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Archive for August 30th, 2008

Walk Down the Rock ‘N’ Roll Memory Lane

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

A genre of music that has the most ardent admirers and fans evolved around the latter half of 1940s as well as the early part of 1950s. In fact, Rock ‘n’ Roll is a composite mixture of various popular genres of music of that period and this includes blues, gospel, folk music, and various electric forms that were being experimented with in Chicago, Memphis, New Orleans, California, and Texas. As a result of this, there is a depth in Rock ‘n’ Roll music that can’t be seen or found in any other genre of music even today.

When you mix Rock ‘n’ Roll with guitars, screaming fans and social ideologies then it forms an intoxicating blend of superlative form of art and expression. This is the exact reason why it has had a deeper social impact and to a great degree has influenced attitude, fashion, events in daily life and even language. Although the Rockabilly lifestyle was high on sex and drugs, fashion crept in to bring the leather-clad and to an extent sexist image of the early rockers. The most prominent fashion was the hippie fashion, which caught on like wild fire in the 1960′s and was at the heart of Woodstock.