Published on 7 Mar 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
History of Rock Music (Music 24B)
Spring 2017
Instructor: Kyle Luck
02/27/2017
●Many had different opinions on what “Rock ‘N’ Roll” meant / was
●Big Joe Turner - “Shake, rattle, and roll.”
●Younger generations are not listening to their parents’ music / artists
●“Rock ‘N’ Roll” and “Hip-Hop” got their names from songs
Popular Music - Definitions
●Music created w/ commercial success in mind
○Popularity measured in #s - how many albums sold, how many #1
hits
●Can be compared w/ other styles that differ in intent as well as musical
result
○Popular, Folk, Classical
●This definition is problematic bc some music crosses the boundaries of
genre
○“Garage bands”, which are similar to folk music
○Piano rags by Scott Joplin: “art” or “popular” music?
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