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1960s - correct answers Time of experimentation cultural (drugs) and musical. Hippy culture- little value in mainstream culture and viewed it as the trappings of an oppressive social machine meant to keep them from experiencing life. The music to the hippies was just a tool to reinforce status quo. San Francisco - correct answers Center of hippy counterculture. The sound produced there was a fusion of electric blues, folk rock, weed, & LSD. Early groups: big brother and the holding company featuring Janis Joplin. Jefferson airplane takes off - correct answers First album of the era for SFS. First new generation of rock albums (sergeant pepper is the last) The greatful dead - correct answers Classified under jazz. Band in the 60s Large musical events - correct answers Key medium for spreading the music and message for hippies. 1st was Human Be-In. Monterey International Pop Festival - correct answers1967. Large multi day music festival featuring rock and psychedelic sounds of San Francisco. Demonstrates the ideas of peace, love, and music. John Philips - correct answersOrganized Monterey international pop festival. Part of Mamas and Papas and performed closing the festival. "Monday, Monday" "California Dreamin" - acid rock. The Who - correct answersPerformed at the Monterey and that was first big gig. Participated in London's Mod movement but folded in the new counterculture. "My Generation" performance shows that they wanted to break norms. Otis Redding - correct answersSoul singer, played at Monterey "sitting on the dock of the bay" "shake" Jimi Hendrix - correct answersOpened for the monkees at Monterey. Opened new door ways for guitar with psychedelic sound. Beatles - correct answersRetired 1966 due to hardships of touring. Album rubber soul and song "Help" changed their sound from rock to focusing on LPs- long playing records. The three albums allowed the Beatles to continue "Revolver" "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band", and "Abbey Road" Revolver - correct answersBeatles album that was the Statement that the Beatles had started a new era. Had new approaches to song writing and recording. "Eleanor Rigby" - correct answersOff of revolver. Move away from the pop song format. Use of lead and backup vocals and double string quartet which was impossible to reproduce in a concert form. Song has characters that explore themes of death and loneliness "Got to get you into my life" - correct answersMotown influence funk brothers. Vocal harmonies and arrangements of girl groups inspired. Love oriented and baseline inspired by funk brothers. Song from revolver "Tomorrow Never Knows" - correct answersMost experimental song. Includes the sitar. Song from revolver. Altered guitar and sound effects. Included music concrete: tapes in retrograde Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club - correct answersAlbum following revolver. Different type of instrumentation, recording effect, and was considered art. Abbey Road - correct answersFinal studio effort and considered best album. Woodstock "an Aquarian exposition in White Lake NY: 3 days of peace and music" - correct answersFestival that became free due to overwhelming demand. Rich havens - correct answersDay 1 of Woodstock. AA folk singer "Freedom" Joe Cocker - correct answersWoodstock opener on Sunday. English artist cover of Beatles "With a little help from my friends" Santana - correct answersOnly artist to perform at Woodstock without an album or single. "Soul Sacrifice" Afro Cuban rhythms Jimi Hendrix @ Woodstock - correct answersCloser. Most popular rock act and performance was viewed as a protest to vietnam Altamont - correct answersSymbolic death knell. Festival after Woodstock and was chaos Soul, Motown, funk - correct answersPrimary forms of musical expression associated with black culture "A change is gonna come" -Sam Cooke - correct answersFirst Protest song "Say it loud (I'm black and I'm proud)" -James brown - correct answersSong that pushed funk to become its own style rhythm based and meant for dancing. Popular amongst black and white audiences alike "What's going on" - Marvin Gaye - correct answersMotown which was less engaged with civil rights movement until this song which started the shift in political movement. Heavy metal - correct answersLouder more intense and aggressive aspects of rock and in 1970 it became its own genre and was defined by increase in guitar distortion and took the distortion of blues and rock to a new level, human vocals and screams are also distorted. Timbre=bright Van Halen - correct answersUses Marshall amps and distortion in "Runnin with the Devil" (tube= the sound) The kinks - correct answers"You really got me" precursor to the metal sound using distorted power chords. Derived from electric blues and blues rock. Steepenwolf - correct answers"Born to be Wild" first sing to use heavy metal in its lyric. Black Sabbath - correct answersParanoid the album played a big role in making metal a genre. Lead singer Ozzy Osborne formed in late 60s lyrics focused on dark themes and had distortion Deep Purple - correct answersHad a blues rock approach and incorporated aspects of classical music and had a full symphony in album "Concerto for Group and Orchestra" the standard of including classical music became standard by the 80s Led Zeppelin - correct answersStarted in late 60s by early 70s they were biggest rock band in the world. Pioneered metal sound. From London. "Stairway to heaven" is the most popular rock song of all time. "whole lotta love" is an example of bands harder edge Kiss - correct answersSecond largest rock band from New York. Their shows were spectacles and the band wore face paint and were a marketing spectacle. 