Boogie Woogie and the First Rock and Roll

What is boogie woogie?

Boogie woogie was any type of solo piano piece that had a walking, rhythmic bass line

Used swing rhythms and syncopation (off-beat rhythms)

Early Boogie Woogie

Charles Avery - Dearborn Street Breakdown (1929)

Lux Lewis - Boogie Woogie

Prayer (1938)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFcRaSuRAGghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrHrbSxUFDI

Rhythm and Blues, or Race Music

Offshoot of Jump Blues, less musiciansSame volume of sound, cheaper for club and bar ownersBass line was borrowed from Boogie Woogie albumsPrimarily Black musicians, hence Race Music

Rhythm and Blues, or Race Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9b3ZZywQvghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR6pHtiNT_k

Louis Jordan (1908- 1975)

King of the Jukebox

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1QfXQakX2whttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmEtJ1gLVTk

Post-1945 Music

Bing Crosby

Pat Boone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDeQzjKHaeEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKJwHQsOJohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z67IqrmygZYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9IHf6Xvzo0

Post-1945 MusicThe night is like a lovely tune

Beware my foolish heart

How white the ever constant moon

Take care my foolish heart

There's a line between love and fascination

That's hard to see on an evening such as this

For they both give the very same sensation

When youre lost in the magic of a kiss

Her lips are much too close to mine

Beware my foolish heart

But should our eager lips combine

Then let the fire start

For this time it isn't fascination

Or a dream that will fade and fall apart

It's love, this time it's love

My foolish heart(My Foolish Heart In 1950 spent 11 weeks as #1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_OIrjIYahQ

Similarities to Post- WWI

Debussy - Au Claire De La Lune

Arnold Schoenburg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GymJUFFwlI

Scientific study of teenagers brains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kP_VbMsW-I

Teenagers turn to Rhythm and Blues

Shake Rattle and Roll, performed by Big Joe Turner and Bill Haley and His Comets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Feq_Nt3nMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CXFXB4uknI

The James Dean Mentality

James Dean (1931- 1955) - star from East of Eden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Vy5g6weX8

The James Dean Mentality

James Dean was a legend after East of Eden-

Was the rebellious figure that teenagers of the 50s needed and wanted

In 1955, after shooting East of Eden, Dean was speeding in a Porsche 55 Spyder and died

The James Dean Mentality

Rebel Without A Cause

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eselLQax8ushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz3W87uWcx8