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The term "rock and roll" now has at
least two different meanings, both in common usage. The
American Heritage Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster
Dictionary both define rock and roll as synonymous with
rock music. Encyclopaedia Britannica, on the other hand,
regards it as the music that originated in the mid-1950s
and later evolved "into the more encompassing
international style known as rock music.For the purpose
of differentiation, this article uses the latter
definition, while the broader musical genre is discussed
in the rock music article.games team building
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In the earliest rock and roll styles of
the late 1940s and early 1950s, either the piano or
saxophone was often the lead instrument, but these were
generally replaced or supplemented by guitar in the
middle to late 1950s.[13] The beat is essentially a
blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat, the latter
almost always provided by a snare drum.
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 SFX
Entertainment in turn was founded by Silverman in order
to "roll up" businesses associated with live
entertainment, principally rock 'n roll music. He began
by acquiring Delsner/Slater Concerts in 1996 and a
number of acquisitions followed rapidly thereafter.
Sillerman's entry into theater began with the
acquisition of PACE Theatrical Group in October 1997.In
September 1998 SFX acquired Magicworks Entertainment,
Inc.This Miami-based company promoted concerts and
managed touring events such as magician David
Copperfield and musicals Jekyll & Hyde and Evita. It had
been a partner of PACE unit PACE Theatricals for some
time.Also acquired was production company American
Artists, which controlled several theaters in the Boston
area including the historic Colonial Theater. Magicworks
had been controlled by Lee D. Marshall and Joe Marsh
(Lee and Marsh later reunited in the company Magic Arts
& Entertainment). The summer of 1999 saw court approval
granted for a purchase of the bankrupt Livent , a deal
that had been initiated a year earlier. Livent, once one
of the premier theatrical production companies, owned
such touring shows as Ragtime and Fosse, as well as a
number of venues in Canada and the United States. Its
bankruptcy had been attributed to widespread accounting
fraud.In early 2000 SFX acquired Jujamcyn Productions of
Minneapolis, a touring theatrical production company.
SFX already owned half of Jujamcyn, acquired through
PACE Entertainment.
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design is applied in the entertainment industry in
decoration, scenery, and visual story telling. Other
examples of design for entertainment purposes include
novels, comic books, DVD covers, opening credits and
closing credits in filmmaking, and programs and props on
stage. This could also include artwork used for t-shirts
and other items screenprinted for sale.From scientific
journals to news reporting, the presentation of opinion
and facts is often improved with graphics and thoughtful
compositions of visual information - known as
information design. Newspapers, magazines, blogs,
television and film documentaries may use graphic design
to inform and entertain. With the advent of the web,
information designers with experience in interactive
tools such as Adobe Flash are increasingly being used to
illustrate the background to news stories.
Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the
United States in the early to mid 1950s. It derived most
directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s,
which itself developed from earlier blues, boogie woogie,
jazz and swing music, and was also influenced by gospel,
country and western, and traditional folk music. Rock
and roll in turn provided the main basis for the music
that, since the mid 1960s, has been generally known as
rock music.The phrase "rocking and rolling" originally
described the movement of a ship on the ocean, but was
used by the early twentieth century, both to describe a
spiritual fervor and as a sexual analogy. Various
gospel, blues and swing recordings used the phrase
before it became used more frequently - but still
intermittently - in the mid to late 1940s, on recordings
and in reviews of what became known as "rhythm and
blues" music aimed at a black audience. In 1951,
Cleveland, Ohio, disc jockey Alan Freed began playing
this music style while popularizing the term "rock and
roll" to describe it.Because the development of rock and
roll was an evolutionary process, no single record can
be identified as unambiguously "the first" rock and roll
record. In terms of its wide cultural impact across
society in the US and elsewhere, Bill Haley's "Rock
Around the Clock", recorded in April 1954 but not a
commercial success until the following year, is
generally recognised as an important milestone, but it
was preceded by many recordings from earlier decades in
which elements of rock and roll can be clearly discerned
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