CME Final Exam

Racial Ambivalence

amphi = both/opposites / valence = strong feelings opposing feelings: inner conflict, coexistence of strong negative and positive feelings

European vs African Music

African:

everyone participates in the art

microtonal scale

slurs, vibratos, shouts

improvisation: adapting based on surrounding musicians

chromaticism: cluster tones, tensions

syncopation: layers of rhythmic complexity

European:

defined distinction between performer and audience, passively absorbing music

tempered diatonic scale: half-tones

notes fixed in notation, tonally fixed to 12 tone scale

appropriation

appropriation: taking from a culture with little understanding of it

appreciation: having a deeper understanding from the culture you are borrowing ideas from, expanding upon that knowledge in a different creative context in your music

Iggy izaelia or bhad baby using black vernacular while note actually speaking in that way outside of that context

Bert Williams

A key figure in the development of black entertainment

minstrel show comedian: wore black face over his already black face

songwriter loved by black and whites

he had to wear blackface in order to conform to white stereotypes, however he downplayed the shows racist aspects and instead emphasized finding comedy out of universal situations

- however he was the first black American to take a lead role in a broadway stage

- The all black show In Dahomey was a broadway success

he also was the first African American to become a best selling recording artist, remaining the best selling black artist until 1920

- New York Dramatic Mirror, a theatrical trade newspaper of the time, called him "one of the greatest comedians of the world"

"syncopation rules the nation"

Folk vs High vs mass vs popular culture

high art: cultural and artistic products that have a high status, usually belonging to the tastes of educated and wealthy

mass art: negative connotation, cultural tastes of the majority of the population

popular culture: usually a more positive connotation then mass art

Folk: small tradition bound culture, usually among smaller specific cultures

Jim Crow

Jim Crow

Artist- Thomas Dartmouth Rice was the face of Jim Crow (a white blackface minstrel character)

Argument: Dartmouth Rice was the First American Pop Star

Minstrel character of the happy, obedient plantation slave that wasn't the smartest

Stereotypes reassure white people

Created the Jim Crow stereotype that would then be the unofficial name for legislation

Song- "jump jim crow"

Legal era- jim crow laws were in place especially in the south

segregation was used in public schools, places, transportation

Laws reflect the cultural segregation that was taking placed and being reinforced by legislation

In contrast to Zip Coon (George Washington Dixon), another popular minstrel character that was conniving and sneaky. Meant to be a mockery of freed blacks, was characterized as arrogant, over-articulate.

Minstresly

started with Thomas Dartmouth Rice developing an onstage character "Jim Crow"

- over emphasized black dialect and mannerisms reflecting racist stereotypes

- negro impersonation

- popular among whites in the 1800s, became popularized beyond his performance

song: jump Jim crow

entrepreneur : Thomas Dartmouth Rice

Bessie Smith

Promoted as queen of the blues by Columbia, public considered her empress of the blues

"Downhearted blues" sold over 750k saving Columbia when radio was becoming the more popular format for consumers than buying records

-influenced pop singers such as: Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Beyonce, Amy Winehouse

- sung of her life, topics of the blues, alcoholism, poverty, unrequited love

Hillbilly and Jazz Commonalities

Hillbilly: music of lower class white / southern folk, but mix of ethnic influences with the induction of fiddle and banjo

Blues: lower class black music, originating from call and response slave songs

Jazz: middle/upper class music, originated in New Orleans, combining blues styles with syncopation

Duke Ellington

self-taught pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger,

- duke Ellington and his Orchestra

- advanced jazz form harmonically with never before heard complex cluster tones, free to use dissonances

- advanced jazz form texturally with growling trumpet sounds in his band

-as a bandleader encouraged his side musicians to express themselves freely, wrote music that capitalized on the soloist talent of the members of the group

- wrote in a sentimental mood, sophisticated thing, it don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing)

George Gershwin

Tin Pan Alley Songwriter, closest association to jazz music

- affinity for African American music

- wrote "rhapsody in blue" which was written for jazz band and piano

- combined European and jazz / African influences, leading to interest and acceptance from black and white Audiences

- wrote "summertime" jazz classic

- helped bridge gap between "art" music and "pop" music

Irving Berlin (1888-1989)

Became song plugger and producer at Tin Pan Alley

- writing a lot of ragtime

Composed jazz songs for a golden age of musical theatre

- wrote a show that would only cast American soldiers (wwI): yip-yip-yank

- wrote wwII movie "this is the army" with song "oh how I hate to get up in the morning"

- wrote "god bless america", fourth of July song

- wrote anthem of show biz: "there's on business like show business"

- wrote quintessential Christmas song: "white Christmas", bing Crosbys version is the best selling single ever, having sold over 50 million copies worldwide

- this began the Christmas songbook industry, before Irving Berlin there was no such thing

Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933)

Called the "Singing Brakeman," he was the most versatile, progressive, and widely influential of all the early country recording artists and was early country music's biggest recording star. His influence can be seen in the public images of Hank Williams, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and almost every contemporary male country music star.

