COMM 428: The Rhetoric of Rock Music
COMM 428: The Rhetoric of Rock Music |
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Note: The Rhetoric of Rock Music is based on two major texts; David Szatmary's Rockin' in Time: A Social History of Rock-And-Roll (5th ed.) (Prentice-Hall, 2004) and Anna Tomasino's Music and Culture (Pearson/Longman, 2005). Most of the songs and related items linked below correspond to chapters in those books. This page will be updated regularly until the end of the fall, 2005 semester in December. The photo above is Justin Mitchell (right) and I performing (?) a version of Neil Young's "Rockin in the Free World" at the Oshkosh Algoma Club in the summer of 2004. --Tony
Professor Longhair: Go to the Mardi Gras
http://www.professorlonghair.com/
Fats Domino: Walkin' to New Orleans
http://www.fatsonline.nl/fatsbio.html
Clarence "Frogman" Henry: Ain't Got no Home
Clarence Henry Rockabilly Hall of Fame Entry
September 9: Tunes For Tomasino Chapter 1
Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man (Boston Pops)
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Fanfare for the Common Man
The Beatles: I Want to Hold Your Hand
Richard Berry: Louie Louie (original 1957 version)
The Lyrics and Music of Louie Louie
Big Bill Broonzy: Baby Please Don't Go
Muddy Waters: Got my Mojo Workin'
Howlin Wolf: Moanin at Midnight
Little Walter Jacobs: Boom Boom Out Go The Lights
Elmore James: Dust My Blues
Little Richard: Tutti Frutti
Little Richard with the Beatles
Chuck Berry: Maybelline
September 14: Elvis and Rockabilly
Sam Phillips of Sun Records: "If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars"
Szatmary: "By Late 1956, Sam Phillips had groomed a stable of white country boys who willingly sang with the feeling of black men and the intensity of whirling dervishes, driving white, teenaged girls to hysteria."
Blues Stars v. Rockabilly Stars
Amos Milburn: One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
Delmore Brothers: Blow Your Whistle, Freight Train
Arthur Smith and his Crackerjacks: Guitar Boogie (1948)
Jimmie Rodgers: Pistol Packin' Papa (1930)
Rock Fans Celebrate 50th Anniversary of "That's Alright"
Sun Records "Big Four": Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis
Johnny Cash: I Walk the Line (1956)
Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison Blues (1955)
Carl Perkins: Blue Suede Shoes (1955)
Carl Perkins: Honey Don't (1955)
Jerry Lee Lewis: Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On (1957)
Jerry Lee Lewis: Great Balls of Fire (1957)
Other Sun Artists: Billy Lee Riley, Roy Orbison, Ray Harris, Sonny Burgess
Billy Lee Riley: Flying Saucer Rock and Roll (1956)
Billy Lee Riley: Red Hot (1957)
Roy Orbison: Ooby Dooby (1956)
Ray Harris: Come on Little Mama (1956)
Sonny Burgess: Red Headed Woman (1955)
Decca Artists: Bill Hailey & His Comets, Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio, Buddy Holly
Bill Hailey & His Coments: Rock Around the Clock (1954)
Bill Hailey & His Comets: Shake, Rattle and Roll (1954)
Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio: Rockabilly Trio (1956)
Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio: The Train Kept a Rollin' (1956)
Buddy Holly: Not Fade Away (1957)
Buddy Holly: That'll be the Day (1957)
Buddy Holly: Peggy Sue (1957)
Miscellaneous: Gene Vincent, The Everly Brothers, Ricky Nelson, Eddie Cochran
Gene Vincent: Be-Bop-A-Lula (1956)
The Everly Brothers: Bye Bye Love (1957)
Everly Brothers: Wake up Little Susie (1957)
Ricky Nelson: Believe What You Say (1958)
Eddie Cochran: Summertime Blues (1958)
September 19: Dick Clark, Don Kirshner, and the Teen Market
Dick Clark's Creations
Bobbie Rydell: Wild One (1960)
Chubby Checker: The Twist (1960)
Sam Cooke: Twistin the Night Away
Joey Dee and the Starlighters: Peppermint Twist (1961)
Joint Statement on Current Issues in Radio
Don Kirshner's Creations
Connie Francis: Stupid Cupid (1958)
Neil Sedaka: Breaking up is hard to do (1962)
Doo Wop Groups
The Ravens: Count Every Star (1950)
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers: Why do fools fall in love? (1956)
The Coasters: Young Blood (1957)
Dion and the Belmonts: A teenager in love (1959)
The Girl Groups
The Ronettes: Be My Baby (1963)
The Shirelles: Will you love me tomorrow? (1960)
The Crystals: He's a rebel (1962)
The Crystals: Then he kissed me (1963)
The Shangri-Las: The leader of the pack (1964)
The Dixie Cups: Chapel of love (1964)
Influences:
Gene Krupa and the Benny Goodman Orchestra: Sing! Sing! Sing!
