“What impact has rock and roll had on society?” Give examples from the video below (minimum 250 words). Reply to at least one of your classmate’s posts (minimum 50 words).
https://youtu.be/gGt2FKPjuKs
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Before I watch the video I didn’t realize how powerful is rock and roll music, I know music has the power to influence people, the emotion from the singer who performed the music is not going to lie to people. In the 80s the military dictator Manual Noriega fled across Panama city from one hideout to the Vatican embassy, Americans resorted to musical warfare songs, like refugee by Tom Petty, no particular place to go by Chuck Berry, and Juana dead or alive by Bon Jovi. But Noriega has preferred the delicate sounds of opera but Noriega surrender in 10 days. From that, we can saw how music changes a person or affects a person. It can change people somehow in a mental way, or Noriega is just not able to bear the rock music songs to surrender. Live Aid raising a hundred and fifty million pounds for famine relief and watched by 1.9 billion live on TV, in some way we can say music doesn’t have national boundaries even our language is different but we still can feel the emotion from the music. The race records the artists like Chuck Berry and Fats Domino find an unlikely audience in the white teenagers, their music began to break down the racial barriers by their fans as black and white. After a long time, Buddy Holly start to tach black venues and vice versa. Rock and roll music is like the mix of two cultures the black and white country. It broke the barrier between the two races.
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Rock and roll has had major impacts on society from influencing not only the sound of music, but also things like clothing, and even politics. I think one reason for this is because of how lyrics in a song can tell a story and spread a message in a short amount of time, and how it can easily stick with people. One example from the video that I think is important to look at is how concerts can have an impact on society by raising money and awareness for important causes, such as the Live Aid concert when they held concerts simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. The ability to hold to hold these concerts at the same time, in different locations, brings a unity between more than one country’s people. Also, because they held so many big artists it brings people that like different artists together to promote a message that a larger audience could listen to. I have also noticed this continue to today, where big artists will come together for a concert to promote and raise awareness for a cause, and people want to see their favorite performers and they will listen to what they have to say about an important cause. An example from the video I also think it is also important to look at is the role rock and roll, R & B, and things like “race records” played in breaking down and lowering racial barriers. This is an important impact because as black and white musicians were gaining the attention and support of both black and white audiences, they were beginning to desegregate from each other, being portrayed in a new light that had not been done before. Rock and roll overall impacted society because they were able to unify people through music and promote messages for better social change that it’s listeners resonated with and supported.
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