Rock and Roll Lesson 5/19/15 - New Wave Day II

1. View a clip of Jerry Lee Lewis performing "Great Balls of Fire." 
2. Answer the questions below.  

• In what ways does this early Rock and Roll performance prefigure New Wave music?
• In what ways does the fashion, the delivery, and the music itself prefigure New Wave?

3.  View the 1956 clip of Connie Francis performing "Little Blue Wren." Make notes as they watch and listen.  Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire" came out the following year, in 1957.  

Compare the two clips, and answer...

• How is the instrumentation different in the two songs?
• How is the vocal style different?
• How are the performers' personalities different?
• How could the style of Jerry Lee Lewis' song be considered a reaction to the other song's style?

4.  Based on the two clips, what connection can you make between early Rock and Roll and New Wave music? 

5.  Play the clip of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive." 

6. Based on the clip, make a list of things in the song, "I Will Survive" that are elements which New Wave rebelled against.