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rock music
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...rock music, type of music originating in the United States in the mid-1950s...Origins of RockEssentially hybrid in origin, rock music includes elements of several black and white American music styles: black guitar-accompanied blues......
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country and western music
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......Country and western music is directly descended...country and western music has gained a nationwide...influenced by African-American blues (see jazz) and gospel music, but the performers...the development of rock music. Since then......
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gospel music
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...gospel music, American religious musical form that owes...of West Africans enslaved in the American South. Gospel music partly evolved from the songs slaves...underlies the "soul" jazz and rock music of the 1950s and 60s. Composer......
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Berry, Chuck
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......Berry) (bĕr´ē), 1926–, American rock music guitarist, singer, and songwriter...one of the leading pioneers of rock music, having blended the blues with...many to be the inventor of the rock music form. His distinctive playing......
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Beatles, The
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...The Beatles, English rock music group formed in the late 1950s...England. Influenced by such American performers as Chuck Berry...The Beatles dominated rock music in the 1960s, eventually...burst on the international rock music scene in 1961. Their......
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Marsalis, Wynton
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......märsăl´Ĭs), 1961–, American trumpeter, bandleader...studied classical music at the Juilliard...brilliant jazz, rock, pop, and classical...Berklee College of Music. Like his brother...Branford played with the rock musician Sting during...1980s and was the music director (1992......
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Stockhausen, Karlheinz
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......frequently employed serial music techniques in his works...proponent of electronic music, and was enormously...also felt by a number of rock, pop, and jazz musicians...adherent of aleatory music and allowed performers...electronic music; Stimmung (American premiere, 1971), for......
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Holly, Buddy
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......Holly, 1936–59, American rock singer, songwriter...country and western music while a teenager...he switched to the rock 'n' roll in the...1986) into the Rock and Roll Hall of...Lehmer, The Day the Music Died (1997, repr......
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Hammond, John Henry
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......1910–87, American record producer; blues, jazz, and rock promoter; and music critic, b. New...American vernacular music, he helped bring...powerful influence on American popular music for over 50 years...blues, folk, and rock performers, including......
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Grateful Dead, The
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...The Grateful Dead, American rock music group formed in 1965 by...the formative acid-rock bands, the Grateful...Tests." They altered rock music by incorporating into...Workingman's Dead, 1970; American Beauty, 1971......