Before I or other members of my class can begin to construct and piece together our music magazines, we have to take images over the half term to place on the front cover of our magazine. In order to do so, we have to be aware of what genre/theme we want our magazine to take. I myself am a particular fan of the classic 'rock and roll' sub-genre of music; therefore, over the half term I shall focus on taking pictures of a young, and up-and-coming rock chic.
However, before this task can be undertaken I have needed to research into the history of this genre further. To do this, I looked at three different articles.
 |
| Little Richard |
 |
| Elvis Presley |
- 1950's = many African-Americans migrated to urban cities for jobs
- so lived in close proximity with whites; which resulted in an overlap between 2 cultures
- i.e; Rock 'n' Roll was formed from Rhythm and Blues
- Elvis Presley was a popular example of the influence of rock 'n' roll youth culture
- born January 8 1935 (Tupelo, Mississippi)
- moved to Memphis, Tennessee and created music by recording at Sun Records in 1954
- 1950's = parents disapproved of rock 'n' roll; thought it promoted juvenile delinquency
- music connoted sexual topics
- parents were terrified
- so teens wanted to listen to it, to rebel; it made them feel that they belonged to something
 |
| The Rolling Stones logo |
- 1955 = replaced jazz and pop standards in commercial prominence
- discussed as the "charged collisions of two racially separate genres"
- African-American and Rhythm and Blues/white country music
- Genre embraced by teenagers - often middle-class/Northern/white
- music genres have the styles of clothing/language/behaviour closely linked
- providing adolescents with the essential basis for the common discovery of identity.
- Rock and Roll has developed;
- began in 1950's = associated with teenagers of 2 kinds;
- BOYS = juvenile delinquents
- GIRLS = insipid sock hoppers screaming for manufactured idols on TV shows such as "American Bandstand".
- Sociologists and similar media probes saw rock and rollers as innocents manipulated by mass culture.
- 1960's = rock and roll had now become rock alone
- an Anglo-American art form associated with politicised folk music.
- Artists like Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones inspired children and teenagers to pick up electric guitars/grow long hair/experiment in sex and drugs
- but rock and roll lost its exhilarating inspiration
- e.g; at a Rolling Stones gig in California saw the murder of a young black man
- rock lost its innocence - yet this only attracted a larger audience.
- DIVISIONS; by the mid-1970's rock had lost its influence
- replaced by 'punk'
 |
| The Beatles |
- inspired an audience who still looked to rock; i.e; bands such as "Nirvana" (1991)
- Music is central to youth culture
- at a teenage party it's not a question of what you do, but what you do listen to.
- Music matters to youth
- they cannot be understood without a serious consideration of how it fits into their lives - "it alters mood and intensifies it. Furnishes much of their slang, dominates their conversations and provides the ambiance at their social gatherings."
- Music is used by youth to control mood
- whether to enhance a good or bad one; yet if a song contains violent/discriminative lyrics, it can be known to have led to suicide or violent crimes.
- Adolescents use music to gain information about the adult world and withdraw from social contact
an interesting choice of articles. I hope it has given you some ideas of what you could create for your own magazine. Consider some of the issues explored in the presentations to raise the academic level of response for your DPS
ReplyDelete