ROCK HISTORY – IT’S STILL ROCK N ROLL TO MEROCK HISTORY – IT’S STILL ROCK N ROLL TO ME
Back in 1980, singer-songwriter Billy Joel was already railing against the stratification of rock & pop music.
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ROCK HISTORY : FROM R&B TO ROCK N ROLL – ESSENTIAL SONGSROCK HISTORY : FROM R&B TO ROCK N ROLL – ESSENTIAL SONGS
Rhythm & Blues is the bedrock of much of modern rock and pop music. Basically R&B is a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was coined in the post-war years to replace “Race Music”, meaning – “a catchall term referring to any music that was made by and for black Americans”.
ROCK HISTORY: IF NINETIES ROCK WAS SIXTIES POPROCK HISTORY: IF NINETIES ROCK WAS SIXTIES POP
In our humble opinion, the Nineties represented perhaps the final great rock decade before being utterly overwhelmed by hip-hop music as the defining modern cultural zeitgeist. But what is interesting to note is that in many ways, much of the rock music made in the Nineties reflected nostalgically the pop music of the Sixties. Here are some examples for your consideration.