Duane Eddy: Rebel Rouser (1958)
Duane Eddy: The King of the Twangy Guitar
Link Wray: Rumble (1958)
Dick Dale: The King of Surf Guitar
Dick Dale and the Del Tones: Let's Go Trippin' (1961)
Dick Dale and the Del Tones: Miserlou (1962)
The Beach Boys
Surfin' (1962)
In My Room (1963)
Good Vibrations (1966)
Pet Sounds (1966)
Jan and Dean
Surf City (1963)
Drag City (1965)
Miscellaneous Surf
The Pyramids: Penetration (1963)
The Surfaris: Wipe Out (1963)
UW Oshkosh Connected Car Song
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen: Hot Rod Lincoln (1971)
September 23: Doug Henkle Presentation
http://www.folklib.net/ou/palmeri_20050923.shtml
September 26: Bob Dylan and the New Frontier
The Folk Revival
The Kingston Trio: Tom Dooley (1958)
Hootenannny (1963)
New Christy Minstrels: Green Green (1963)
I always thought one man, the lone balladeer with the guitar,
could blow an entire army off the stage if he knew what he was doing...
To the aspiring songwriter and singer I say, Disregard all the current stuff,
forget it, you're better off if you read John Keats, Melville, and listen to
Robert Johnson and Woody Guthrie.
BOB DYLAN
booklet for "Biograph", 1985
Dylan Influences:
Jimmie Rodgers: Blue Yodel ("T For Texas") (1927)
Robert Johnson: Love in Vain (1937)
Woody Guthrie: Do Re Mi (1937)
Woody Guthrie: This Land is Your Land (1945)
The Weavers: Good Night Irene (1955)
The Weavers: If I Had A Hammer (1956)
Pete Seeger Remembers the 1950s
Bob Dylan: The Music of Protest
Blowin in the Wind (1963)
Masters of War (1963)
The Times They Are a Changin' (1964)
With God on our Side (1964)
My Back Pages (1964)
The Singer Activists
Peter, Paul, and Mary: Where have all the flowers gone? (1962)
Buffy Saint-Marie: Universal Soldier (1964)
Phil Ochs: I Ain't Marchin' No More
Phil Ochs: Cops of the World (1966)
Dave Von Ronk: Cocaine Blues (1963)
Barry McGuire: Eve of Destruction (1965)
September 28: Joan Baez, Dylan Goes Electric, Brief Return to Protest, Christian Conversion, Unplugged, Folk Rock
Joan Baez
Dylan Goes Electric:
Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965)
Like a Rolling Stone (1965)
Brief Return to Protest:
Hurricane (1975)
Christian Convert:
Gotta Serve Somebody (1979)
"Unplugged"
John Brown (on CD)
Folk Rock:
Donovan Leitch: Catch the Wind (1965)
Donovan Leitch: Sunshine Superman (1965)
Donovan Leitch: Hurdy Gurdy Man (1966)
The Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man (1965)
The Byrds: Turn! Turn! Turn! (1965)
Simon & Garfunkel: The Sound of Silence (1966)
Simon & Garfunkel: I am a Rock (1966)
Simon & Garfunkel Wikipedia Entry
The Lovin' Spoonful: Do you Believe in Magic? (1965)
The Lovin' Spoonful: Summer in the City (1966)
John Sebastian Wikipedia Entry
September 30: The British Invasion (not including the Beatles and the Rolling Stones):
Lonnie Donegan and "skiffle" music: "Rock Island Line"(1956) (with comments by George Harrison).
