1. One of the most important events from the American history that had also an impact in the popular music was the war for the civil rights who was led by Martin Luther King.
2. The second event was Woostock.
3. The perception of black people music change from the earliest style in the nineteen century by getting under its umbrella a large range of musical genres like ragtime, jazz, blues, doo-wop, rock and roll, hip-hop, soul ,dance and techno.
4. The Ed Sullivan Show was an American TV variety show hosted by Ed Sullivan and the show hosted live performance that helped on developing the rock music by having groups as The Beatles and Rolling Stones.
17. The British Invasion was a musical movement from the mid of 1960’s composed of groups of British rock-and-roll who spread all over the United States. The representatives of this trend were rock music groups like The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks and The Dave Clark Five.
18. Beatles had tree style period during their carrier
Example of a song: P.S. I love you
The second was Experimentation (1965-1967) Psychedelia period
Example of a song: Yellow Submarine
The third was Maturity (1967-1969)
Example of song: Let it be
19. The reason why “Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” is called to be a concept album is regarding the cover where The Beatles is placed as a fictional group from the title of the material, also the entire album was recorded as a performance by the fictional band because this alter-ego group will give them freedom to experiment musically.
20. “Lucky in the Sky with Diamonds” was innovative for Rock era because made part from the album “Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” which was designed with full lyrics of each song printed in a booklet. The lyrics were full of metaphors and they could transfer you in a magical land.
21. The song “Lucky in the Sky with Diamonds” was controversial because in its lyrics talked about drugs and about a girl with kaleidoscopic eyes that turned to be Yoko Ono.
22. Title: Michelle
Artistry: the song is unique because the melody was written in the Chet Atkins’ finger-picking style.
Artistry: the melody was written on the piano just repeating an E minor chord and putted a melody over turning this into an Asian Indian rhythmic song.
46. A business reason for the Motown was has integrating racially based on a market strategy on having the ability to recognize the opportunity to capture more than just Black American record consumers.
47. A musical reason for the Motown was that each song must have been turned into a hit the music of early Motown resisted that long because it was unique by its distinct sound that rarely deviates from that formula.
48. Cholly Atkins built the Motown dancing look in 1960’s and most importantly he reshaped popular vernacular dances into performing acts that transcended the test of time.
Maxine Powell was also named the Miss Manners of Motown help on building the images of the stars training them how to behave in the spotlight.
49. Berry Gordy played a role in the Civil Rights Movement and it was led by the idea of “Let Freedom Ring” releasing an album being inspired by “I have a dream speech” of Martin Luther King.
50. The doop-wop style was kept in the Motown sound as rhythm and blues and rock and roll vocal music. Generally it was one tenor singing the main melody and the other three or four were keeping the background harmony.
51. In 1950’s was used the term of rock and roll were people were singing country music, blues or swing and the group where form from 4 boys that were singing from the voice. Nowadays the formula has one singer, a guitarist, a bass and a drum kit.
65. The importance of Rolling Stones in American popular music was to promote various hippie ideas and to sustain the young generation in political activism.
66. The Rolling Stones started as a R&B cover band as The Beatles but the difference was that The Rolling Stones went remained in this style while The Beatles had moved to a pop-oriented style.
67. The bass instrument was electrified because of the low sound that couldn’t be heard anymore and they need to make bigger instruments so it was simpler to electrify it.
80. The Motown lyrics transcended race thru personification of romantic song in popular music.
81. I would like to see The Beatles to relive the atmosphere which they created during the concerts and that is not fully playable in records.
92. The singing style in “I get around” by Beach Boys was rock and roll style formed by one soloist singing the main melody and three others that were singing the background harmony.
93. “Good Vibration” by Beach Boys was a unique artistic characteristic that set this song apart from a rock song by using juxtaposes sections varying widely in musical style and incorporated these new sounds along with doo-wop style background vocals.
94. The bass guitar plays the riff in the introduction of the “I heard it through the grapevine” by Marvin Gaye and the phrase “I heard it through the grapevine” is associated with black slaves during the Civil War that made the piece part of the Motown sound.
95. The instruments used in the song “Subterranean Homesick Blues” guitar, vocal, harmonica, piano, acoustic bass, electric bass; drums.
96. Campbell’s idea regarding “essentially freed rock” from Dylan’s piece “Like a Rolling Stone” was that he challenge listener to think then feel and Campbell believed that with the thought provoking lyrics and big score will defeat its self-imposed limitation.
97. “Blowing in the wind” was a protest song because raised a lot of rhetorical questions about peace, freedom and war.
98. The instruments used in “Come See about Me” by Supreme were e-guitar, bass guitar, drum kit, voice, backing vocals.
99. The song “My Girl” by Temptation was a special riff because it starts with six ascending guitar notes in C as a C major pentatonic scale and goes further with F also as a F major pentatonic scale with notes ascending from octave to octave.
100. “Respect” by Aretha Franklin can be describe as a R&B and pop music and became a feminist anthem by becoming “the voice of civil rights”.
101. “Piece of my heart” by Janis Joplin used the singing style of psychedelic rock.
102. The featured solo instrument from “Voodoo Child” from Jimi Hendrix is e-guitar.
103. The instruments used for the song “Papa’s got a brand new bag” were bass, sax, tuba and trumpet, e-guitar, bass, drums and voice.
104. The song “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane lead to controversies because of the cites parallels between the hallucinatory effects of LSD and the imagery found in the fantasy works of Lewis Carroll: 1865's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
105. The theme from the song “Eleanor Rigby” is life and death. The form was a fusion with the popular music of that era as a straightforward verse/chorus form with three verses. The instruments used were a string quartet (two violin, viola and cello).
106. The instrumentation used in “Satisfaction” by Rolling Stones were e-guitar, acoustic guitar, drums, bass guitar, tambourine, lead vocal and backing vocals. The opening riff is played by the e-guitar. In my opinion I think people are going to the concert because “Rolling Stone” is a big name and a legendary group.
