文档介绍：Unit Two
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Rock and Roll
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By Julia Yuan
Unit Two Text A
I. Pre-reading Task
II. Related Information
III. Detailed Study
IV. Outline& Summary
V. Home Assignment
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Pre-reading Task:
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1. Rock and es mainly from black African music.
2. An electric guitar is a necessary instrument in Tock and Toll music.
3. The King of Rock and Toll is John Winston Lenon.
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Before reading the passage, decide whether the statements are True or False.
(F)
(F)
T: Rock and es mainly from the interaction of black African and white European music.
T: The King of Rock and Toll is Elvis Presley.
(T)
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II. Related Information: (1) Elvis Presley
. Elvis Presley was the first real rock and roll star. A white southerner who singing blues laced with country and country tinged with gospel, Presley brought together music from both sides of the color line. Presley performed this music with a natural hip swiveling sexuality that made him a teen idol and a role model for generations of cool rebels. Presley was repeatedly dismissed as vulgar, petent and a bad influence. However the force of his music and image signaled to the mainstream culture it was time for a change.
Born January 8, 1935, in East Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley was the son of Gladys and Vernon Presley, a sewing machine operator and a truck driver.
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II. Related Information: (1) Elvis Presley
At eighteen majoring in Shop, History, and English, he graduates from Humes High in 1953. The day after graduation he took a job at Parker Machinists Shop. By June he was working at the Precision pany and then drove truck for the Crown Electric Co. That summer he recorded "My Happiness" and "That's When the Your Heartaches Begin" at  Memphis Recording Studios, a sideline Sam Phillips had started at his Sun Records studios where anyone could record a ten inch acetate for four dollars.
Presley returned on Jan