{"id":2891,"date":"2019-05-02T20:39:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T20:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=2891"},"modified":"2019-05-09T14:16:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:16:44","slug":"rock-and-roll-1950-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/rock-and-roll-1950-1970s\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock and Roll (1950-1970\u2019s)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malone, Bill C., and David Stricklin. “The 1960s and 1970s: Rock, Gospel, Soul.” In\u00a0Southern Music\/American Music<\/em>, 108-28. University Press of Kentucky, 1979.<\/h2>\n

\u201cThe 1960s and 1970s: Rock, Gospel, Soul” provides background on the themes and intersections that rock, gospel and soul music held in the 1960s and the 1970s. The article is useful in outlining the cultural and societal meanings of each genre as each rose to fame in different ways, but joined together to be create the \u201csouthern musical experience\u201d [1]. The United States saw an invasion of British rock n\u2019 rollers in the 1960\u2019s with the arrival of The Beatles, an era that brought \u201clong hair, unconventional dress, illicit drug use, sexual freedom, and hostility toward or disinterest in politics or civic and religious authority figures\u201d to American society [2]. The article cites the beginning career of Janis Joplin as tragic, as in the South \u201cher slightly plump physical appearance and awkward self-consciousness meant she would never live up to the teen starlet image young middle-class women were expected to emulate in the early 1960s\u201d [3]. The article holds significance because it mentions the careers of multiple prominent female singers in rock, gospel and soul music, like Janis Joplin, Dolly Parton, Selena Quintanella, Tish Hinojoso, Mahalia Jackson, naming their impact in the music industry and giving context to each singer.<\/p>\n

Tina Turner on stage by Dorothy Morgan, in Vogue<\/em> Magazine<\/em><\/h2>\n

\"Tina<\/p>\n

Tina Turner is one of the most influential women in the music industry throughout the 1960\u2019s and beyond, a performer who crossed racial and gender lines with her music that was spanned different genres and influences of R&B, pop and rock. Known for songs that hold narratives of independence, power, femininity, sexual prowess and womanhood, Turner, a black woman, made her mark with her songs as well as her position within the rock and roll industry, where most other singers, producers and songwriters were white British men. Turner sold millions of records and earned eleven Grammy awards over the course of her career [4]. The image of Tina Turner performing on stage published in Vogue Magazine<\/em>\u00a0encapsulates her powerful presence as a performer and within the music industry, a black woman who paved the way for many other women in music, with her fierce expressions of her blackness and womanhood in her music.<\/p>\n

The Runaways “Cherry Bomb” live in Japan, 1977<\/h1>\n