The Art of Rock and Roll by Charles Brown
The book "The Art of Rock and Roll" by Charles T. Brown basically
proposes methods for analyzing music and anyone who reads the books should be
able to develop techniques for listening to music and making legitimate
statements about it. It treats rock and roll as a serious art form and traces
it cultural roots throughout the book.
Chapter one discusses the elements of rock and makes four assumptions.
Assumption one states that rock is a legitimate art form. An art form is
defined as a creative act that springs from the artist's experience as it
reflects or reacts against society. It then states that acculturation, a process
by which a certain people are influenced by a foreign culture, changed the Afro-
Americans from their original culture to one that was a mixture of U.S.
influences and African roots which played a large part in the way rock and roll
sounds today. Brown proves rock is a legitimate art form by talking about its......
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