Rock

In the mid 1950’s the world was

shaken by a new type of music:

Rockabilly.

Rockabilly was a combination of

country and African American

R&B music, that was made

popular by white male artists.

THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL

• Sold over one billion records

• Starred in 33 successful films

• Received over 150 awards, 3 of which were Grammys

• 30 #1 hits

•5 times platinum

Woodstock Video

Rolling Stone has called it "the most famous

event in rock history." The Woodstock Music

and Art Fair, on a 600-acre farm in the

township of Bethel, New York, from August

15-18, 1969, represents more than a peaceful

gathering of 500,000 people and 32 musical

performances.

• Janis Joplin

• The Who

•Jimmy Hendrix

•The Grateful Dead

•Creedence Clearwater Revival

The 70’s

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In the 1980’s popular rock diversified. Artists like Van Halen and Queen showed their skills with guitar rock, while artist such as Bob Segar and John Cougar Mellencamp developed a style known as Heartland Rock.

•Def Leppard is an English rock band who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement

•They became one of the top-selling rock bands throughout the 1980s, selling over 65 million albums world wide

•Ranked #31 on VH1's "Greatest Artists of Hard Rock"

•Collaborated with popular country star, Taylor Swift, on CMT’s Crossroads

Crossroads PerformanceDrummer: Rick Allen

Current Rock

• There has been a decline in rock music recently.

• A new development of rock music is mixing music genres such as rap-rock, electronic rock, and new rave.

• Linkin Park

• The Ting Tings

• Franz Ferdinand

• 3 Doors Down

Ideas for the Classroom

• Genre study of the types of rock music.

• Visual History

• Making rock instruments

• Rock Band

• Anti-Drug Lesson

• Why the youth reform their rock music every generation.

Resources

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rock_genres

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Rock_Music

• Publishing, DK. Punk. New York: DK ADULT, 2006. Print.

• U2, and Neil Mccormick. U2 by U2. New York: HarperEntertainment, 2006. Print.

• http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4595384/

• www.youtube.com