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editorial spring 2003 |
Crazy, man, crazy |
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Editorial | ||||||
by Ger Tillekens | ||||||
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![]() April 2003 was also a special month, because exactly fifty years ago Bill Haley and his Comets had their first national top twenty hit record in the United States, "Crazy, Man, Crazy", a first for a white band playing a rhythm and blues style of song. It lauded the coming of rock and roll, the music that started a whole new style of popular music. Two of our new articles delve deeper into the roots and charactistics of rock and roll. The first one looks into the musical characteristics of early rock and roll, the second one describes its history and social backgrounds by asking the question how rock and roll came to be identified with rebellion:
We hope you enjoy reading them. |
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