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Encyclopedia > Heartland rock

In the late 1970s - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes.css; @import /skins/monobook/IE55Fixes.css; @import /skins/monobook/IE60Fixes.css; /**/ 1970s From Wikipedia Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of... 1970s and Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology Bulletin board system popularity Popularization of personal computers, Walkmans, VHS videocassette recorders, and compact disc (CD) players Introduction of the IBM PC Home video games become enormously popular, most notably Atari until the market crashes in 1983; the rise... 1980s, one of the most popular forms of Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. As a cultural... rock and roll was heartland rock. It was characterized by a straightforward musical style, a concern with the average American life, and a conviction that rock music had a social or communal purpose beyond just entertainment.


The most prominent heartland rockers during this period were Bruce Springsteen on the cover of magazine. Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American singer and songwriter, nicknamed The Boss. He has frequently recorded and toured with The E Street Band. Springsteen is most widely known for his brand of heartland rock, rock and roll infused... Bruce Springsteen, Robert Clark Bob Seger (May 6, 1945-) was an important figure in American rock and roll and pop music in the 1970s and 1980s, and continues to be influential today. Bob Seger Seger started his musical career in the 1960s in his native Detroit as a singer and as the... Bob Seger, John Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951 in Seymour, Indiana) is an American singer and songwriter, known for a long and successful recording and performing career highlighted by a series of 1980s hits, including Jack and Diane, and by his role in the Farm Aid charity event. As a child, Mellencamp... John Mellencamp, and Tom Petty Thomas Earl Petty (born October 20, 1953 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American musician. Petty did not have any musical aspirations before Elvis Presley visited his hometown. After working with his early bands Sundowners, Epics, and Mudcrutch (which also included future Heartbreakers members Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench... Tom Petty. John Fogerty (born May 28, 1945 in Berkeley, California) is an American singer and songwriter, best known for his time with the southern rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival. Fogertys family name is Irish, an Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name , from , meaning banished, outlawed (Hanks & Hodges, [Oxford... John Fogerty's solo work also fit the mold, with his Creedence Clearwater Revival is the name of an American rock band, fronted by John Fogerty. The band started out as The Blue Velvets, formed by Tom Fogerty in El Cerrito, Contra Costa County, California in the late 1950s. By the mid 1960s, the band signed a record contract, had their... Creedence Clearwater Revival having been a notable heartland antecedent. Various other artists were also sometimes given this label, although the lack of any purely musical definition makes an exact delineation of heartland difficult.


The quintessential heartland rock album was probably State nickname: Other U.S. States Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Governor Mitch Daniels Official languages English Area 94,321 km² (38th)  - Land 92,897 km²  - Water 1,424 km² (1.5%) Population (2000)  - Population 6,080,485 (14th)  - Density 65.46 /km² (16th... Indiana-native Mellencamp's Scarecrow, with its depictions of struggling The family farm is a farm owned and operated by a family. It is the basic unit of the mostly-agricultural economy of much of human history and continues to be so in developing nations. Alternatives to family farms include those run by agribusiness or collective farming. In developed nations... family farmers, odes to small town life, tales of the passing of generations, and tributes to the redemptive power of rock 'n' roll.


In concert, heartland rock often took the form of crowd-rousing A rock and roll anthem is a celebratory rock and roll song. The subject that the anthem celebrates can vary, although one common anthemic theme is the celebration of rock and roll for itself. Chuck Berry probably wrote more of these than any other songwriter: School Days (1956) Hail, Hail... anthems, leading to comparisons with Arena rock is a loosely defined style of rock music. Arena rock is usually medium hard rock, but lacks the edginess or rage often inherent in heavy metal. Simple rhythms, acoustic/electric guitar interplay, and keyboards define the instrumental sound, and vocally the music is far closer to mainstream pop... arena rock.


Heartland rock faded away as a recognized genre by the early Events and trends Technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM... 1990s, as rock music in general lost influence with younger audiences and as heartland's artists turned to more personal works.

Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. As a cultural... Rock and roll | This is a list of music genres derived from rock and roll Modern Rock Alternative Rock Rock en Español Experimental Rock Indie Rock Noise Rock Post Rock Space Rock Jam Rock Goth Rock Rock Classic Rock Acid Rock Garage Rock Blues Rock British Blues Rock British Invasion Folk Rock... Rock genres
Art rock is a sub-genre of rock music that is characterized by ambitious lyrical themes and melodic or rhythmic experimentation, often extending beyond standard pop song forms and toward influences in jazz, classical, or the avant garde. The art rock designation is a vague one, since few of today... Art rock | Cello rock is a genre of music characterized by the use of cellos and other stringed instruments such as violin and viola to create a sound, beat, and texture similar to that of rock music. The cellos and other stringed instruments are often electronically amplified and/or electronically modified. They... Cello rock | Desert Rock is a term given to several bands that hail from the California desert. Many times, these bands are labeled stoner metal. However, the bands out of the desert sometimes have heavy Latin influences and/or repetitive drum beats, and psychedelia. Another sub-genre of desert rock is robot... Desert rock | Detroit rock is the name for a style of Australian indie rock, particularly popular in Sydney in the 1980s. The style was popularised and heavily influenced by Radio Birdman, who formed in Sydney but were led by Deniz Tek, a Detroit, Michigan native, and also influenced by such Detroit bands... Detroit rock | Dialect rock | Emo (originally short for emocore, itself a contraction of emotional hardcore, now usually an abbreviation of emotional) is a term now broadly used to describe almost any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that expresses emotions beyond traditional punks limited emotional palette of alienation and rage. It is also... Emo | Garage rock was a simple, raw form of rock and roll created by a number of American bands in the mid-1960s. Inspired by British Invasion bands like The Beatles, The Kinks, and The Rolling Stones, these mostly midwestern American groups played a variation on British Invasion rock. (While the... Garage rock | A girl group is the equivalent of a boy band, but, as the name implies, featuring a group of female rather than male singers. Early Girl Groups Whilst exact definitions are of course arbitrary, it can be argued that the girl bands have a considerably longer history than boy bands... Girl group | Glam rock is a style of rock music popularised in the 1970s, and was mostly a British phenomenon. It was distinguished by the costumes and stage acts of the performers rather than any particular aspect of their music. The emphasis was on superficiality and an unabashed embracing of fame and... Glam rock | Glitter rock, a short-lived genre in the mid-1970s, was an extreme exploration of the fantasy-side of the reality-fantasy parents of heavy metal. Was staylized by the flashy appearance of the performers. The music merged theatrics and rock music of the early to late 1970s. There... Glitter rock | Hard rock is a form of rock and roll music that finds its closest roots in early 1960s garage rock. AC/DC, The Stooges, MC5, Guns N Roses, Jimi Hendrix and Deep Purple are renowned examples of hard rock. Van Halens music (until David Lee Roths departure in... Hard rock | Heartland rock | From its earliest days, rock and roll emphasized catchy melodies, which were usually presented with easily remembered lyrics. That wasnt always the case, however, and if the melodies were strong enough, rock and roll instrumentals could catch on and become hits. That happened most frequently during rocks early... Instrumental rock | The term jam band is commonly used to describe psychedelic rock-influenced bands whose concerts largely consist of bands reinterpreting their songs as springboards into extended improvisational pieces of music. The term less describes a set genre of music than it does provide a label for vastly different bands for... Jam band | Jangle pop was an American musical genre that arose in the middle of the 1960s, combining angular, chiming guitars and power pop structures. The first and most famous jangle pop band was The Byrds, who eventually became one of the biggest bands in the world. Their twelve-stringe guitar style... Jangle pop | The term post-rock was coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of (May 1994) to describe a sort of music using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and powerchords. Originally used to describe the music of such bands... Post-rock | Power pop is a long-standing musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop music. Lyrically, power-pop songs largely confine themselves to the perpetual theme of romantic love, and musically the style is characterized by strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements and prominent guitar... Power pop | Psychedelic music draws its inspiration from the experience of mind-altering drugs such as cannabis, psilocybin, mescaline, ecstasy and especially LSD. Characteristic features of the style include modal melodies, lengthy instrumental solos, esoteric lyrics and trippy special effects such as reversed, distorted, delayed and/or phased sounds. History In the... Psychedelia | Pub rock is a style of Australian rock and roll popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s