were the Bee Gees. Disco music was described by rock fans as mechanical, commercial and unlyrical (which is true)...

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... late-'80s alternative pop/rock, so alternative lost some of its quirkier tendencies in the '90s. Most experimental bands were relegated to indie rock. B. Criticism Almost since its birth, alternative music has been criticized. As with anything that is criticized, there are positive comments and negative comments. Unfortunately, many critics only had negative comments for alternative rock and its various subgenres ... Gore even interviewed soft rock legend John Denver on the subject. II. Subgenres A. Basics Dance music comes in many different forms, from disco to hip-hop. In the late '70...

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... be influenced by the different views of the present teenage society. What I"m going to do is try and illustrate a short and accurate history of music and the influence each period has brought; weather it was political, social, psychological or physical , I"m going to try to equally show the positive ... incredibly positive influence. Shortly after this people started feeling the need for something else; something that came into the shape of Disco Music. A simple kind of music that made people want to dance without thinking on the multi-layered lyrical content of the songs. The 80's Unfor...

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... later actions. Then Abba came with their disco tunes and had everyone dancing in disco's until the early hours of the morning. Easy, no-worries music that was there just to make you feel good for a while and forget your problems. Their music still keeps us moving well into the year ... 2002. I think people still need that feeling. The 1980's have been described in a very precise way in Roy Shuker's book "Understanding popular music ... made her debut: Madonna. In 1981, MTV made their first appearance on the television screens of the world and changed the way we see music. The station pr...

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... along with their beliefs. (Nuzum 10) Similarly, in California, probation officers from Orange County asked two professors at California State University to research whether there was a link between heavy metal music and juvenile crime. The professors asked a group of high school students to identify the lyrical themes of their favorite songs. Of the 662 songs the students listed, the students said ... restricted. There is no parental advisory sticker on the bible, torah, or any other religious book. Neglecting to censor aspects of a person's life that are much more influential than the ...

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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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... 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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... popular Motown artists The Jackson Five. While Glam Rock and Punk music took very little from R&B music, Disco borrowed some of the fast up-tempo dance beats. It was the teenybopper sound however that really took its roots from R&B music (Gregory 181-182). The reason for R&B's heavy influence into pop/teeny-bopper and disco music was mainly technology. The rhythmic dance beats that once characterized ... R&B music was available to virtually anyone in the seventies due to technological advances. Bayles explicates this point in her book ... was not the same R&B of the 50's and 60's. The w...

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... of the next, Rock n' Roll started to decline because it was formula ridden and it was too sentimental. Teenage audiences transferred their allegiance to Folk music. In 1963 the renewal of Rock n' Roll came when The Beatles started to play. The Beatles, for some the best rock group ever, were ... was intended to be listened to, but not to be danced. But this intention wasn't kept by Disco music that arose in 1977 and was especially for dancing. One great group of Disco music were the Bee Gees. Disco music was described by rock fans as mechanical, commercial and unlyrical (which is true)...

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... 70"S New musicians such as Kate Bush and Mike Oldfold opened the road to a more abstract type of music towards the late 70's. Mid-70's were largely a time of consolidation, rather than innovation, however 2 new styles of music emerged - these being disco music and punk rock. Disco music was the first to use electronic instruments on a mass scale - orchestral arrangements became as ordinary as a guitar solo ... . Punk rock had an even greater impact because it came with a unique new style and thousands of independent record labels promoting underground artists. The music scene was split b...

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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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... " meaning conversation (1993). In the sixties and seventies, people would have rap sessions as opposed to group counseling, for example. Rap music consists of chanted; street poetry that is often improvised (1993). The rap is accompanied by music in the disco or funk area (1993). While some admire the creativity that rapers employ, others criticize the genre for promoting violence and misogyny (1993 ... ). Rap music has found its way onto mainstream pop radio stations, as well as having its own shows on MTV. Understanding the roots ... , entities such as KRS-One, Public Enemy and Queen La...

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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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... 's "Love For Sale" from all of it's stations because of its prostitution themes" (Nuzum 219). During the same year, an issue of the popular magazine Variety "declares that rock music should be banned for causing a staggering wave of juvenile violence and mayhem" (Nuzum 219). It's doesn"t seem too ironic that the largest and most popular rock star of these times ... Into Me", or Lynyrd Skynard's "Tuesday's Gone". But what about Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets", or the classic Tramps hit "Disco Inferno"? Even Lewis Armstrong's touching song, "What a Wonderful World", was deemed potentiall...

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... involved in business in athletics, while men became closer to home. The changes occurring throughout this entire time period were reflected in the popular music. At the beginning of rock-and-roll, women were reflected as stereotypically inferior to men. This was shown in squeaky-clean girl groups ... -dominated society. Coupled with the war protests at the time, artists like Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane began to have a profound impact on American music. Airplane, for example, first appeared nationally, and caught the wave of activism and "free- love during the summer of 1967. Their ...

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... honor for many young aspiring artists. It was a center for cultural and performance art expression for over 30 years. Early punk rock performances were outrageous. Music had never been performed this way before. In the early 1970's Lou Reed had tied off his arm with a microphone cord and injected himself with heroin ... were planted and germinating. The streets and suburbs or early 80's Los Angeles were crawling with teen rebels. We were sick of hippies and we hated disco. L.A. County was a breeding ground for frustrated, bored, fed-up kids with nothing to do and lots of places to do it....

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