Rock N' Roll Should Be Named The Offical Music Of The United States
Rock n' Roll was invented in America and has influenced and inspired generations of Americans. Most people who grew up listening to rock stars such as Elvis Presly, The Beatles,Jimi Hendrix,Chuck Berry, Bill Halle & The Comets, Tom Petty & the Heartbrakers remeber there songs that they listened to. Despite other genres getting in the way of it's popularity it's still popular and is the American Music that will never die.
With the name Rock ‘n’ Roll there are a few names that automatically come to our mind. Names
like Elvis Presley, who has achieved a considerable fame of being the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll of
America. Bands have also been very famous like The Beatles, with this name we remember songs like
“Come together”, “Hard day’s night” and a many more. Most of these bands and solo singers
brought in a revolution in the history of music in the United States. Basically Rock ‘n’ Roll
was discovered in the United States and this music came into the fore front with the help of these
revolutionary movements. So the United States also underwent through a very different kind of
musical scenario where Rock ‘n’ Roll came into the spotlight. Thus it can be said that Rock
‘n’ Roll can be the official music of the United States.
Attempts to make something "official" suggests that it is permanent and will never change. It is a
position of fearful ignorance, not of moral or factual rightness. The question is as juvenile and
intellectually weak as asking for English to be the US's "official language".
And by the way, gospel, jazz and country music have been the "official music" of the US for longer
than rock music. How ignorant of music history must someone be to even ask the "question"?
Then again...rock and roll is as dead stylistically as the US is morally, so maybe you're right. It
would be appropriate.
Many of you people might be forgetting that the British have greatly influenced rock music as we
know it today... I bring to point such influential bands such as The Beatles, Yes, Supertramp, The
Moody Blues... The list goes on. No country should have an official national genre of music, because
music belongs to the world, and everyone perceives it differently.
I can't see the point in naming an "official music" in the United States or anywhere else. Rock n'
roll was born in a spirit of rebellion so to make it official would almost be an insult to those who
pioneered it.
Besides, although it has undoubtedly been greatly influential, rock n' roll has almost died out now.
Jazz deserves more respect as a uniquely American musical style which has endured the test of time.
22 Feb 2008 18:15
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