Rock & roll timeline

  • post civil war reconstruction (1865-1877)

    post civil war reconstruction  (1865-1877)
    new southern state legislatures passed restrictive “black codes” to control the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans.
    Without music there would have been no army.
    Carry Me Back to Old Virginia https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdg1NcV4HXo
  • The great Migration 1916 to 1970

    The great Migration 1916 to 1970
    relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West.
    more people were able to buy records and listen to music in their homes. This greatly intensified the spread jazz music.
    Lucious Curtis and Willie Ford - Times is Getting Hard
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NFa6ZOT6RSw
  • prohibition (1920 to 1933)

    prohibition (1920 to 1933)
    Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages.
    Prohibition jump-started the Jazz Age. "The parties were bigger…the pace was faster…and the morals were looser."
    Harry Richman - Puttin on the Ritz
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL68E1A3866AE9454C&params=OAFIAVgO&v=pQxLMWhb_Ww&mode=NORMAL
  • The Great Depression (1929-1939)

    The Great Depression  (1929-1939)
    deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash
    Music changed from the upbeat to much more mellow songs
    Gene Krupa (Lawarence) “Brother, Can You Spare Me a Dime?
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eih67rlGNhU
  • WW2 (1939–1945)

    WW2 (1939–1945)
    including Germany, Italy and Japan. Britain, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, the Soviet Union, China and the United States of America.
    American music served as a defiant hope for liberation and freedom, and in many ways served as the soundtrack for the war
    Remember Pearl Harbor-Sammy Kay
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F9y3_cl5_SQ
  • civil rights movement (1954 – 1968)

    civil rights movement (1954 – 1968)
    African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship.
    Music gave people a voice during this time.
    Harry Belafonte - Oh Freedom
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JR08QzzD-VI
  • vietnam war (1955 –1975)

    vietnam war (1955 –1975)
    conflict with the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies.
    Peopel did not like the war becuse 18 year olds were being drafted and could not vote. People thought we should not be in this war so people made protest songs to show what was wrong.
    CCR "Fortunate Son"
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LyzUIEW-Q5E
  • Internet widely used by 1990

    Internet widely used by 1990
    The Internet is the global system of connected computer networks.
    It affect music because before people had CD's and now they can listen to music online whenever they want.
    Britney Spears "Email my heart"
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x40Ox0KqHkE
  • Social Media most widely used in the 1970s

    Social Media most widely used in the 1970s
    tools that allow people, companies, and other organizations to create, share, or exchange information.
    People can see new music and hear about new singers and there music.
    Friday - Rebecca Black
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0
  • Invention of the IPod 2001

    Invention of the IPod 2001
    which packed 5GB of music storage into a sleek white box no bigger than a deck of cards.
    It aloud people to ad there favoirte music and listen to it on the go, without using CD's.
    U2 - Vertigo
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bVfhq1pe7nA
  • 9/11 2001

    9/11 2001
    attacks was a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States.
    People were sad and mad and made songs about what happened and how they felt.
    Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hr8VwYLcxGo