The Origin of Rock and Roll

The first work in history to be labeled as rock and roll was recorded by the white American musician Bill Haley

In the mid-1950s "Rock Around the Clock". At that time

Bill Haley was wearing a crisp suit and tie, and his hair was combed to be shiny. If a person like this

walked on the street, or stood on When singing this song on stage today, no one would think that he was singing rock music, but history has defined it as the first rock song. This is not surprising. It turns out that people still think that the sky is round and the earth is square. It turns out that people also think that the earth is the center of the universe! We can regard it as a joke played by the times on us. In this way, in fact, any specific definition seems to be

relative, because times are changing, and people's fields of understanding are constantly expanding and changing.

The most difficult thing in the world is to define something, because it requires an accurate and concise description. The easiest thing in the world can be said to be to define something, because you can give a concept according to your own way of understanding and level of understanding. So a long time ago, in the traditional consciousness of Chinese people, long hair and a leather jacket were rock and roll. Then some people think that rock is the SOLO on the guitar, the bass on the bass, and the rhythm on the drums. Nowadays, some people say that rock and roll is a kind of spirit, but some people say that this is wrong. So

With more and more doubts, I began to look through relevant books and information and found the following definitions of so-called rock

experts:

p>

Grell Marcus is the author of the famous rock classic "Mystery Train". He believes that rock and roll is nothing more than "an American culture", such as Elvis Pugh. Leslie is nothing more than "dramatizing the feeling of being an American and graphically expressing the meaning, value, and pros and cons of American life."

Carl Belz, in his book "Rock Story", regarded rock and roll as "folk art", a subconscious

slang expression.

Charlie Luter calls rock and roll the "sound of the city" and believes that it is a new musical cry created by urban teenagers.

Jonathan Eisen called rock music "a rebellion against the hypocrisy of Western culture...a profound form of subversion" in "Rock of Ages".

Dave Haack used the Marxist theory of class struggle to analyze rock music in "For What It's Worth" and considered it to be "

working class culture"; while Paul Johnson The New Statesman attaches great importance to rock music as a bourgeois conspiracy

The purpose is to recruit potential revolutionaries and make them "indulge in it and become numb, lazy and free"

far from reality”.

Richard Goldstein believes in "The Poetry of Rock" that the most important feature of rock is still the unbridled squandering of youthful vitality... < /p>

Speaking of this, I think of the African American musician Chuck Berry’s use of his work to define rock music.

This is also a work by Johnny B in the early days of the birth of rock music in the 1950s. ,Good. It tells the story of a young man who played guitar

to achieve success. It uses a narrative method to add a very attractive aura to rock music.

Rock music can make people An ordinary person leads to success and glory. This ordinary person does not need to have any knowledge of music theory or understand music, as long as he has an ideal, as long as he has the courage to sing what he thinks in his heart, as long as he

wants. It is also worth mentioning that on a spacecraft launched by the United States to alien creatures, this song

was also recorded on a CD as the essence of human civilization to express the expression of the earth. achievements of human civilization.

What is rock music? I remember someone once asked Wu Bai on a radio program why Taiwan’s rock music is not popular.

He replied: Because the roads in Taiwan are not big enough. What a wonderful answer!! There are many interpretations of rock music, one of which is: a kind of music that can be shaken. I really like this explanation, and it coincides with Wu Bai's wonderful answer.

In fact, as early as the early 1930s, there was a song called Rock & Roll in the United States, but there was no such music name at that time.

The most well-known name for this term was DJ-Alan Freed who first used the name "rock concert" on his radio show in 1951. It is said that New York He is still called the King of Rock and Roll. And in 1955, Bill Haley and his band His Comets stayed on the charts for 8 weeks with the song Rock Around The Rock

, fueled by the song's success, Rock became well-known to the world. That's why some people called 1955 the Rock Era, and Bill Henry was also nicknamed the father of rock.

Rock music can be said to be new music intertwined with various songs such as jazz, blues, country and western songs.

But the most elements are still taken from blues, and even Some people say that rock music is just amplification of blues, but I don't

can accept this statement. For example, singing rock music does not necessarily require showing too much singing skills, close to

The roaring singing style allows emotions to be completely vented, but unlike blues, it evokes sad emotions. Because rock music has this characteristic, it is no wonder that it became a craze at a time when life was generally uneasy. It spread rapidly, and under the leadership of pioneers such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley and the Beatles inspired rock and roll

It lasted for decades~

The rock music originated in the United States finally underwent a huge change in the early 1960s, that is, starting from The Beatles, a group of British bands

In an instant, they broke in In the American market, some people called this incident the first British invasion. Fortunately, there were still some groups in the United States that competed with them at that time.

Beach boys who enjoy the beauty of California such as light, beauty, and surfboards. In addition, ballad rock and roll full of national music also emerged soon after. In addition to Bob Dylan, there are also many British singers with distinct styles such as Gults or Ireland.

, but in the late 1960s, American bands once again took the lead. That is, the psychedelic rock led by 3J (Jim Morrison, Jimi

Hendrix and Janis Joplin) became the most popular rock music at the time. , but

except for the Grateful Dead, most of the psychedelic groups died quite early. After the decline of psychedelic rock, they immediately entered the glorious rock era

.

After the 1960s, the rock music style of the 1970s was extremely rich, led by David Bowie

Glam rock started in the early 1970s. In addition, in order not to Based on the existing rock types, avant-garde rock, classical rock and art rock also emerged and became the new image of the music industry at that time. Jazz rock also gradually became famous.

In addition, the most popular and longest-lasting heavy rock (heavy metal) throughout the 1970s and 1980s was produced. Perhaps now, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath’s decibel soso, however, in At that time, it could be said that it was a deafening rock type. Since then, heavy metal has been favored by rock fans through continuous evolution. In addition, in the 1970s, there were also music styles that were very different from HM. Country rock, California rock and Southern rock are also popular.

If we say that the great event of the 1960s was the British Invasion, then the great event of the 1970s must be the punk rock that suddenly sprang up in the late 1970s. But just like the psychedelic rock of the late 1960s, Punk doesn't live long either.

In the 1980s, in addition to the punk style that still existed in the early days, heavy metal, sandwiched between the residual power of the 1970s, became the leader

And almost all the glory of the 1980s was dominated by heavy rock (heavy metal). ), but they are still seeking innovation and change, and their style is completely different from the past, so they are also called Sina heavy metal. With the strength of heavy rock, in addition to blue-collar rock,

In addition to pop rock and rock that combines reggae style, to be able to make a breakthrough, you have to win with skills, so some

rock that emphasizes fast play and speed came into being, and they caused The trend cannot be underestimated, and Sujin still has a broad audience to this day.

The next rock trend in the early 1990s was the Seattle sound grunge rock, but it was soon overwhelmed by the British rock music full of electronic music.

Because these bands from all over the UK The band quickly conquered a new generation of rock fans, so it was called the second British Invasion. In addition, some alternative rock styles with punk or electronic sounds in the late 1990s also gained quite a few fans. Maybe the rock trend is no longer there, as MacArthur said, old soldiers never die

It is just dying, but new blood of rock and roll is constantly being produced, electronic music, industrial, hip-hop..., maybe the rock genre is no longer what it used to be

In the past, it was at least a continuation of another rock type.