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PAGE78 / NUMPAGES78 高级英语（上） Lesson One Rock Superstars: What Do They Tell Us about Ourselves and Our Society 背景知识（Background knowledge） Rock Music A form of popular music is characterized by a pronounced, amplified beat. Electric guitars are almost always the main instrumental sound source. The modem rock bands basic elements are one or more vocalists, an electric lead guitar and bass guitar and drums. A rhythm guitar is often included, and many bands also use keyboards. Rock-and-roll was coined in the mid-1950 by a Cleveland broadcaster, Alan Freed, to replace rhythm-and-blues——a term that Freed thought had too many racial overtones. (It was being called race music in some quarters at the time.) Rhythm-and-blues was itself an updated, urbanized stylization of the blues, which had been developed mainly by rural or country-oriented black musicians. When the music was renamed rock-and-roll, it also underwent an elemental change, particularly when white performers saw how eagerly young audiences responded. White music——that is essentially conventional popular music with a decided country-and-western flavor——was blended with rhythm-and-blues, and young people continued to hold a proprietary attitude about it. Rock went through its share of phases and participated in a number of pop culture fads. 课文要义（Main idea of the text） The author focuses on the social influences of the rock music in terms of sociology. By contrasting different attitudes toward the rock among the young and adult audience, the author points out that rock is served as an expression of social ideas, and also provides a debating stage for different ideas. Rock n roll stars express the young generations viewpoints on various political and social problems, and also help the society see its own beliefs and attitudes, and express the young mens feelings and hope. 词汇 (Vocabulary) 1. sprinkle: v. scatter or throw sth. in small drops or particles etc. on (a surface); spread Every morning