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 The story of rock n roll

Sun record label

rnb and pop was segregated

black people moving up to chicago and stopping off at Memphis to record music

Sam Phillips got white artists ( e.g Elvis) to sing black songs on white radio/tv etc...

gospel + country + blues = rock n roll

early recordings carved directly to a platter

rocket 88 (1951) - first ever rock n roll recording

elvis had sex appeal - banned from moving hips on tv

tape machines invented to create multitracks 

equipment: large ribbon and valve mics, ribbon mics (distantly micd drums), dollar bill percussion, small sweaty slightly live room

changing sound of popular music

buddy holly 'garage sound', multitracks

the beatles



Into The 1960s

rock and roll through blues to folk rock


johnny and june cash - country, blues, folk


tomorrow never knows - beatles, experimental, spiritual, trippy

ronnettes and amy winehouse
spring reverb and percussion


Comparing Be my Baby and Back to Black
4 chord turnaround BTB
circle of fifths - I VI IV V BMB

Soul
rnb, funk and blaxploitation
otis redding - stax (memphis)
marvin gaye - motown (detroit)
etta james - chess  (chicago)

chess
  • muddy waters
  • etta james
  • little walter
  • leonard, phil and marshall (chess)
    chuck berry
  • howling wolf
  • bo diddly
  • willie dixon
motown
  • berry gordy - the funk borthers (set up motown)
  • smokey robinosn and the miracles
  • dianna ross and the supremes
  • marvin gaye and tammi terrell
  • the temptations
  • stevie wonder
  • martha and the vandellas
  • commodores - lionell richie lead singer
  • gladys knights and the pips
  • the jackson five - michael jackson lead singer
stax
  • turned black pride fist into finger click to empower people with music
  • jim stewart and estelle axton
  • funky bassline, tamborine, horn
  • the mar-keys, the bar-keys
  • otis redding
  • sam and dave
  • rufus and carla thomas
  • isaac hayes - blaxploitation, gold chains
atlantic
  • jerry wexler
  • ahmet ertegun
  • FAME studios - alabama
  • muscle shoals sound studio, alabama
  • ray charles
  • aretha franklin - amazing grace
  • led zeppelin
mono desks
pentatonic and blues/country scales
1 b3 4 5 b7

GIL SCOTT HERON
punk 


  • pan africanism - diaspora (black people coming over to uk), 
  • Linton Kwisi Johnson - inglan is a bitch - speaking truth to power
  • last poets - start of protohiphop
  • bongos used along with fast poetry to create polyrhythms
  • black renaissance 
  • counter intelligence programme set up by government creates crack cocaine to give out to black community
  • MLK day tour with Stevie wonder and gil scott heron
disco to donna summers
  • disco created for gay people to dance 
  • chic and nile rogers
  • disco demolition night ended disco
  • donna summers - i feel love was the first electro track created (1977)
  • MC sha rock - first ever female MC shown live
  • mix tapes
  • rappers delight
bob marley
  • fused reggae, ska and rocksteady with the wailers
  • rastafarian icon
  • 1976 assassination attempt for promoting pan africanism
  • island records (guitar solos - white rock kids)
a reggae beat
  • bubbling organ
  • ostinato bass, space and triplets
  • guitar stab 2 and 3 
  • kick and snare together on 3, slightly wing 8s on hit, with triplets
punk
  • protest music
  • US punk - sophisticated anit-establishment artists
  • UK punk - class rage
  • blondie rapture  - first ever rap break in a single
  • the clash incorporates reggae, ska, dub, funk, rockabilly


Britpop - 90s

  • north/south divide in Manchester.
  • oasis - north, blur - south
  • 75% of people started going to uni - not enough unis to cater
  • tony blair in power
  • pride in britain
  • suede, radiohead - hated being called britpop bands
  • TFI friday - ocean colour scene
  • breaking rules on TV
  • collision of 'posh' and 'common people'
  • women singing edgy rock songs - called 'ladettes'
  • mainstream pop artists - spice girls, robbie williams, coldplay

Daft punk - 2000s

  • dust brothers (the chemical brothers) - referencing influx of MDMA and acid catered towards young people.
  • fat boy slim
  • daft punk hid their faces
  • autotune

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