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History of Rock and Roll Test 1
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09/15/2011

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New Orleans founded
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1718
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Louisiana Purchase
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1803
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Congo Square
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1817
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Minstrel shows
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1840-1920 traveled across the country to entertain by degrading and making fun of blacks
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Thomas Dartsmouth "Daddy"  Rice
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1828- Jump Jim Crow- inspires Jim Crow Laws
(reason for degrading blacks- dont want blacks hooking up with whites)
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Black face
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White people paint faces and mock black people in minstrel shows(Sometimes blacks would dress up as black faces)
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Amos and Andy
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shitty show in late 20's didnt run long but mocked blacks a lot
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Stephen Foster
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Early American Musician- "way down upon the swampy river" and a bunch of other tunes played in minstrel shows "I dream of Genie with the light brown hair"
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1861
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South Carolina wants to secede from nation- Civil War- Shermans march decimates the south form atlanta to savannah
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reconstruction
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1865-1877
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13th 14th 15th Amendment
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Emancipation

Born here= citizen

Men vote regardless of race/color

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Compromise of 1877
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Northern republicans said to Southern Democrats- you vote for us and union troops come out of the south. end of reconstruction
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3 elements in music
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Melody Harmony, Rhythm
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Scott Joplyn
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born 1877- Got a music degree and wrote music. Developed a style of music called ragtime
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Syncopation
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music that is off the beat
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Raggin the melody
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Changing music into Syncopation style.
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Delta Blues
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12 Bar Blues started to develop. An AAB form and a four bar phrase repeated 3 times
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Charlie Pattent and Sunhouse
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First black blues musicians to be recognized through recordings
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Classic Blues
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Still follows delta blues format, done by a black woman with a band as opposed to a black man with a guitar
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Bessie Smith
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One of first famous black women blues singers
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Robert Johnson
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Set the stage for blues
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Creels of color
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White men who mixed with black women = creel. Didn't consider themselves black.
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1891
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New Orleans passed a law saying if you had 1 drop of black blood, you were black
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Adolf Homer Plessy
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Creel of color who challenged that law, and got on white bus
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Plessy v. Ferguson
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Challenged that streetcars should be integrated- "Separate but equal" was the ruling
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Little Rock Highschool
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forced to be integrated by national guard
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Buddy Bolden
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First Black Jazz musician- Used Syncopation- credited with inspiring most jazz musicians
     Sang "The Funky Butt" which criticized a white congressmen. Got him in trouble but also got him famous
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Joe Oliver
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played with Bolden and influenced Lewis Armstrong.
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Lewis Armstrong
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One of the most important Jazz players- brought New Orleans jazz to Chicago
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Jazz
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now incorporating syncopation and the Blues AAB style
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Boogie Woogie
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Came out of texas- black style of music- played by black pianists- famous in 1920's started in teens
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Mead Lux Lewis
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Famous Boogie Woogie player
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Great Depression/WWII
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Hard to keep bands together, decided to lower members of bands
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Rhythm and Blues
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starts to develop from smaller jazz bands
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Lewis Jordan
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Composer, Band Leader, Played the saxophone
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Joe Turner
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Blues musician who had a rock feel to his music in the 40's
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T-Bone Walker

 

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Rigged up a guitar with pickups on it "stormy monday blues"
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Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
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White guys who picked up AAB style and boogie woogie "Lets Rock"
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Big Mama Thorton
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"Aint nothin but a hound dog"- written for her, about a male prostitute, changed for Elvis
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Cosmo Matassa
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1945 recording studio called J&M records- recorded Little Richard and others
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Piano forte
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"soft and loud"- took the place of the harpsichord- originally all wood with steel strings
around the 1800's, was given a cast iron frame. Considered a "percussion" instrument.
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3 types of piano
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"Grand Piano" "Baby Grand Piano" "Upright/Spinnet Piano".... Also now acoustic and elctric(with amplifiers)
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Fats Domino
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1949- J&M records puts out a record with tracks"Aint that a Shame" "Blue Berry Hill" "I'm Walkin Again"
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Little Richard
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Renegade of Rock N Roll- more flamboyant, more threatening to whites- gospel influence
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Ike Turner
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Considered to have made the first "Rock n Roll" record in the 50's "Rocket 88"
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1950's
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New modern world- post World Wars and people across the globe wanted to move on- Jets, bombs, space, efficient cars, new tech all around the board.
LP's- Long playing records, TV's, Supermarkets, refrigerators, "time savers"
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Electric Guitars

 

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Became commercially available- Fender (Leo Fender) Les Paul (worked for Gibson) - 50's
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Pat Boone
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covered Little Richard and others and made the lyrics more friendly so (white) parents loved him....douche bag
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Leber and Stoller
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White song writers
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Dewy Philips/Hunter Hancock
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started playing rock n roll as disc jockeys
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Allen Freed
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One of the first white guys to play black music and to call it (coined it) Rock N Roll
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Dave Bartholomew
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producer/musician hooked up with Fats Domino in 1949- worked for J&M records
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Sam Philips
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Recording lots of black musicians MEMPHIS SUN RECORDS- Recorded a young BB King and King suggested Ike Turner to him
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Elvis Pressly
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came from sun records and Sam Philips- Invented Rockabilly
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Carl Perkins
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Blue Suede Shoes. King of Rockabilly
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$35,000
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Sold Elvis to RCA Records for
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Dewy Philips
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 spun "Thats alright Momma" and people were confused on if he was country or blue or black or white
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Scotty Moore, Bill Black
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Played with Elvis
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Electric blues
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sound developing in Chicago
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Bo Diddley
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One of first black musicians to play the electric guitar in a new way
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Bo Diddley Beat
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was a salsa groove which Bo Diddley played and influenced players like the rolling stones
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Chuck Barry
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Badass, one of the first to start soloing
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Standard rock band
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2 Guitars, bass, drums, vocals

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Jerry Lee Lewis
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Incest..... Sun Records- Sam Philips- "Whole Lotta Shakin"
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"The Day the music died"
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Elvis gets drafted into the Army, Chuck Barry had sex with a white girl, Buddy Holly dies in plain crash- Little Richard becomes a minister, Jerry Lewis marries his 13 year old cousin, Eddie Cochran gets in car crash. 
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Payolla Scandall
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Disc Jockeys take and play records on radio for a certain price. Illegal
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Buddy Holly
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geeky looking, popularized fender stratocaster. Buddy Holly and the Crickets were the prototype for the self contained rock band. (Everyone was in the band together, set artists as a group)
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Bass
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Double bass, String Bass, Contra Bass, Dog house(Jazz term) Played with a Bow or fingers
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Drum set
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Symbols, Tom toms, Snare Drums, Base Drum, High Hat
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Spanish Guitar
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Classical Guitar (Acoustics)
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Steel String Guitar
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used by delta blues players
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Leo Fender
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Stratocaster
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Electric Bass
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4 strings jazz and rock n roll 
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Eddie Cochran
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 Developed power chords "Summer Time Blues" Influenced "The Who"
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Ricky Nelson
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"the adventures of Ozzy and Harriet" Ricky wanted to be a singer/musician sang onTV
     LA Rockabiliy started by Ricky Nelson "I'm walkin" "Hello Marry Lou"  First Teen Idol 
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"Rock Around the Clock"
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Considered the first rock tune- Bill Haley and the Comets
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