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History of Rock

Final Review

Kattari - Fall 2019

This is not an all-inclusive review sheet. The exam is partly based on the Punk to Grunge material of Unit 4 and partly designed to evaluate your general retention of the material we have covered this semester. In terms of the latter, I emphasize the key points and broad knowledge I want you to walk away with having taken this course. Review previous review sheets. Review the artists we’ve studied, what genres they represent, and what musical characteristics define each genre. LISTENING EXAMPLES: For each track, you might have to identify the type of music that it represents, the specific performer and/or producer it is associated with (if we studied them as a key performer), its approximate date, notable or identifying musical characteristics, and/or its socio-cultural and/or historical significance. UNIT 4 MATERIAL (Punk to Grunge): Proto-Punk: Velvet Underground, MC5, Andy Warhol, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, New York Dolls, what was “proto-punk” about these bands? Punk: DIY, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, CBGBs, reverse British Invasion, the Bill Grundy incident, the Queen’s Jubilee, Malcolm McLaren, what things defined the punk rock ideology and punk rock music of the 1970s? how and why was it a reaction against progressive rock? what was different about the rise of punk rock in the U.S. versus England? how were The Clash and Sex Pistols different from each other? what happened to Sex Pistols as they became more and more famous? contradiction between punk and mainstream success, hardcore punk characteristics, satire and irony, Black Flag, Minor Threat, straight-edge philosophy, how was hardcore a reaction to what happened to punk in the late 1970s? Heavy Metal: NWOBHM characteristics and bands, glam metal characteristics and examples, thrash metal characteristics and examples Grunge: the “politics of family damage,” Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit, “Jeremy,” Pearl Jam, the defining ideology of “alternative,” the mainstreaming of alternative bands, the identifying musical, ideological, and geographic characteristics of grunge CUMULATIVE MATERIAL: Know the general development of rock’n’roll that we’ve discussed. Be sure to particularly remember: - there has been Anglo-American and African-American folk music upon arrival of those groups - minstrelsy (18320-1900) as the beginning of America’s own popular music - Tin Pan Alley (1890-1950) established America’s popular music industry - commercialization of blues (1920s and 30s) and its development into R&B (post-WWII 1940s) - commercialization of hillbilly (1920s and 30s) and its development into C&W (post-WWII 1940s) - why was “rock’n’roll” coined by Alan Freed to describe the R&B music he played on the radio? - whites from C&W and pop backgrounds covered R&B hits (late 1940s, early 1950s) - whites and blacks wrote original R&R music in a style that combined R&B and C&W (mid-late 1950s) - why did rock’n’roll shock many people at the time?

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simultaneously, the first urban folk movement used folk songs for political purposes (1940s, 1950s) decline of rock’n’roll in late 1950s first British Invasion (around 1964) reinvigorated rock second urban folk music revival associated with political activism in the early to mid 1960s Bob Dylan combined the meaning of folk with the electric rock sound: folk rock (1965) the counter-culture and psychedelic rock (mid-late 1960s) the beginnings of “art rock” in the mid-late 1960s (i.e. rivalry between The Beach Boys and The Beatles) Jimi Hendrix and The Who, pushing the capabilities of the electric guitar and theatricality (late 1960s) diffusion of styles of rock sub-genres in the 70s: heavy metal, glam rock, prog rock, shock rock, punk rock (and others we didn’t go into) o some groups/genres (like proto-punk, early metal/hard rock, shock rock) started to react against the counterculture with a heavier style (late 60s-early 70s) o glam rock and prog rock grow out of psychedelia and art rock but take on different defining characteristics (late 60s-early 70s) o punk surfaces as a return to the basics of rock’n’roll (a reaction against corporate, self-indulgent music) and as a politicized response to the recession (mid-late 70s) o NWOBHM develops as a more escapist response to that same recession (mid-70s to mid-80s), although may use the supernatural to symbolize oppressive powers 1980s birth of MTV, the recession in sales, Bruce Springsteen, glam metal alternative rock, punk, and metal in the 1980s/1990s (hardcore punk, thrash, grunge) as a reaction against the corporatization and dilution of once-rebellious punk and metal, but struggle with how to distribute music without being co-opted

Review some of the important artists we’ve covered from previous units. For each of these, I’d hope you can remember what genre they represent and their overall significant to rock history, including, if relevant, geography, approximate date, and important historical or social context or impact. - Stephen Foster - Robert Johnson - Jimmie Rodgers - Muddy Waters - Big Mama Thornton - Hank Williams - Bill Haley - Chuck Berry and Little Richard - Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Sam Phillips - Janis Martin, Wanda Jackson, Brenda Lee, Lorrie Collins - Ritchie Valens - Pat Boone - Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, The Weavers - Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Joan Baez - The Beach Boys and The Beatles - Bob Dylan and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Byrds - Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Doors - The Who and Jimi Hendrix - Iggy Pop and the Stooges, MC5, Velvet Underground - ELP, Yes, King Crimson, Pink Floyd

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Alice Cooper, KISS, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash Motorhead, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden Minor Threat, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam...