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Musical Movements. 1945-1959. Jazz, Rock N Roll, and Reinvention. Domestic Postwar Era ... The USSR tests its first atom bomb. JAZZ. Bebop 'Up' tempo. Reharmonization ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Musical Movements 19451959


1
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
    nEfeaturerelated

7
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
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