Bob Dylan was engaged in a different strategy wherein 1965 he was engaged in a controversial experiment moving from acoustic to amplified recordings as well as performances. He did not abandon the rough and raw rock ‘n' roll and had initially stated that his …show more content…
The British perspective understands rock ‘n’ roll is U.S. derived music, a hybrid of the whites and blacks that emerged in the 1950s to be a commercial force in the early 1960s. The original sounds of Little Richard and Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and Bill Haley lost their appeals as the new decade commenced. The Beatles in the UK emerged in 1962 and attracted terms like pop and beat. As the group popularity grew and as they became sophisticated especially after Bob Dylan amplified the acoustic repertoire in 1965, rock was widely used to define the emerging stage in a sonic revolution that was based on the electric guitar. Rock also was ideologically loaded with information that transcended music that has social and political signs that extend beyond the concerns of the teenagers. Rock underwent profound changes becoming more involved in headline issues affecting the society in the wake of Dylan's Newport transformation. Some of the issues include the civil rights movement in the U.S., counterculture, and drugs, and anti-Vietnam War