Rock And Roll Ended The Classic Hollywood Musical – But Gave Movies Something Entirely New

Hollywood changed rock, and rock changed Hollywood – and television, and records, and … well, see for yourself: “Rather than disguising rock ‘n’ roll’s commercial production by proposing it as folk music, these narratives emphasized all its various industrial components, and usually they culminated in a televised grand finale in which stars lip-synced to their hit records and where rock ‘n’ roll was positioned as a subsector of broadcast TV. This created a media hierarchy dominated by Hollywood: rock ‘n’ roll is contained in television, and television is itself contained in cinema.” – Berkeley News