Wikipedia Entry: Skiffle Music
Lonnie Donegan Wikipedia Entry
Mods and Rockers Wikipedia Entry
The Mersey Beat: Liverpool Bands
Gerry and the Pacemakers: Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying (1964)
Gerry and the Pacemakers: Ferry Cross the Mersey (1965)
Gerry and the Pacemakers: It's Gonna be Alright (1965)
Gerry and the Pacemakers Wikipedia Entry
The Searchers: Needles and Pins (1964)
Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas: Bad to Me (1963)
Cilla Black: You're My World (1964)
The Mersey Beat: Other Parts of England
Freddie and the Dreamers (Manchester): Do the Freddie (1965)
Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders (Manchester): The Game of Love (1965)
The Hollies (Manchester): Bus Stop (1966)
Herman's Hermits (Manchester): I'm Into Something Good (1964)
The Dave Clark Five (London): Glad all Over (1964)
The British Blues Invasion (Blues Inspired Bands)
The Who: I'm the Face (1964)
The Who: My Generation (1965)
The Yardbirds: Heart Full of Soul (1965)
The Yardbirds: Shapes of Things (1966)
The Kinks: You Really Got Me (1964)
The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night (1964)
The Spencer Davis Group: I'm a Man (1965)
The Spencer Davis Group: Gimme Some Lovin (1965)
Manfred Mann: Do Wah Diddy Diddy (1964)
The Animials: We Gotta Get Out of This Place (1965)
The Animals: It's My Life (1965)
Them: Gloria (1965)
Love Me Do (1962)
She Loves You (1963)
Norwegian Wood (1965)
Norwegian Wood Wikipedia Entry
Nowhere Man (1965)
Love You Too (1966)
Tomorrow Never Knows (1966)
The Beatles Revolver Album Cover
Tomorrow Never Knows Wikipedia Entry
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Wikipedia Entry
Strawberry Fields Forever (1967)
Strawberry Fields Forever Wikipedia Entry
I Am The Walrus (1967)
I Am The Walrus Wikipedia Entry
Magical Mystery Tour Album Cover
The Beatles' Helter Skelter was Paul McCartney's attempt to out do the Who's I Can See For Miles
Helter Skelter (1968)
October 5th: The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones Wikipedia Entry
Not Fade Away (1964)
Maybe the Stones should have performed in blackface?
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (1965)
Paint It Black (1966)
Paint It Black Wikipedia Entry
Street Fighting Man (1968)
Street Fighting Man was a response to the Beatles Revolution
Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
Sympathy for the Devil Wikipedia Entry
Brown Sugar (1971)
Jackie Wilson: Reet Petite (1957) (written by Berry Gordy)
Barrett Strong: Money, that's what I want (1959) (written by Berry Gordy)
Marvelettes: Please Mr. Postman (1961) (Motown's first #1 hit)
The Marvelettes Wikipedia Entry
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas: Heat Wave (1963) (HDH)
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas: Dancing in the Street (1964) (HDH)
Motown's Reeves Advances to Detroit City Council General Election
Martha Reeves and the VanDellas
Mary Wells: My Guy (1964)
The Four Tops: I Can't Help Myself (1965) (HDH)
The Four Tops: Reach Out I'll Be There (1966) (HDH)
Marvin Gaye: How Sweet It Is (1965) (HDH)
Marvin Gaye: What's Goin' On? (1971)
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: Shop Around (1961)
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles: I Second That Emotion (1967)
Smokey Robinson Wikipedia Entry
The Supremes: Where did our love go? (1964) (HDH)
The Supremes: Baby Love (1964) (HDH)
The Supremes: Come See About Me (1964) (HDH)
The Temptations: The Way You Do The Things You Do (1964)
The Temptations: My Girl (1965)
The Temptations' "Psychedelic Soul" Period
The Temptations Wikipedia Entry
Stax Artists:
Booker T. and the MGs: Green Onions (1962)
Booker T. and the MGs: Time is Tight (1969)
Booker T. and the MGs Wikipedia Entry
Otis Redding: Sittin on the Dock of the Bay (1967)
Wilson Pickett: In the Midnight Hour (1965)
Wilson Pickett Wikipedia Entry
Sam and Dave: Soul Man (1967)
Percy Sledge: When a Man Loves a Woman (1966)
The Geniuses
Solomon Burke: Got to get you off my mind (1965)
Ray Charles: Hit the Road Jack (1961)
Ray Charles: Let's got get Stoned (1966)
Aretha Franklin (on CD)
Aretha Franklin Wikipedia Entry
James Brown (on CD)
Beat Poets/Icons:
"The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked."
