大學英語綜合教程學生用書 Rock and Roll

[00:00.00] Rock and Roll [00:03.58]It is difficult to say exactly [00:08.33]how the music we call'rock"or"rockand roll"and began. [00:14.39]Its roots go back to many different countries [00:19.96]and many different kinds of music and musicians. [00:25.10]Rock music developed mainly from the interaction [00:31.56]of black African and while European music. [00:37.02]The Europeans and the African slaves who came to Americal [00:43.86]during the seventeenth centry each had their own different kinds of music. [00:51.62]Black Africans used heavy drumbeats,a rough singing voice, [00:58.46]and the calling of a melody and answer of a chorus. [01:04.03]The white Europeans,mostly English and Scots, [01:09.88]used a stronger melody,a less heavy beat, [01:15.52]and instruments such as guitars,horns,and fiddles. [01:21.97]The history of rock and roll [01:26.23]is the history of how rock evolved from these two traditions. [01:32.79]From the seventeenth to the twentieth century, [01:38.22]musicians in the southern United States [01:43.16]developed two new froms of music: [01:48.02]the blues,usually played by blacks, [01:53.48]and country music,played by whites. [01:58.31]Black musicians sang the blues accompanied by a guitar. [02:05.18]This music was similar to work songs: [02:09.93]stories of troubles and pain,with lines that were repeated several times. [02:17.27]The words"rock and roll"probably came from the black churches in the South, [02:24.72]where people sang spiritual music and danced to the strong rhythms, [02:31.35]which they called"rocking and reeling". [02:35.40]At the same time,whites were playing country music, [02:40.97]which was mostly traditional dancing music [02:45.90]and slow songs that told and stories. [02:50.66]The singers were accompanied [02:54.42]by string instruments such as fiddles and guitars. [03:00.27]During this time blues and country musicians [03:05.84]had some influence on each other, [03:10.28]but the influence grew stronger after phonograph records [03:16.34]became popular in the late nineteenth century. [03:21.48]The birth of the electric guitar [03:25.84]changed country and blues music in the 1940's. [03:31.59]The sound of the electric guittar [03:36.45]would become the sound of rock and roll. [03:40.89]No one thinks fo early rock and roll without thinking of Elvis Presley, [03:47.84]the"King of Rock and Roll". [03:51.71]Elvis was an ordinary boy. [03:55.86]He grew up poor,learned to sing in church, [04:01.21]and became a truck driver when he graduated from high school. [04:06.54]No one thought that this young man [04:10.88]with the guitar would change popular culture. [04:16.24]But after he recorded two blues songs in Memphis, [04:22.40]everything changed.He sang throughout the South, [04:28.33]and teenagers went crazy over his amazing voice [04:34.16]and his attractive performances. [04:38.20]His music was an exciting mixture of white country and black blues. [04:44.84]With his long hair and tight pants,he became a teengage idol. [04:51.19]In two years,he was a national phenomenon. [04:56.62]Elvis's career then went downhill. [05:01.58]He went into the army, [05:05.53]then stopped performing and made a series of bad movies. [05:11.38]He continued to record, [05:15.14]but his music rarely had the life of on his early songs. [05:20.68]He remained the symbol of rock and roll, [05:24.91]however,not only in the United States but also around the world. [05:31.76]He died in 1977,at the age of 42,but his music did not be with him. [05:39.98]Rock music continues to develop and change, [05:45.13]but the heart and soul of rock [05:49.18]is the same heart and soul that Elvis expressed.

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