![]() ![]() There was what he called “Northern band rock ‘n’ roll,” represented by Bill Haley and His Comets. Charles Gillett, in his classic text The Sound of the City, points out that by the mid-1950s there were already five distinct strands of rock ‘n’ roll. Goode” was sent up with the Voyager space probes in 1977), that rock was once a small-town, small-time affair. Literally everywhere now (even in deep space, where Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. It is sometimes hard to remember, since rock music is Once regarded by some Christian church leaders as the sound of Satan himself, rock music can now be heard in churches around the world. Rex’s “20th Century Boy” (Mitsubishi), into the mainstream. Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll” is now used to sell Cadillacs other car companies regularly bring once-obscure cult favorites, such as Nick Drake’s “Pink Moon” (Volkswagen) and T. Once a medium for rebellion and voicing social change, rock has become a marketing tool for big business. Once the sound of youthful defiance, rock now crosses generations my senior-age mother likes to listen to U2 alongside Frank Sinatra and Enya. A Finnish group called “4R” has its own version of U2’s signature sound. Japan has a prospering alternative-music scene, from the thrashprogressive group Ruins to the Ramones-style “girl group” Shonen Knife. Germany and other European countries have thriving local hip-hop scenes. Karaoke clubs around the world offer locals the opportunity to sing-to be-Madonna or Bruce Springsteen for a night. Along the way, rock- and those related styles such as rap and R
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |