Tweet 13/06/2014 11:41 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll We're filming this lecture for YouTube so watch this space! 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:44 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll In the history of Rock and Roll, did White America provide anything? 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:46 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll Music from The Hills - white music had the same four chords. Hank Williams dressed as a cowboy. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:47 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll Next to the black music, Hanks Williams' music sounded very 'sweet'. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:50 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll Authenticity and fakery - Hank wrote to sell records to white people. Black music was authentic experiences. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:51 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll After WWII, teenagers were 'invented' in America. Manufactured primarily by US marketing. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:52 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll Young white Americans started to hear the music by people such as Ray Charles. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:54 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll "Chuck Berry was arguably the first musician to use an electric guitar" 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 11:59 AM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll Elvis was not the first white 'rock and roller'. Bill Haley was. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:00 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll "Rock around the Clock" was a huge hit 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:01 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll Everyone who bought it was over 40. The advertising executives missed their target market. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:03 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll All Elvis Presley songs were written for him. He managed to marry the black tradition with the white tradition. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:05 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll Hound Dog was the black tradition; But it virtually invented white rock and roll. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:07 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll "Hound Dog was not really authentic but it is a brilliant track" 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:11 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll "Britain had an Elvis - Cliff Richard" 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:13 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll What happens next? Rock and Roll was dying in the US, but in Britain US records would come in and it was new. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:16 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll "The Beatles tried to sing a Chuck Berry song" It lacks for some people authenticity, you can't "feel" it. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:17 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll An Important moment in Rock and Roll - a song which doesn't play 3 chords - The Beatles introduced new chords. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:19 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll The Beatles introduced new chords into blues based songs. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:22 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll The Beatles should be thanked for the modern melodies we hear today. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:23 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll Also in London, The Rolling Stones kept the chords but would put in an extra chord in somewhere & "popify" it. 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
Tweet 13/06/2014 12:27 PM #LectureWeek2014 #RocknRoll The Rolling Stones early on had American themes. They stopped it sounding like the blues by putting in 4th chord 0 0 2014 13/06/2014
