No British Invasion

WI racial and religious tensions keep rock and roll from really being accepted. With a POD of 1958 Elvis dies during manuevers in Germany. The Beatles plane goes down on their way to New York. How does this ATL play out? What is the world like w/o rock and roll?
 
To many butterflys in music to really predict. Rock and rolls abscense would either be a minimal effect, grow popular later, or lead to a dramaticaly affect culture.

Personally I believe music has profound impacts on culture wheter we believe so or not. I imagine a lack of rock prevents the development of other types of music such as rap, country, heavy metal, techno, etc. Or at least makes them dramatically different (ie. country would be more folksy than it already is, rap would be more jazz oreinted)

Sexual Revolution is delayed at least...

American Music would be dominated by jazz, swing, and big band until at least the 60's or 70's. It would have some crazy branches though, especially a branch influenced by the drug revoltuoon of the 60's. Also I see Spanish Salsa and Latin music growing in popularity as the new big music "import" will be from Mexican and Latin American immigrants.

Many cultural changes would probably happen (interseting to see where the rural areas, south, and "redneck" areas would be without country music culture, same for inner cities and black areas without rap and hip-hop.) but I do doubt there would be many political changes, not yet at least. Remember, everyone in charge still lived in the swing-big band era, rock was only just devloping.
 
I actually think the world would be a better place with out the mantra Sex drugs and rock and roll

and the other one here for a good time not a long time

that rock embraces and spreads

also thank god no more elvis or bad beattles or john lennon music. And the hippie protest rock never comes out

god hippie protest country and jazz and big band would be really funny or would it just stay all folk like
 
WI racial and religious tensions keep rock and roll from really being accepted. With a POD of 1958 Elvis dies during manuevers in Germany. The Beatles plane goes down on their way to New York. How does this ATL play out? What is the world like w/o rock and roll?

There were others the might be able to take the place of Elvis and the Beatles. Elvis's initial effect had already happened by the time he was drafted to serve. After he served Elvis became primarily a movie star. The Dave Clark 5 was a pretty big band too at the time, they were just overshadowed by The Beatles.

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With the tragedy of such a huge group to come over here, do many bands decide to stay in the UK. And with racial tensions high because their is no one so big that raises it out of being a niche genre(whites that want to cover Black music). The Brits take what little they can get from here, and turn it into their own, maybe electrifying folk instruments or using trad arrangements with their new sound. While over here the Bakersfield sound takes hold and Country music reigns supreme.
 
Many factors guided music in the sixties

Let us not forget that the evolution of rock music was as attributable to technology as much as to cultural factors. From the introduction of tape recording in the early fifties to Dolby noise reduction in the sixties, to the market penetration of high fidelity into most households in the seventies, the evolution of music that took advantage of the full audio spectrum was inevitable.

Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” in 1954 was a musical anomaly that fit no established pattern of music. Chuck Barry established a style based on the fast paced rock pattern. Elvis Presley earmarked the style with a voice. Buddy Holly made his mark briefly before passing away in early 1959.

Then, the wind was knocked out of American rock and roll, temporarily. The music form was labeled “immoral.” A conservative backlash in 1959 and 1960 showed down the movement. When he returned from military service, Elvis did not continue with “Hound Dog” or “Jailhouse Rock;” rather, he gave us “Love Me Tender.” The Beach Boys kept up with the slow pace.

Meanwhile, rock continued to evolve in places where American reactionary conservatives had no influence: The African-American community and England. The evolution of “soul” from rhythm and blues was one of the most significant events in music in the early sixties. What song did the Beatles cover in 1964? The soul piece “Twist and Shout,” first recorded by the Isley Brothers.

The explosion of new music in the mid sixties was inevitable. Look at the demographics of the baby boom coming of age. Elvis, like Buddy Holly, made his primary mark on music in the fifties and if his career ended in 1960, music would have scarcely changed. The British Invasion happened because rock music was sequestered in the United States. Had Buddy Holly lived into the sixties, the cutting edge of popular music could have stayed in the U.S. mainstream, gradually evolving into a combination of American soul and British rock. Hence, there would be no sudden invasion of the faster British/Beatles style.
 
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I actually think the world would be a better place with out the mantra Sex drugs and rock and roll

and the other one here for a good time not a long time

that rock embraces and spreads

also thank god no more elvis or bad beattles or john lennon music. And the hippie protest rock never comes out

god hippie protest country and jazz and big band would be really funny or would it just stay all folk like

I think so too, none of that whinny hippie protest music. That would be nice.
 
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