Rock n’ Roll can be defined as many things by dictionaries, but studying how it came up and developed through history affecting and changing culture and society, it can be defined better. It is normally defined as a music genre, but it involves more. For me, Rock n’ Roll is freedom. It is a music genre, a culture, and a way of living.
It is considered by many as not just a music genre, but an artistic, social, and cultural expression as well as a lifestyle (Univision.com). Since its start it represented a big change for music and culture, breaking schemes, and moral and behavioral traditions (Univision.com). Rock n’ Roll came up from the American culture of the mid-fifties, as a way of singing and playing music that excited the young people as they saw in it a way of releasing their disconformities and rebelliousness (esto.es). As a music genre, it is said to be the result of the fusion of other three: rhythm and blues, jazz, and country (esto.es).
The term “Rock n’ Roll”, generally, is used nowadays as a synonym of “rock”, and both words refer to all the variations or “last names” (esto.es) that evolved from the original Rock n’ Roll of the fifties. “Rock” began to be used after 1960, when the original thing changed for the first time (azheavymetal.com).
Two musicians are seen as the official creators, and it is argued about whether one was the creator or the other: Elvis Presley and Bill Haley. They both recorded a song in 1954 that is considered as the beginning. Elvis is the worldwide known King of Rock n’ Roll; he recorded his song “That’s All Right” on July of that year (Univision.com) and made history: there had never been music like that before. However, others argue Bill Haley created it on April of the same year with his song “Rock around the clock”, because he sang with more rhythm and speed than he had ever done, mixing the styles of boogie woogie and blues, and creating the original Rock n’ Roll (azheavymetal.com).You decide who started it all ;)
Works Cited
“¿Qué es el Rock and Roll?” AZHeavyMetal.com. Historia del Rock n Roll. N.p., n.d. Web. August 18, 2011.
“Historia del Rock” Univision.com. Univisión. Univision Communications Inc., 2008. Web. August 18, 2011.
“Rock and Roll: Un apunte social” Esto.es. Rock and Roll. N.p, n.d. Web. August 18, 2011.
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