Richard A Paterson’s six key factors discusses and describes the social and economic factors that produced a platform for ‘something’ new to emerge, in this instance rock and roll, and how and why this new music genres emergence was possible.
Although Paterson first appears to cover all bases in depth, after further analysis, one key and almost fatal flaw emerges from his work. Why rock and roll? At a time when numerous genres were on the rise, Paterson fails to address in particular why it was the complex mixture of genres that is rock-and-roll and not another of the copious other genres of music that took off and had such a resounding impact.
Although in my opinion Peterson has missed a substantial fragment of this topic, I am not suggesting his views are completely incorrect; rather they’re accurate, though Paterson simply misses why it was rock-and-roll in particular that emerged.
You are right to point out that Peterson (not Paterson) is accurate within the parameters that he sets but that these parameters don't really tell us what it was about rock 'n' roll, rather than some other genre that captured the world's imagination.
ReplyDeleteThank you, at least i got his name right in the last paragraph!
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