- Amiri Baraka
The New York Connection:
The Fugs: Saran Wrap (1965)
The Blues Magoos: We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet (1966)
The Velvet Underground: Venus in Furs (1967)
Velvet Underground: Heroin (1967)
Velvet Underground Wikipedia Entry
California Bands:
The Electric Prunes: I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night (1966)
Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow (1967) (CD)
Jefferson Airplane Wikipedia Entry
The Grateful Dead (CD)
The Doors: The End (1967)
Big Brother and the Holding Company Featuring Janis Joplin: Piece of My Heart (1968)
Blue Cheer: Summertime Blues (1968)
Iron Butterfly: In A Godda Da Vida (1968)
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Fresh Air (1970)
British Bands:
Pink Floyd: See Emily Play (1967)
Eric Burdon and the Animals: A Girl Named Sandoz (1967)
Odes To San Francisco:
Eric Burdon and the Animals: San Franciscan Nights (1967)
Scott McKenzie: San Francisco (1967)
October 14: Militant Blues on Campus
The Psychedelic Blues
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced? (1967)
Jimi Hendrix: Little Wing (1967)
Cream (CD)
Ten Years After (CD)
Jeff Beck Group (Rod Stewart on vocals): Blues Deluxe (1968)
Jeff Beck Group: Spanish Boots (1969)
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son (1969)
Creedence Clearwater Revival Wikipedia Entry
Heavy Metal Thunder
Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild (1968)
Led Zeppelin: How Many More Times (1969)
Led Zeppelin: Dazed and Confused (1969)
Black Sabbath (CD)
Deep Purple (CD)
The Rebirth of the Blues
Johnny Winter (CD)
Canned Heat: On The Road Again (1969)
The Allman Brothers Band (CD)
The Allman Brothers Wikipedia Entry
Woodstock and the End of an Era
Country Joe & The Fish: Fixin' to Die Rag (1967)
Country Joe McDonald: Cakewalk to Baghdad (2004)
Black Sabbath: Wicked World (1970)
The world today is such a wicked place
Fighting going on between the human race
People go to work just to earn their bread
While people just across the sea are counting their dead
A politician's job they say is very high
For he has to choose who's got to go and die
They can put a man on the moon quite easy
while people here on earth are dying of old diseases
A woman goes to work every day after day
She just goes to work just to earn her pay
Child sitting crying by a life that's harder
he doesn't even know who is his father
October 21st: Soft Sounds of the Seventies
"These days nobody wants to hear songs that have a message." Robert Lamm, Chicago (@1971)
Jazz-Rock Fusion
Blood, Sweat and Tears: Spinning Wheel (1969)
Blood, Sweat and Tears Wikipedia Entry
Chicago: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (1969)
Steely Dan: Reelin' in the Years (1973)
Jan Hammer/Billy Cobham: Quadrant IV from "Spectrum" (1974)
Billy Cobham on Drummerworld Site
Seventies Soul
The Chi-Lites: Have You Seen Her? (1971)
Al Green: Let's Stay Together (1974)
Stevie Wonder: Living for the City (1974)
The O'Jays: Love Train (1974)
The Spinners: The Rubberband Man (1976)
The Brothers Johnson: Strawberry Letter #23 (1976)
Classical Rock
Yes: Close to the Edge (1972)
Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973) (CD)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Album Cover
Heavy Metal Theatre
David Bowie: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
Davie Bowie: Suffragette City (1972) (CD)
Mott the Hoople: All the Young Dudes (1972) (CD)
Mott the Hoople: Marionette (1974) (CD)
Mott the Hoople Wikipedia Entry
Kiss: Rock and Roll All Night (1975)
Alice Cooper: I'm Eighteen (1971) (CD)
Iggy Pop and the Stooges: Search and Destroy (1973) (CD)
The New York Dolls: Personality Crisis (1974) (CD)
The New York Dolls Wikipedia Entry
Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
Art Pop in the Arena
Kansas: Carry on my Wayward Son (1976)
Boston: More than a Feeling (1976)
Electronic Music
Kraftwerk: Autobahn (1974)
