2024-01-24

Wednesday, January 24th, 2024

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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MUS106 Lecture 7

Listening Quiz 1 Today (week 1 - week 2)

• Chuck Berry (1926-2017)
  • “father of rock and roll”
  • bio
    • Black man born in St Louis, Chicago (conservative town known for racism)
    • Great Migration
  • blues background, bluegrass and western swing influence
  • first singer-songwriter—wrote and performed his own songs
  • loses 2/3 of his songwriting credit/copyright
  • First class in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  • Chess Records
    • ”Maybellene” topped R&B chart and got 5th on Pop chart
      • version of Bob Wills’ “Ida Red”
    • cross-over: blues to pop audience, country to R&B audience
  • ”The Shakespeare of Rock and Roll” (quote from Bob Dylan)
  • dance moves during live performance
  • ”Roll Over Beethoven”
    • connects youth culture and parents of the youth (reference to Blue Suede Shoes by Carl Perkins, and to Beethoven & Tchaikovsky)
  • features
    • 12-bar blues
    • guitar riffs (as hooks)
  • legacy
    • solos & riffs
    • showmanship
    • covered by more than a thousand of other artists