and still influencing contemporary Australian music today. The term came from the venues at which most of these bands originally played at: inner-suburban pubs (short for the British term which is rarely used... Pub rock (Aussie) | Pub rock was a mid to late 1970s musical movement, largely centred around North London and South East Essex, particularly Canvey Island and Southend on Sea. Pub rock was largely a reaction to much of the popular music of the era, which tended to be dominated by progressive rock and... Pub rock (UK) | Rock en Español | Soft rock, also referred to as lite rock, easy rock, and formally Mellow rock, is a style of music which uses the techniques of rock and roll to compose a softer, supposedly more ear-pleasing sound for listening, often at work. The appropriation of the term rock for music which... Soft rock | Southern rock is a style of rock music that was very popular in the 1970s, and retains a fan base to the present. Rock musics origins lie mostly in the music of southerners, and many stars from the first wave of rock and roll such as Elvis Presley, Little... Southern rock | In the early 1960s, one of the most popular forms of rock and roll was surf rock. It is characterized by being nearly entirely instrumental and by heavy use of reverb on the guitars. The spring reverb featured in Fender amplifiers of the day, cranked to its maximum volume, produced... Surf | Symphonic rock is a style of rock music (see rock and roll) that incorporates elements from classical music. Such elements can for example be classical instruments, classical themes or classical composition schemes. Other characteristics are that the music is often complex, at least when compared to other types of rock... Symphonic rock
Aboriginal rock is a rather nebulous term for a style of music which mixes traditional rock music elements (guitar, drums, bass etc) with the instrumentation of the Australian Aborigines (Didjeridu, clap-sticks etc). Performed almost exclusively by Aborigine-only bands - although some Anglo-Australians feature in some bands - the resulting... Aboriginal rock | Anadolu rock | Blues Rock or Blues-rock is a fusion genre of music which combines elements of the blues with rock and roll. It is a particular style developed in the 1960s, a good example being The Rolling Stones who experimented with music from the old Bluesmen like Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters... Blues-rock | Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s. Boogaloo originated in New York City among teenage Cubans and Puerto Ricans. The style was a fusion of popular African American R&B... Boogaloo | Country rock is a musical genre formed from the fusion of rock and roll with country music. While such cross-pollination has occurred throughout the history of both genres, the term is usually used to refer to the wave of groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s who began... Country rock | Cumbia rock | Flamenco-rock | Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. In the original and narrowest sense, the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and Canada around 1960s. The sound was epitomized by tight vocal harmonies and a relatively clean (effects- and... Folk-rock | Indo-rock | Madchester refers to a period during the late 1980s and early 1990s when Manchester was the focus for a lot of the new musical talent hitting the UK indie music scene. During this period rock bands such as Inspiral Carpets (from Oldham), The Stone Roses, and The Happy Mondays emanated... Madchester | Merseybeat, sometimes referred to as Merseysound, was a style of music popular during the 1960s. It originated in Liverpool, England as a fusion of rock and roll, skiffle and R&B and remained popular only locally until the breakthrough success of the Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers and Cilla... Merseybeat | The progressive rock band Yes performing in 1977. Progressive rock (prog) is an ambitious, eclectic, and often grandiose style of rock music which arose in the late 1960s principally in England, reaching the peak of its popularity in the early 1970s, but continuing as a musical form to this day... Progressive rock | Punta rock is a form of the traditional punta rhythm of the Garifuna people of Central America. In the late 1970s, Penn Cayetano, a Garifuna artist, began to compose songs in the Garifuna language. He added the rhythm of the electric guitar to the traditional punta rhythm and created what... Punta rock | Raga rock | Raï rock | Rockabilly is one of the component parts of rock and roll. It is a style of music made famous during the 1950s by American performers. In that decade, the music was propelled by catchy beats, an electric guitar and an upright bass which was played using the slap-back technique... Rockabilly | Samba-rock - Tango rockéro

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Rock and roll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1742 words)
Rock and roll (also spelled rock 'n' roll, especially in its first decade), is a genre of music that emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s.
Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be heard in rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s.
Early rock and roll combined elements of blues, boogie woogie, jazz and rhythm and blues, and is also influenced by traditional Appalachian folk music, gospel and country and western.
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