Rock and Roll

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This paper discusses the music conventionalizing cycle. The writer looks at how rock and roll fits into this model. The paper shows how it started out as a sub-category of blues and then became its own genre when it was first rejected and then institutionalized.

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"The nature of popular music is one of the most important questions in music studies. In "Towards an Aesthetic of Popular Music" Simon Frith states, "The sociologist of contemporary popular music is faced with a body of songs, records, stars and styles which exist because of a series of decisions, made by both producers and consumers, about what is a successful sound." (Firth 134). This may explain why the idea of conventionalizing is so contentious in the study of music. If music is one part aesthetic and one part business there is inevitably going to be a great deal of concern when this balance shifts."

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