Sunday, November 1, 2009
360 Degrees: Rock and Roll
It's amazing and basically shaped the entire end of the 20th century. Many people, particularly the ones from that generation, think it turned music from fluffy crap to hard core good stuff. Or, to the people happy with the charlston it could be an anathema to this world and a bad influence on the younger generations. The reason why there are druggies and crazy rebels. The reason the Vietnam war was so opposed. Or, It could be the greatest thing ever heard. Or just noise. These are probably the most common opinions for those opposed and for Rock and Roll music. How did some simple songs about life become the most controversial and life changing things in the '60s and '70s? Why were most of the older people afraid of it? Surely they had some life changing music in their days. I decided to do Rock and Roll because of the new movie "Pirate Radio" about a bunch of people who decide to illegally broadcast Rock and Roll in the time when The UK's government banned it from the radio. What if they banned Rock and Roll for good, so it was never heard from again? How different would life be? Can one genre change the world? I guess so!
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Rebekah,
ReplyDeleteBeing a rock and roll lover myself, I really enjoyed reading your post. I have also experienced others' varying opinions of rock music, but this post raises many interesting questions. Music is a very very powerful form of expression, and I think that it was the driving force behind many of the revolutions of thought and societal values in the 60s and 70s. It became a strong foundation for many people and propelled their causes forward. With so many effects associated with it, maybe rock and roll did change the world.