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Dublin Core
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Title
Rock Collection
Alternative Title
Rock Collection
Subject
Music--United States
Rock music--United States
Lakeland (Fla.)
Maitland (Fla.)
Orlando (Fla.)
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the history of rock music in Central Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around.
Rock music is uniquely American, emerging in the late 1940s and 1950s, with the influence of African-American blues, jazz, boogie woogie, and gospel, mixed with predominantly white country and Western swing music. This hybrid genre helped define a generation, breaking down color barriers in the South by merging African musical traditions with European instrumentation. The popularization of rock music coincided with the African-American Civil Rights Movement, which sought to end racial segregation and discrimination in the South. The sudden interest of white teens in black “race music” provoked a backlash among traditionalists and Americans found themselves in the middle of a “culture war.” The counterculture youth of the 1950s and 1960s rejected many of the mainstream cultural standards of their parents’ generation, especially in regards to race.
During the First and Second Great Migration of the 20th century, African Americans and whites began living in closer proximity to one another, more so than ever before, resulting in both races emulating the other’s style in fashion, art, and music. Rock music influenced the language, attitudes, ideas, and trends of a generation. The genre continued to evolve, incorporating new elements with each subsequent decade. During the 1960s, the subgenres of folk rock, jazz rock, country rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock, glam rock, and progressive rock emerged. Musicians in the 1970s and 1980s created punk rock, Southern rock, heavy metal, new wave, and alternative rock. By the 1990s, artist continued to expand the genre by creating rap rock, reggae rock, grunge, and indie rock.
Florida has been at the heart of rock music and the “culture war” since the 1950s. The recording industry was actively making rock records in Tampa during the 1960s and in Miami during the 1970s. Gram Parsons, a native of Winter Haven, is credited as the father of the country rock movement of the late 1960s, and Southern rock emerged from Jacksonville during the 1970s and 1980s, with bands such as the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Outlaws, and Molly Hatchet. These contributions played an integral part in the history of rock music.
Contributor
Knickerbocker, Carl
Wahl, Julie
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/140" target="_blank">Central Florida Music History Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Type
Collection
Coverage
Bob Carr Theater, Orlando, Florida
Enzian Theater, Maitland, Florida
Great Southern Music Hall, Orlando, Florida
Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, Florida
Orange County Civic Center, Orlando, Florida
Orlando-Seminole Jai Alai Fronton, Fern Park, Florida
Orlando Sports Stadium, Orlando, Florida
Tangerine Bowl, Orlando, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
Altschuler, Glenn C. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51518334" target="_blank"><em>All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America</em></a>. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Fisher, Marc. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/69594101" target="_blank"><em>Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation</em></a>. New York: Random House, 2007.
Studwell, William E., and D. F. Lonergan. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41090615" target="_blank"><em>The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from Its Beginnings to the Mid-1970s</em></a>. New York: Haworth Press, 1999.
Language
eng
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Original Format
1 black and white photograph
Dublin Core
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Title
The Tropics 30 Year Reunion
Alternative Title
The Tropics 30 Year Reunion
Subject
Tropics (Musical group)
Tampa (Fla.)
St. Petersburg (Fla.)
Music--Florida
Rock bands--Florida
Rock music--United States
Rhythm and blues music--United States
R&B (Music)
Musicians--Southern States
Concerts
Description
The Tropics, a Tampa-based band, taken on May 7, 1999, for their 30 year reunion show at the Coliseum, located at 535 Fourth Avenue North in St. Petersburg, Florida. The show was a benefit for All Children's Hospital. <br /><br />The Tropics, also known as "The Bitchin' Red Band" when performing on the Pier in Cocoa Beach, were founded in 1964 in Tampa, Florida, consisting of Buddy Pendergrass on guitar and keyboard, Eric Turner on guitar and vocals, Mel Dryer on lead vocals, Bobby Shea on drums, and Charlie Souza on bass guitar and vocals. They were performing around the state and the Southeastern United States by the summer of 1965, opening for popular acts such as The Who, The Young Rascals, and Herman's Hermits. The band won the 1966 International Battle of the Bands at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, taking first place over 441 bands, including future successful acts like Tommy James and the Shondells and Chicago. This won the group a recording contract with Columbia Records, where they recorded the single, "Take the Time," which was played on Dick Clark's <em>American Bandstand</em>, and topped the local charts. Pendergrass and Shea would later form the glam rock band, White Witch, in 1971.
Type
Still Image
Source
Original black and white photograph, May 7, 1999: <a href="http://www.tampabaymusichistory.com/bands-artists.php" target="_blank">Profiles: Bands & Artists</a>, Tampa Bay Music Scene Historical Society.
Is Part Of
<a href="http://www.tampabaymusichistory.com/bands-artists.php" target="_blank">Profiles: Bands & Artists</a>, Tampa Bay Music Scene Historical Society.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/142" target="_blank">Rock Collection</a>, Central Florida Music History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original black and white photograph, May 7, 1999. <a href="http://www.tampabaymusichistory.com/resources/15743_215138837836_840642_n.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.tampabaymusichistory.com/resources/15743_215138837836_840642_n.jpg</a>.
Coverage
Tampa, Florida
The Coliseum, St. Petersburg, Florida
Publisher
<a href="http://www.tampabaymusichistory.com/" target="_blank">Tampa Bay Music Scene Historical Society</a>
Date Created
1999-05-07
Format
image/jpg
Extent
51.3 KB
Medium
1 black and white photograph
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Humanities Teacher
Music Teacher
Provenance
Published digitally by <a href="http://www.tampabaymusichistory.com/" target="_blank">Tampa Bay Music Scene Historical Society</a>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://www.tampabaymusichistory.com/" target="_blank">Tampa Bay Music Scene Historical Society</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="http://www.tampabaymusichistory.com/" target="_blank">Tampa Bay Music Scene Historical Society</a>
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.tampabaymusichistory.com/" target="_blank">Tampa Bay Music Scene Historical Society</a>
External Reference
Jones, Martin. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/759863392" target="_blank"><em>Lovers Buggers & Thieves: Garage Rock - Monster Rock - Progressive Rock - Psychedelic Rock - Folk Rock. Vol. 1</em></a>. Manchester: Headpress, 2005.
"<a href="http://www.tampabaymusichistory.com/the-tropics.php" target="_blank">The Tropics</a>." TampaBayMusicHistory.com. http://www.tampabaymusichistory.com/the-tropics.php.
All Children's Hospital
charity
classic rock
Columbia Records
concert
Dryer, Mel
hospital
music
musician
Pendergrass, Buddy
Pendergrass, Hardin
pop rock
R&B
reunion
reunion show
rhythm and blues
rock
rock band
rock music
Shea, Bobby
Shea, Robert "Bobby"
Souza, Charles "Charlie"
Souza, Charlie
St. Petersburg
Tampa
Tampa Bay
The Bitchin' Red Band
The Coliseum
The Tropics
Turner, Eric