1976 album "Alive" Sub-genres of rock - correct answersArt rock, prog rock, glam rock, jazz fusion. From Pink Floyd - correct answersFormed in 1965 by Syd Barrett and expanded psychedelics with "See Emily Play" Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - correct answersCalifornia group in 1968. And was first group to push rock boundaries. Blended Rock and jazz King Crimson - correct answers1969. English group to embody progressive prog rock. Was also psychedelic with blending jazz and classical "21st century Schizoid man" Miles Davis - correct answersFather of cool jazz 1970. Incorporated electronic instruments funk beats and improv. "Bitches brew" and "in a silent way" we're statements of jazz fusion Emerson, lake and Palmer - correct answersPioneer of prog rock and first supergroup of 1970. Creation of symphonic rock and used classical composers. Yes - correct answers1971. English prog rock "Roundabout" David Bowie - correct answers1972. Pop art. "Ziggy Stardust" and assumed personas Genesis - correct answers1973 "suppers ready" 26 min song. very theatrical. Embraces theater of art rock and prog rock with costume changes and tempo changes Modern day troubadours - correct answersRock in 70s. Inspired by Bob Dylan. Interested in telling a story. Ex: Billy Joel, James taylor, Bruce Springsteen Springsteen & e street band - correct answersViewed as approachable, relatable, working class messages that resonated. Told stories of unemployment, hardship, and lost love."born in the USA" an authentic rock singer work clothes even though he is a millionaire. Realism. Anti capitalism. Celebrate the ordinary. Tom waits - correct answersSinger songwriter 70s. Unknown to mainstream. Used styles similar to Kerouac, George and Ira. "The heart of Saturday night" began career as composer. Wrote "jersey girl" which was sung by Springsteen. Punk - correct answersAlternative to glam rock, progressive rock, and mainstream rock in the 70s. Angst ridden. Defiant. Based on London and NYC (MC5, Stooges, Ramones, New York Dolls, Patti Smith) Velvet underground - correct answersFormed in 1964. Managed and promoted by Andy Warhol. Songs presented a pictures of dark realities. Minimal approach. Served as model for hard edge Bands. New York Dolls - correct answersFormed In 1971. Model of contradiction, glammed with heavy makeup and costumes while performing aggressive music. The Ramones - correct answersReplaced glam with leather biker look, fast tempo, basic chord progressions, simple and repetitive instrument parts. UK punk (The Sex Pistols) - correct answersManaged by the owner of a fetish shop. "Anarchy in the UK". Only released on studio album, model for future punk bands in UK. Jamaica - correct answersWhere ska("My Boy Lollipop" & "Simmer Down"), rocksteady, and reggae came from. Bob Marley and the wailers - correct answersRasta(nationalism and social reform), slows down tempo, had difficulty amassing an audience, following "Catch a Fire" made the US Charts. The Police - correct answersLondon 1977. Appeared to follow punk formula but merged punk energy with reggae rhythm and a avant-garde rock. Highly experienced musicians. "Fall out" fit the pink mold. "Roxanne" reggae and punk blend. "Don't stand so close to me" represented the new wave. Talking heads - correct answersTheir 1984 concert film "Stop Making Sense" is one of the new waves definitive artistic statements: shows what it means to be white. Whiteness was linked with nervousness. Byrne's big suit represented art rock. The new wave was perceived as a white genre. Devo - correct answersShort for de-evolution:society was regressing and becoming robotic. The band had a dehumanized, robotic approach in song and dance. Loss of individuality "corporate feudal society" Nervousness - correct answersTitles and band names all had references to nervousness. Also seen in vocal quality and persona. Possibly done to have a commentary on the physical tensions of white middle class society and it's obsessive focus on bodily control and emotional discipline. Also reinforced the new waves rejection of a specific authenticity connected with the expressive history of the blues and other AA styles. Women in rock - correct answersEmerged in 1960s women like Janis Joplin and grace slick would represent authentic female rock personas. 1970s was the true movement as groups and leaders set in motions by Wilson sisters of heart, Stevie nicks (Fleetwood Mac), Debbie Harry (blondie) Talking heads - correct answersTheir 1984 concert film "Stop Making Sense" is one of the new waves definitive artistic statements: shows what it means to be white. Whiteness was linked with nervousness. Byrne's big suit represented art rock. The new wave was perceived as a white genre. Devo - correct answersShort for de-evolution:society was regressing and becoming robotic. The band had a dehumanized, robotic approach in song and dance. Loss of individuality "corporate feudal society" Nervousness - correct answersTitles and band names all had references to nervousness. Also seen in vocal quality and persona. Possibly done to have a commentary on the physical tensions of white middle class society and it's obsessive focus on bodily control and emotional discipline. Also reinforced the new waves rejection of a specific authenticity connected with the expressive history of the blues and other AA styles. Women in rock - correct answersEmerged in 1960s women like Janis Joplin and grace slick would represent authentic female rock personas. 1970s was the true movement as groups and leaders set in motions by Wilson sisters of heart, Stevie nicks (Fleetwood Mac), Debbie Harry (blondie) (Hynde, smith, bush) MTV - correct answersReconfigured the concept of a performing artist. Artists used this to reach new audiences. Michael Jackson - correct answersKing of pop. Best selling artist. His success with mainstream audiences was instrumental in breaking down racial divisions with American popular music. Inspired by James brown. Thriller is the biggest album of all time. Was first AA on MTV and set precedent for music video productions Madonna - correct answersFirst and most Influential music video artists U2 - correct answersMost popular rock band formed in dublin in late 70s post punk combined with new rock. Headbangers ball - correct answersLaunched by MTV in 86. Included metal in rotation. Glam metal and thrash metal were most popular. Metallica Metal - correct answersLyrics of sexual perversion, death, suicide, and violence, satanism Lollapalooza (1991)-counterculture - correct answersNew age of rock festivals for new generation. A touring festival (concert, political rally, mini mall). Suburban youth insurgency one of many cultures that fall under new rock era. Different festivals allowed people to experience different music scenes depending on destination. Idea came from Perry Farrell (lead singer of Jane's Addiction). Each band in the lineup represents a different faction of alt rock. James addiction - correct answers"Been caught stealing" from lollapalooza captured Bands political message and performance energy. Funk and roll genre H.O.R.D.E 1992 - correct answersBlues travelers John popper made a small summer tour that allows band to move to amphitheaters. Lineup of likeminded bands of the jam band scene. Didn't sell many records but were best seen live. (Phish, spin doctors) Lilith Fair - correct answers Made by Sara