Download Music 089: History of Rock Homework #3

Music 089: History of Rock
Homework #3
1. How does the Brill Building approach to teen pop in the early 1960s differ from
that found in rock and roll of the 1955-59 period?
2. Why was folk music appealing to college-age listeners?
3. In what ways were the productions of Phil Spector and Leiber and Stoller
innovative? How did they expand on the traditional role of a producer in pop
music?
4. What does John Covach mean by “rockabilly popsters”? Name some of the
artists who fall under this category. How did their music combine a more poporiented, Brill Building approach with elements of rockabilly and the first wave of
rock and roll?
5. What were some of the significant influences on the early Beach Boys sound?
Music 089: History of Rock
Homework #4
1. What was the general state of the British popular music industry before the
Beatles arrived? How did their emergence in the early 1960s change this?
2. What were some of the major influences on the Beatles early on?
3. Describe some of the ways (musical, lyrical, technological) that the Beatles’
music developed from a craft to an art form.
4. Describe the early sound of the Rolling Stones. What were some of their
primary influences in the beginning? What other British groups shared the same
influences?
5. What were some of the musical innovations of the Yardbirds? Which musicians
in the group were responsible for these innovations?
6. What are some of the key elements in the music and career of the Who and the
Kinks? What stood out musically/sonically about the song “You Really Got Me”?