| Formulation |
| from the History of Rock & Roll |
| 50" x 24" |
| acrylic and rhinestones on canvas |
| 2010 |
| The Brown-Rasking Collection, Elicott City, Maryland |
| Exhibitions |
| Bering Art Collective, Houston, Texas, The History of Rock & Roll, October 9 - 30, 2010 |
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| Early in the rock
and roll movement (before it was even called that) the style of music
was predominantly seen as "black music" or "race
music". Because of this, only specific or underground radio
stations would play rock and roll. Through a little bit of tweaking of
the genre and a lot of publicity, radio stations were able to create a
new "whiter" version that would be marketable to the entire
nation.
In the imagery that infuses the works from the History of Rock & Roll, the dragon here represents the musical sounds of Africa. The dragon is being hidden in the leaves of holly, with a familiar Jiminy Cricket (Holly and the Cricket?) drifting in the sunrise colors of a new day of music for the world. |
