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Early music styles
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European classical
plantation songs Field hollars call and response American classical like John Phillips Sousa Folk music (hymns and ballads) music of New Orleans (creoles of congo square doing improvisation over existing melodies) Country Blues -12 bar form, 3 sets of 4, poetic stanza Church music (chords, hymns) |
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Ragtime Music
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New Orleans 1890s
piano based - Scott Joplin started a dance craze syncopation - emphasis on the down beat sheet music and piano rolls being sold |
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Boogie woogie (origins 1870s)
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Revival in 1928
solo pianist 8 beat rhythm to the bar Pinetop Smith, Jimmy Yancey, Meade Lux Lewis |
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Jump Blues (from Swing)
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Louis Jordan - saxaphone player
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Country Music (Atlanta, Nashville)
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Jimmie Rodgers - known for yodeling, father of country music
Merie Travis Bill Monroe - bluegrass Hank Williams, Sr. - "Move it on Over" |
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Bill Haley and His Comets
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1952-1981
one of the earliest rock bands did rendition of "Shake, Rattle, Roll" (originally by Big Joe turner 1930s) |
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Ike Turner ad Jackie Brenston
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Their song "Rocket 88" is considered the first rock and roll song
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Alan Freed
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Cleveland Ohio
Rock and Roll Show Moondog Show credited with coining the name rock and roll career ended by payola hearings |
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Cross over artists
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Black artists playing on white radio
Antoine Fats Domino Little Richie Chuck Berry |
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Antoine "Fats" Domino (b. 1928
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New Orleans sound/style of R&B
boogie woogie-played piano "Blueberry Hill" 12/8 beat "Im Walking" end of 50s Triplet based rythmn |
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Little Richie (Richard Penniman, b. 1932 Georgia)
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Influenced by gospel
R&B, boogie woogie-piano based famous whoop noise onstage energy/delivery 1955- "tutti frutti" - 12 bar "Lucille" was in 3 movies between 1955-57 The Girl Can't Help It (56) |
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Chuck Berry (b. 1926 St.Louis)
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Counrty/western, swing, rockabilly
wrote his own songs** Lyrics directed at a young audience "Johnny B. Goode" Alan Freed played his son "Maybelline" on the radip Infused electric guitar while singing |
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Rockabilly artists
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Chuck Berry
Elvis Presley Johhny Cash Jerry Lee Lewis Carl Perkins Buddy Holly |
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Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
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Influenced by church music
Sam Phillips of sun records in Memphis started his career "That's Alright Mama" "Hounddog", "Love me Tender" re-does blue suede shoes and it becomes a hit recording contract is sold to RCA "heartbreak hotel" - first #1 for RCA idol for boys and girls bc of looks pop culture icon 1958- drafted into army 1960- elvis is back (movie/soundtrack album) Graceland- retreats out of public eye Nov 1968- comeback concert |
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Scotty Moore
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Played guitar for Elvis
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