Paula David - Fourth Estate Cooperative ReporterIndio, Calif., United States (4E) - The recently concluded Coachella Music and Awards Festival has revealed next year's dates and a one-week-only advance ticket sales schedule on their official website. The Coachella Festival 2013 will be held April 12-14 and April 19-21, and the advance sale of festival passes will go on for a week, starting from Thursday, May 17, at 10:00 p.m. PT until next Thursday, May 24, at 10:00 p.m. PT. The week-long advance sale will be the only opportunity to take advantage of the Coachella Purchase Plan. According to the website,…
Paula David - Fourth Estate Cooperative ReporterJakarta, Indonesia (4E) - Following protests from religious and political leaders, Lady Gaga's concert in Jakarta, Indonesia scheduled on June 3 will be cancelled. "Yes, it is for sure, the promoter will not get a permit to hold the concert," National Police spokesman Saud Usman Nasution told CNN Tuesday. Jakarta police said the non-issuance is due to security concerns. The Islamic Defenders front protested over the award-winning singer's style, which they considered to be vulgar, erotic and dangerous. They also expressed their concern over the nation's security, should the concert push through. Indonesia's top…
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Rock Music Transformed Our World
by Linn Kier
Once upon a time, before Rock arrived on the scene, music was classified by the culture or location that inspired. There were Polish Polkas, Spanish Sambas, Argentine Tangos, Irish Jiggs, and in the US, because of our ethnic diversity, there was music taking on the Rock sound within all the various ethnicities. Louis Prima is an example. He started out as a Jazz trumpet player, in the 30s, along with the New Orleans trumpet player Louis Armstrong, who is, by the way, in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. By the 50s, having moved through R&B, Prima arrived with an Italian-Rock song, Come On-A My House, with the now familiar backbeat that is decidedly Rock, though the lyric style is not common in Rock. An ethnic classification for this song might have been Italian-Rock. Louis Armstrong, originally a Jazz and Blues musician, was classified with the new Rock musicians coming out of the South, a location classification. Memphis is Rock's hometown. During these early years before Rock had a name, it was simply an outgrowth of Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Country, and probably some influences no one even remembers.
In the early 50s all the separate genres, were playing their music using Rock sounds, Country singers added Rock beats to their broken hearts, calling it Rockabilly, Cajun music became Zydeco, British music became Skiffle, classed as Roots-Rock. These innovations eventually developed into the many variations of Rock we have today. Rock is really beyond the concept of genre. There are Soft Rock ballads, love songs, intense progressive sound experiences like Stan Kenton's contributions, songs with thoughtful lyrics, some with political messages and all are considered Rock.
