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Rock Music
Tyler, Joey, Emily,
Travis, and Greg like rock music.
Tyler likes AC/DC because
they sing loud and he likes the instruments that they play. Emily
likes Offspring because they have good songs and it is like rap and rock.
She likes the song "Pretty Fly For a White Guy." Joey likes Will Smith
because he has a nice beat to his songs and he likes the videos that he
has made. He especially likes the song "Gettin' Jiggy With It."
Greg likes the radio station Z-106. It has some music with a fast
beat and with a slow beat.
Travis likes Def Leppard
because it has a good beat and because it is loud.
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Teacher Jay
Phillips <jsphilli@access.k12.wv.us>
Kanawha School, Davisville,
West Virginia, USA
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Rock and roll in music is
a style that arose in the United States in the mid-1950s and through both
the assimilation and evolution of other styles and the gradual broadening
of the name itself came to be the dominant form of popular music. It was
spread as well to Europe and other parts of the world.
This kind of music utilized
a wide variety of instruments such as electric guitars, including bass,
rhythm, lead, and drums. Also other instruments are used: electric
piano, electric organ, and music synthesizer, along with horns, woodwinds,
and minor percussion instruments.
Elvis Presley achieved an
overwhelming popularity with his combination of country-and-western and
blues elements with resonant and skillful vocals.
Several years after a number
of influences combined to lift rock out of what by then had become a bland,
sentimental, and basically mechanical format. At the same time, Bob Dylan
and other performers were developing a mixture of traditional ballad and
verse forms with rock rhythms and instrumentation.
The music of Beatles group
had its origins in the rock and roll of the 1950s and young musicians began
to explore rock's ability to deal with social and political themes. Later
it is also known that this kind of music introduced Jamaican reggae music
and other form of rock music.
Catalina
Burga
"D. Zamfirescu" School,
Focsani, Romania
Teacher Petru Dumitru <petrudumitru@netscape.net>
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Russian rock-music
In USSR rock-music began
its development very late because it was first forbidden. New music appeared
in Russia under the influence of the American and English groups such as
"Beatles" and "Queen".
In 1975 rock-music came to
USSR with the rock-operas ""Juno" and "Avos"" and "Orphey and Euridice".
Since then numerous rock-groups have appeared.they are: "Aqarium", "Kino",
"Nautilus Pompilius", "Agata Kristie", "Gorky park", "Time mashine", "Brigade
S", "Mumiy Troll" etc. The character of rock-music changed over the last
25 years. Lots of rock-trents appeared.
"Time machine". The leader
of the group is Andrey Makarevich. He is also an author of lyrics and music
of the group. It is one of the oldest and most popular group, which is
rather popular now.
Songs of this group are full
of romanticism. Best songs: "Puppets", "My friend", "Blue bird", "Paper
wings of love", "Talking in train". "Kino" ("Cinema"). The leader of the
group is Victor Tsoy. The group dissolved after the death of its leader.
This rock-groups very popular with young people and it is said to be the
legend of the Russian rock. The rock of "Kino" was harder than those of
"Time machine". Best songs: "We saw the night", "Films", "Night", "The
last hero", "Just reflection of life", "Game", "Gorky park".
The leader of the group is
Alexander Marshall. The group sang songs in English and was rather popular
with the people living in USA. Best songs: "Moscow calling", "Stranger",
"Tell me why", "Jenny loses me".
Botonogov Stanislav and
Kornievich Svetlana
Gymnasium No.1, Minsk, Belarus
<gimnsol@gimnsol.belpak.minsk.by>
Teacher Alex Obukhov
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