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Rock - Social Change, Cultural Evolution, Music Revolution | Britannica Rock - Social Change, Cultural Evolution, Music Revolution: How, then, should rock’s contribution to music history be judged? One way to answer this is to trace rock’s influences on other musics Another is to attempt a kind of cultural audit (What is the ratio of rock masterworks to rock dross?) But such approaches come up against the problem of definition
Standing Rock protests | Summary, Violence, Outcome | Britannica The Standing Rock protests were a campaign undertaken in North Dakota in 2016 and 2017 to halt the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline Early resistance to the pipeline was launched by members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, but over time the demonstrations drew thousands of supporters from all across the United States
List of U. S. Cities | Britannica The United States contains a highly diverse population Unlike a country such as China that largely incorporated Indigenous peoples, the United States has a diversity that to a great degree has come from immense and sustained global immigration Probably no other country has a wider range of racial, ethnic, and cultural types than does the United States
Lake - Glacial Basins, Formation, Ecosystems | Britannica Lake - Glacial Basins, Formation, Ecosystems: The basin-forming mechanism responsible for the most abundant production of lakes, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, is glaciation The Pleistocene glaciers, which seem to have affected every continent, were especially effective in North America, Europe, and Asia The retreat of ice sheets produced basins through mechanical action and
Plymouth Rock | Geology, Legend, History, Facts | Britannica Plymouth Rock, granite slab upon which, according to tradition, the Pilgrim Fathers stepped first after disembarking from the Mayflower on December 26, 1620, at what became the colony of New Plymouth, the first permanent European settlement in New England The rock, now much reduced from its original size thanks to damage from being moved and to the depredations of souvenir seekers, rests on
Rock | Definition, Characteristics, Formation, Cycle, Classification . . . rock, in geology, naturally occurring and coherent aggregate of one or more minerals Such aggregates constitute the basic unit of which the solid Earth is composed and typically form recognizable and mappable volumes Rocks are commonly divided into three major classes according to the processes that resulted in their formation These classes are (1) igneous rocks, which have solidified from
Rock | Definition, History, Artists, Songs, Facts | Britannica rock, form of popular music that emerged in the 1950s It is certainly arguable that by the end of the 20th century rock was the world’s dominant form of popular music Originating in the United States in the 1950s, it spread to other English-speaking countries and across Europe in the ’60s, and by the ’90s its impact was obvious globally (if in many different local guises)
27 Club | List, Members, Deaths, Curse, History, Famous People . . . One of the defining musicians of the 1960s, guitar god Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle in 1942 He briefly served as a paratrooper in the U S Army, followed by several years working as a sideman for such musicians as Little Richard and the Isley Brothers After being discovered in 1966 while playing in a club in New York City, Hendrix headed to England and blew the audiences there away with
Rock - 80s, 90s, Pop | Britannica Rock - 80s, 90s, Pop: The music industry was rescued from its economic crisis by the development in the 1980s of a new technology, digital recording Vinyl records were replaced by the compact disc (CD), a technological revolution that immediately had a conservative effect By this point the most affluent record buyers had grown up on rock; they were encouraged to replace their records, to
rock - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help Courtesy of Ernst ten Haaf Sedimentary rock forms from rock fragments, sand, mud, and other materials that are compacted and cemented together at Earth’s surface The materials that form sedimentary rock generally are carried by water, wind, ice, or other means and are then deposited on land or on the bottoms of oceans, lakes, or rivers, forming layers