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- muddy waters
- etta james
- little walter
- leonard, phil and marshall (chess)
chuck berry - howling wolf
- bo diddly
- willie dixon
- 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
- 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
- jerry wexler
- ahmet ertegun
- FAME studios - alabama
- muscle shoals sound studio, alabama
- ray charles
- aretha franklin - amazing grace
- led zeppelin
- 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 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
- fused reggae, ska and rocksteady with the wailers
- rastafarian icon
- 1976 assassination attempt for promoting pan africanism
- island records (guitar solos - white rock kids)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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