EVERY GENRE PACKAGES: Rocking the Globe on its Axis (16 January 2025)

Jan 17, 2025

Continuing from yesterday’s article on how jazz’s spread acted as musical connective tissue in an unprecedented, globalized manner in the first half to the 20th century, today’s recap focuses on how that same process manifested via rock’n’roll. As an amalgamation of American blues and country styles with early Black pioneers, rock’s subversive, hard-edged, individualistic yet uniting nature met the postwar era right as new generations’ attitudes turned hard left amidst tectonic economic and social changes.

As for the clipped article, I cede your reading time to these articles, if you’re interested—I am up far too late, as I have to get up in just a few hours and catch a flight to Italy where I will be studying for the next few months. Check in soon, and thank you for reading, as always, keep discovering musical gems <3 (today I finally, overdue-ly, tuned into Pet Sounds, and what a record.)