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In the crossover of African American "race music" to a growing white youth audience, the popularization of rock and roll involved both black performers reaching a white audience and white performers appropriating African-American music. [1] Rock and roll appeared at a time when racial tensions in the United States were entering a new phase ...
American rock music was further influenced by the British Invasion of the American pop charts from 1964 and resulted in the development of psychedelic rock. From the late 1960s and early 1970s, American rock music was highly influential in the development of a number of fusion genres, including blending with folk music to create folk rock, with ...
The 1940s and 1950s saw the rise of music that continued to protest labor, race, and class issues. Protest songs continued to increase their profile over this period, and a rising number of artists appeared who were to have an enduring influence on the protest music genre.
The George Clinton-led Parliament-Funkadelic created a unique and influential sound by blending funk with psychedelic rock, while Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life (1976) and Marvin Gaye ...
Rock Against Racism (RAR) was a political and cultural movement which emerged in 1976 in reaction to a rise in racist attacks on the streets of the United Kingdom and increasing support for the far-right National Front at the ballot box. Between 1976 and 1982, RAR activists organised national carnivals and tours, as well as local gigs and clubs ...
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Rock Against Sexism (RAS) was a political and cultural movement dedicated to promoting women in music, [1] and challenging sexism in the rock music community, pop culture and in the world at large. It was primarily a part of the punk rock music and arts scene. [2] RAS began in the UK in 1978, and by the mid-1980s also had a presence in North ...
The 1970s was an era that produced some of the greatest live albums in history. In the previous decade, artists and producers took great pains to make studio albums sound as spotless and pristine ...