Compare And Contrast Western Music After Rock And Roll

Life after World War II changed and with it, and so did the music. That is, music before rock and roll was split up into three major genres: country and western, rhythm and blues, and mainstream pop. Essentially, music took on many styles which helped form rock and roll but there are many similarities and differences amongst them.
Country and western music was very popular since it appealed to people who were living in communities and were going through the same ordeals. Country music was based in the South-East region of the United States and Western originated from the South-Western U.S.. First it started out as regional music and then it spread across the continent. It became so popular that the soldiers of WWII began fans of it. Later people juts called it “country music” or “country” and for the most part, it consists of a guitar, some sort of precaution and then loud and cheerful vocals. It is usually simple and not that complicated to play and very easy to follow. It is the sort of music that makes you want to get up and dance to its encouraging rhythms which lead to the fact that it is still alive in our culture.

It also has more instruments involved such as the piano keys and drums. It became popular by black musicians and was intended for black audiences. It was music that meant something to these segregated people and lifted them up when they were down. Some would claim that the Blues not only influenced the colored, but also corrupted the white youth making them segregate against them in the early to late 1950s. That is when jazz and started out with some great Blues singers who did not partake in racial issues and just wanted to create music. It was a great collection of popular music styles combined together that later made the pop music also known as rock and