Rock Around the World
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Rock Around the World
How was the film Blackboard Jungle, which made Rock Around the Clock famous, received in the UK in the summer of 1956? What was the skiffle movement all about? Drawing as it did on the musical traditions of New Orleans and Chicago. What was Bill Haley's 1957 arrival in Southampton like? What characterised Elvis Presley's European followers, the German Peter Kraus, the Italian Adriano Celentano and the French Johnny Hallyday? These topics and others besides will feature in the Rock and Roll Free University lecture.
Rock and roll is, somewhat simplistically, the result of a particular cultural-historical fusion: that of when the musical traditions of Black slaves brought over from Africa met those of white settlers who had emigrated from Europe to the new world, the Americas. Moreover, all this took place in a radically transforming society, following technological progress and its associated industrialisation and urbanisation. In the second season of this series, we look at the social, cultural and musical events of the period from Elvis to the twilight of the rock and roll era in the Fifties.
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