History+of+Rock

include component="comments" page="History of Rock " limit="10" Rock On! This page will be devoted to the History of Rock music in America. You will find assignments and resources on this page.

http://rockmusic.mu

Historic clip on youtube: [|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAK19xrjYxY__]

Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame: [|__http://rockhall.com/story-of-rock/__]

Resource with history and timeline: [|__http://www.shmoop.com/history-of-rock/__]

Brief intro: [|__http://thehistoryofrockmusic.com__]

Popular Music-Tin Pan Alley

The United States has experienced two great eras of mainstream Popular Music in the 20th Century.

The first was called **Tin Pan Alley**, and it remained a force in popular culture from the early 1900’s through WWII. The second was Rock and Roll, which emerged after WWII and continues to influence music today.

In the years before recorded music, writers and publishers worked together in the Broadway district of New York City to produce **sheet music** to play on the piano.

The **piano** was a popular form of Middle Class home entertainment, and having one in your home was a sign of upward mobility and good taste.

The music style was called Tin Pan Alley because of the sound of the tinny upright pianos that the writers used in the studios where the music industry was blossoming.

Go to: Tin Pan Alley Parlor Songs:

[|__http://parlorsongs.com/insearch/tinpanalley/tinpanalley.php__]

The music of Tin Pan Alley was light hearted ad urbane. It appealed to the middle class and was not aimed at any one age group. Tin Pan Alley melded European High Culture with American Folk Culture to produce a Popular Culture of Music.

Go To: Tin Pan Alley Project website:

[|__http://tinpanalleyproject.com__]/

Some of the early pop artists were **Irving Berlin**, a songwriter.


 * John Philip Sousa** and his Marine Band marches, and **George M. Cohan** wrote popular numbers for the theatre. **Vaudeville** opera houses also popularized artists **Oscar Hammerstein** and **Flo Ziegfeld**.

Other notable songwriters were **Rodgers and Hart**, **Cole Porter**, **George Gershwin**.

The **Harlem Renaissance** influenced pop music and integrated the sounds of **Ragtime**, **Jazz** and **Blues** into the popular music sound.

(This will be a topic for project: how the Harlem Renaissance influenced Pop Music.)

Songwriters began to copyright their music with the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. **ASCAP**. The Untied States Library of Congress issues a copyright to the artist.

Popular music led to marketing and promotion of the artists and music.

As technology developed, the availability of recorded music in the form of cylinders, records, and broadcast radio influenced American Culture and formed a burgeoning **music industry**.

(Also a topic for further investigation and presentation: How Technology has influenced Music)

An example of technology influencing music was Thomas Edison’s invention of the **phonograph** and the advent of the “talkie” movie. The phonograph enabled people to have entertainment in their own homes. The movie, //The Jazz Singer,// started the rush to create **soundtracks** for Hollywood movies. (Another good suggestion for project or presentation: How the popularity of early musicals influenced music.)

Early movie artists were Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, Kate Smith and the Mills Brothers.