October 31: Punk Rock and the New Generation
New York Punk
The Sex Pistols and British Punk
The Jamaican Connection: Reggae and Ska
Post Punk Depression
The New Wave
November 4: The Promise of Rock and Roll
Bruce Springsteen Wikipedia Entry
Band Aid: Do They Know it's Christmas? (1984)
USA For Africa: We are the World (1985)
Paul Simon: Graceland (1985)
Paul Simon Graceland Wikipedia Entry
Tracy Chapman: Fast Car (1988)
Suzanne Vega: Luka (1987)
U2: Gloria (1981)
U2: Sunday Bloody Sunday (1983)
November 7: The Generation X Blues
The Hardcore Generation:
Forming:
Rip them down
Hold me up
Tell them that
I'm your gun
Pull my trigger
I am bigger than-
Mr. Prez in his big White House
Listen he says we're comin' out
Infiltration-we're numbin' your minds
Concentration-we've done time
[repeat chorus]
Over there the Queen she says
Let's stamp them out and dry
those tears
Saturation-we want in taxes
Flagelation-we've got gashes
[repeat chorus]
In the cold, the czars claimin'
Just protectin', rockets aimin'
Alteration-Earth is changin'
Observation-we want action
[repeat chorus]
I the Emperor proclaim
Us the masters we rule the game
Inclination-somethin' to dream on
Deprivation-we are sons
[repeat chorus]
Black Flag Life of Pain Lyrics
Kill the Poor:
Efficiency and progress is ours once more
Now that we have the Neutron bomb
It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done
Away with excess enemy
But no less value to property
No sense in war but perfect sense at home:
The sun beams down on a brand new day
No more welfare tax to pay
Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light
Jobless millions whisked away
At last we have more room to play
All systems go to kill the poor tonight
Gonna
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight
Behold the sparkle of champagne
The crime rate's gone
Feel free again
O' life's a dream with you, Miss Lily White
Jane Fonda on the screen today
Convinced the liberals it's okay
So let's get dressed and dance away the night
While they:
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight
Thrash Metal:
The Industrial Revolution:
Testure lyrics:
in nervous convulsion crouches infant ape trembling in mothers shit
cage eyes tear less filled with contempt clinic mask experiment with
life and death smell lingering noxious mixed scent anxiety omnipotent doctor
grinds the cage door revealing loves primal instinct taken away the tiny
face terrified rant and rave smash your head against the cage vacuum
clicks on high conscious of the pain pass off as humane white coat seems
so clean most dirt bleached out of greed force the point of habit eyes burn
in a rabbit push the pain test button spines cut trip mucous inflection
more die. pills each day what goes around comes back stronger tap into
the brain break the skull again smash price research rat lab rent pain
in flesh more ill drug store sales sharpen the knife emphasis on money
new disease everyday end is seen and coming reseach turns it's back
to gain crush the spine genocide kitten drags its dead limb continuing
all suffering it will come back and win shock paralyse turn trauma
burns out the will to live the lying message 5 year genocide 1945 suicide
vivisect vi
Nine Inch Nails Wikipedia Entry
Grunge:
Soundgarden Hands All Over Lyrics
Alice in Chains Wikipedia Entry
Alice in Chains Man in the Box Lyrics
November 9: The Rave Revolution
House Music (Chicago):
Frankie Knuckles Wikipedia Entry
Techno Music (Detroit):
A Rave New World:
Darkcore:
Roni Size/DJ Die Strictly Social
"Intelligent" Techno:
November 11: The Many Faces of Hip-Hop
The Old School:
The Sugarhill Gang Wikipedia Entry
Grandmaster Flash Wikipedia Entry
Afrika Bambaataa Wikipedia Entry
The Second Wave:
The Beastie Boys Wikipedia Entry
November 14: Artist Profile -- Frank Zappa
November 18: Youth and Morality/Music and Sexuality
Nine Inch Nails: Big Man With A Gun Lyrics
Eminem: '97 Bonnie and Clyde Lyrics
