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To find your voice in a foreign language - Article by Gestur Gudmundsson in Journal Young (1999) featuring Icelandic rock history

2008-08-30 17:54:00 by Wim Van Hooste in I ♥ Icelandic Music
 
...rock By Gestur Guðmundsson in Journal Young Volume 7 Number 2 1999 There has been a steady growth of studies in rock and other popular music in the Nordic countries since the seventies A number of impressive studies (cf. Tagg 1979, Fornäs 1985, Fornäs et al. 1988/1995, Roe & Carlsson (eds) 1990, Berkaak 1993, Lindberg1995, Bjurström...
 
 
 
 
 
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Rock Music History

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2007-12-07 13:53:22 by HASH0x893ca7c in RockerZone - Latest Rock News and Rock CD Reviews
...Rock Essentially hybrid in origin, rock music includes elements of several black and white American music styles: black guitar-accompanied blues; black rhythm and blues, noted for saxophone solos; black and white gospel music; white country and western music; and the songs of white popular crooners and harmony groups. Emerging in 195455,...
 
 
 
 
 
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The history of Progressive Rock Music (1967 - 2004)

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2007-12-01 23:01:00 by nasti in Progressive Rock
...ROCK RESOURCE PROGRESSIVE ROCK HISTORY 1967 to the PRESENT From the precursors toward the end of the Sixties until today Sub-genres, groups of reference, essential discs for each decade What would you think of having a trustworthy companion that would guide you through a journey that discovers the discs you dream about? Thats exactly our...
 
 
 
 
 
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Rock music has many genres

2007-10-12 06:56:00 by M O'hara in Rock Me Amadeus!
 
Rock music is a popular from of music that is accompanied by instruments like drums, guitar and bass. Rock music in itself has many styles that were incorporated by musicians who loved this music. One can come across rock music where instruments like synthesizers, piano and organ is also used. Rock music began in the early fifties in United...
 
 
 
 
 
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History of Icelandic Rock Music - Article by Gestur Gudmundsson in Journal Young (1993)

2008-08-30 17:01:00 by Wim Van Hooste in I ♥ Icelandic Music
 
...rock music as a synthesis of international trends and national cultural inheritance By Gestur Gudmundsson in Young Volume 1 Number 2 1993 The more experimental part of Icelandic rock music has over the last 4-5 years been enjoying a considerable international success. The biggest name has been the Sugarcubes but several other groups have...
 
 
 
 
 
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Rock music

2007-11-24 23:40:00 by nazar in World Music Info
 
Rock music is a form of popular music with a prominent vocal melody accompanied by guitar , drums , and bass . Many styles of rock music also use keyboard instruments such as organ , piano , or synthesizers . Other instruments sometimes utilized in rock include harmonica , violin , flute , banjo and less common stringed instruments such as...
 
 
 
 
 
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Experimental/Post Rock

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2007-12-01 22:10:00 by nasti in Progressive Rock
...ROCK The term post-rock was coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994) to describe a sort of music "using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and powerchords Originally used to describe the music of such bands as Stereolab, Disco Inferno,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Folk Rock, Mandry Style

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2008-01-02 13:38:01 by Orest in Ukrainian Music Matters
...rock band Mandry performs music which can be described as fusion of Ukrainian folk music, reggae, the blues and rock, with an admixture of city romance songs and French chanson. The Mandrivnyks (mandry in Ukrainian means both wanderings and travels, and consequently mandrivnyk is the one who wanders or travels; in this context, mandrivnyks...
 
 
 
 
 
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Jailhouse Rock: Rock (Heltah Skeltah)

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2008-02-04 05:50:56 by bigced in The Hip Hop Cosign
...Rock of the rap superduo Heltah Skeltah was released Thursday, January 24th on $125,000 bail from Rikers Island after being charged with attempted murder and assault against another Brooklyn man. It has been alleged that Rock and the victim were known pimps and the dispute that escalated into a shooting began over a prostitute Only days after...
 
 
 
 
 
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School Of Rock