The Arsenal Island has always been a center point for trade or military. Rock Island was the Native American’s natural fortress in time of war. This is where all of the children and women went if there was a battle nearby. Around 10,000 Native Americans lived off the coast of the Rock River and used Rock Island as a place of recreation and where the Good Spirit lived. At this time the British had trade shops set up.
After the end of the WWII, the Australians struggled to rebuild their lives. The veterans came home, and the radio captivated the attention of people at home when parents and children sat together in front of the radio to hear the latest news and listen to successful radio novels as Big Sister (1942) When a Girl Marries (produced after Big Sister). By the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s, the radio producers captivated the attention of young people with programs like Tarzan, Superman and others. The film industry in Australia during the 1940s struggled, so the actors had to go to Hollywood in order to have a career.
Shaking the Foundations Since the founding of the United States of America, culture, religion, and race have always been interlaced. If one of these changed, the others struggled to adapt. There was never a time in America’s short history that these three matters collided more brutally or ferociously than during the emergence of rock ‘n’ roll. It is quite obvious that not one single event, action, or phenomenon caused the turmoil during this era, but rather a perfect storm of cultural and racial revolutions that collided head on with tremendous religious backlash. All Shook Up: How Rock ‘N’ Roll Changed America showcased how one aspect of the Cultural Revolution during the 1950s and 1960s supplemented the perfect storm of social reforms.
Jazz is most often thought to have been started in the 1920s as this explosive movement, but that is in fact not the case. Starting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century many African American musicians have started to explore their taste in improvising, and where better to do that than New Orleans (Anderson). Before the 1920s these jazz musicians have already been going around sharing the unique sound, but up until then, jazz had remained majorly in New Orleans. Interestingly during this period, a common jazz band would consist of a cornet, a clarinet, a trombone, and a rhythm section when at this period of time the clarinet is not commonly associated with being a jazz instrument, it moved into being the saxophone rather. A big
The Monkees Pretend for a moment that it is 1966, and you are driving to work, tuning the radio in your car. You stop on a station playing “Last Train to Clarksville” by The Monkees, a song you recognize from their popular TV show. The Monkees was a band of four boys that starred as themselves in a TV show as themselves and produced music. Though the band had a relatively short lifespan, the members produced plenty of episodes of their show and songs during it, and later wrote more songs after the breakup of the band via reunion tours. The members of the Monkees were very influential in the development of television and music during the 1960’s.
THE GRATEFUL DEAD During the british invasion of the Beatles, another group was just starting out in Palo Alto, California. The Grateful Dead THE ORIGIN STORY. A young Jerry Garcia picked up his first guitar when he was only 15 years old, and didn’t put it down since.
Woodstock 1969 was one of the largest concerts of all time and a cultural benchmark for the late 1960s, while Woodstock 1999 was a disaster and marked the cultural end of the 1990s. They are both very well known concerts, but the memories of each are very different. Even though Woodstock 1969 positively affected the music world, Woodstock 1999 was a huge failure and greatly affected Woodstock’s reputation. Woodstock began on August 15,1969, and it lasted until August 18, 1969 (History).
Over the two years of music revolution that the band Nirvana's breakthrough album Nevermind ignited, its singer-songwriter-guitarist Kurt Cobain festered. Launched by Nevermind from the underground scene to the mainstream center stage he had opposed for a lifetime, Cobain could not reconcile himself with his new celebrity. A nonconformist and discontented poet at heart, Cobain could only watch in impotence as Nevermind was warped and clichéd in the mainstream microwave. The wearied voice of “the slacker generation” resented, on top of his doting masses, the intense searchlight on his skeletons-- his parents' divorce, his chronic drug abuse, and his controversial wife. To add insult to injury, the underground from which he sprung accused him of selling out his values to become a marketable product.
The American counterculture is not just a movement, it is an entire generation’s attempt to rebel against the cultural ideas that had previously taken root in America. Many members of the counterculture were raised in just after World War II, which also means that they grew up at a time when the economy was booming. This affluence led to many counterculture supports losing interest in the material necessities of life, unlike their parents who would have grown up in or around the time of the Great Depression. Members of the counterculture preferred to live a life that was not chained down by responsibilities. They abandoned the idea of settling down with a home and a nine to five job; instead, members drifted from place to place, experimented
In 1968, both Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, leaving the United State in a state of uncertainty. With a nation in need, the Woodstock Music and Art fair arose in 1969, standing against the background of the past year (Evans and Kingbur 20). Max Yasgur, a dairy farmer who leased his farm to the Woodstock promoters, once said to the millions of fans at the festival, “The important thing that you've proven to the world is that... a half a million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music and have nothing but fun and music, and I God Bless You for it!” (Gerdes 4), and that is exactly what the crowd of more than 400,000 fans did.
John Lennon was a famous musician in a period for Americans where war and violence stained the streets, wallets, and mindsets of all in the country. In the 1960s, “war” had become a household word, and “peace” had become a fantasy. People were scared, mad, and hopeless. Then, like a super hero, The Beatles gave hope. They took people to an unknown land; one filled with greener grass, big smiles, and happier people.
The Beatles influenced everyday life as well as music, allowing them to be one of the most influential music groups on record. Through music the Fab Four were political activists who lead young people to be involved, became the faces of what fashion was supposed to be, and inspired musicians worldwide. The night The Beatles stepped onto “The Ed Sullivan Show” is the night music changed
Janis Joplin was one of the first woman rock singer who used blues to inspire her music and put her on the same playing field as men in the 60s. The Beatles had many influences of music, including Bob Dylan's music, but they also created their own unique music that was different from song to song. In "A Day in the Life", The Beatles created a crazy dissonant sound that really hasn't been heard up until the 60s, that's actually quite creepy. Then they bring back calm in the song by playing the consonant chord to make you feel like you didn't jump off the cliff, so to speak. These were new innovations in rock that made a difference in American rock in the
The Beatles were a powerful influence on music history and culture. The Beatles were still popular 20 years after their breakup because their record labels released never before heard material ("The Beatles Biography" para. 24). The Beatles also influenced popular groups like Nirvana, Billy Joel, The Beach Boys, and many others (Polson para. 5). According to Joe McGasko, “like their predecessors, progressed beyond this stage and became a cultural force, their compositions and attitudes transforming the way pop music was experienced by large numbers of people. Coinciding with one of the most socially tumultuous periods in the history of America, the Beatles’ music reflected its era but also transcended it, so that even now their music remains fresh to each successive generation that discovers it.”
Moreover, “ The Beatles” made a breakthrough in deferent regions such as music, film, literature, art, and fashion. Even after their career ended The Beatles made a big influence on the lifestyle and culture of several generations. The words of their songs and images passed on influential ideas of love, peace, and imagination and helped in breaking walls in the thoughts of the people, therefore making a big impact on music and human history . (internal preview) Now that we have a brief intro about who "The Beatles" are lets move on to more details.
