Musical Movements 19451959

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Musical Movements1945-1959

• Jazz, Rock N Roll, and Reinvention

2
Domestic Postwar Era

• Men returning home
• Economical Boom
• Baby Boom
• Restoration of American Values and Norms
• African American Response

3
World Events Post War

• Reconstruction of Europe and Asia
• Marshall Plan
• Blockade of Berlin
• Formation of NATO
• Mao in China
• The USSR tests its first atom bomb

4
JAZZ

• Bebop
• Up tempo
• Reharmonization
• Rhythmic rephrasing of Melody
• Postbop
• A reaction of modifying Bop to fit particular
  styles
  
• Balladry
• Blues

5
Pillars of Modern Jazz

• Dizzy Gillespie
• Charlie Bird Parker
• Miles Davis
• John Coltrane

6
Rock and Roll and the Counter Culture of American
Teenagers

• Chuck Berry
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vPXvg8uCy0KE
• Popularity among white and black teens
• Elvis Presley
• Censored for sexuality
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v_1Qo1eaWF8c
• Later on http//www.youtube.com/watch?vmc5sDt4pp
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Korean War

• American Music
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vA-hOM38tslI
• Korean Music
• http//www.sowega.com/arirang.mp3
• North Korea invades South Korea
• UN Sends Force to Halt the Aggression
• China Enters on North Koreas Side
• Border Set Along the 38th Parallel

8
Red Scare in US

• Censoring liberal and socialist music
• McCarthy's Witch Hunt
• Reds in the bed!

9
Cold War

• Map of Asia in the 50s
• Expansion of Communism
• USA and then USSR creates hydrogen bomb
• French Battle Communists in Southeast Asia
• SEATO
• Containment
• Warsaw Pact
• UK and US Alienate Soviet Union
• Space Race