Reading Rocks Log #5: Rock Music Rock on! Color in the picture for each book or 15 minutes of reading you read. Return your finished log to your teacher for your next music reading log. Reading Rocks! Rock Music Log #5
Student Name:___________________ ! Teacher:________________________
Capitol Hill Cluster School Winter Reading Incentive Program Dec 2014-March 2015
Read to the BEAT of a great book and read your way from one music genre to the next.
Reading logs in order: #1 Pop Radio #2 Classical #3 World Music #4 Blues #5 Rock and Roll
#6 Motown #7Country & Folk #8 Jazz #9 Hip Hop
Rock Music Vocabulary
Country Music Gospel Music Blues Rock and Roll Progressive Rock
Rap
MTV
Teen Pop
Disc Jockey
Punk Rock
New Wave
Fun Facts about Rock Music
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Rock music, one of the world’s most popular kinds of music, began in the United States in the early 1950s.
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Rock music developed primarily as a blend of two musical styles---country and western and blues. Gospel music
played a part, as well, in rock music’s formation.
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Early rock music was called rock and roll, a term coined by Alan Freed, a disc jockey who used it to describe the
high energy rhythm and blues he played on his program.
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Major record companies ignored rock and roll, but radio announcer Sam Phillips opened his own recording studio
in Memphis. In 1951, his studio, Sun Records, recorded the first rock and roll song, “Rocket 88.”
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Elvis Pressley’s first recordings were made with Sun Records in 1954. Later, Pressley recorded with RCA and, by
1956, had become rock music’s greatest star. Other famous early rock stars included Chuck Berry, Little Richard,
Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
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In 1964, the Beatles, along with other British groups, brought new energy to rock and roll---now known simply as
rock. In fact, John Lennon and Paul McCarthy, the two Beatles became one of the most successful songwriting
teams in music history.
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During the 1960s, rock music became the dominant form of popular music as various types of rock developed.
Some of the emerging artists included the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Led Zeppelin, along
with soul music greats like Sam Cooke and James Brown.
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During the 1970s, various strands of rock music such as progressive rock, punk rock, and new wave emerged.
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With the establishment of MTV (Music Television) in 1981, video became an important element of rock music.
Rock stars like Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, and Michael Jackson owed much of their success to these music
videos.
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Rap is an African American form of rock that is spoken or chanted, rather than sung. Early stand-out rap groups
include the Sugar Hill Gang, Public Enemy, and Run D.M.C., which, in 1984, became the first rap super group.
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Teen pop, rock music aimed primarily at young teenagers, emerged in the 1990s and early 2000s through groups
like Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync. At the same time, grunge rock, music that expressed an angry, rebellious
message, was developed by such groups as Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails.
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Today, rock takes so many forms that it can be defined as whatever music is played on popular radio stations.