- blackface minstrel to hillbilly star

- 1st star of country

- influenced artists like bob Dylan and Johnny Cash

- incorporated yodeling into the blues, broad range of instruments like ukulele, piano, brass

John Hammond

Producer and head of A&R for Columbia

Influential jazz enthusiast and promoter who helped Benny Goodman, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, and (much later) Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen secure recording contracts with Columbia Records, where he worked as an A&R (artists and repertoire) man.

He produced blowing in the wind

- widely respected by African Americans as he attempted to break down racial barriers, promoted black jazz music originators

- eg Carnegie Hall shows 1938-39 "from spirituals to swing"

- bringing together white clarinetist benny goodman and black pianist teddy Wilson together

- also he discovered Bob Dylan, produced his first self titled album and co produced 2nd album "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" with Tom Wilson

Louie Armstrong

trumpeter, vocalist, composer who pioneered many musical concepts and techniques which have been encoded into the form of jazz and popular music in general

Supporting details

- affirmed blues tonality in jazz through trumpet and vocal

- father of modern time with the encoding of swing in jazz

- invented American singing: highly expressive, bending pitch, instrument-like improv, scat singing, influenced singers like Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby

Ragtime

paralleled the rise of tin pan alley

- began as syncopated African American music with ties to European marches

Ralph Peer

argument: as a record producer, engineer, talent scout, music publisher, and pioneer of field recording, Ralph Peer was instrumental in the documentation of country music and its genesis in recorded music

- recorded one of the earliest country recordings, Fiddlin' John Carsons rendition of "Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane"

Recorded Jimmie Rodgers, widely considered the father of country, and the Carter family during the Bristol Sessions in Bristol Tennessee

- directed the recording of "Crazy Blues" by Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds, first commercially successfully blues record, sparking interest in blues music

- conducted field recordings in 1923 in Atlanta Georgia

Thomas Edison

sparked birth of recorded music with the invention of the phonograph

- devices prior to the phonograph could record sound, but the phonograph was the first record that could both record and reproduce sound

Emile Berliner

Inventor of process for mass production of recorded music

- began the mass production of records with his invention of the flat disc record

- promotion of its use in The Gramophone Company, which became part of EMI

Tin Pan Alley

a city district (originally in New York) where composers and publishers of popular music do business

- Located in Manhattan, on West 28th st Between and Sixth Ave

-began with the popularity of sheet music which became a top product

-combined songwriters music with that of broadway vaudeville and ballads

-first time music is marketed to the public

Big Band Jazz / Swing

Billie Holiday "Strange Fruit"

first artist to sing about protest issues with black artists

- protesting lyching of black americans

- billie holiday was unnnerved when she first sang it, crowd slowly but eventually applauded

Early foundation of r&b, melow instrumentation with soft expressive singing that expressed a big statement

- influence: sade, Erykah Badu, and Amy Winehouse

Bing Cosby

- released the best selling single of all time: "White Christmas"

First multimedia star (music and movies)

- Leader in record sales, radio ratings and multipicture grossing, won an academy award for best actor in 1944

- released the best selling single of all time: "White Christmas"

- First performer to use Ampex tape recorder, revolutionizing the post war recording industry

The Blues

segmented into country, city and classic, each with different tropes

tropes:

Gave way to black Americans being a legitimate market/audience, leading to creation of "race music" and "race records"

Frank Sinatra

first pop singer to engender hysteria, made crowds of girls swoon

Sinatra led a change from big bands fronted with singers to singers being backed by backing bands.

- late 30s, early 40s

Les Paul

Jazz, Blues, and Country guitarist

- early development and foundation of rock n roll

created the solid body electric guitar, making it sound much different from its acoustic counterpart

- progressing into the sound of upcoming rock genre

pioneered the use of: overdubbing, multitrack recording, tape delay

developing a bunch of effects and techniques that are widely used today

Milt Gabler

Milt Gabler was a record producer who was responsible for recording some of the greatest acts and most influential songs in jazz and early rock n roll music

- recorded and released billie holidays "strange fruit" on commodore records

- first to pair Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald on record

- produced "rock around the clock" rendition by bill haley and the comets, one of the first singles to prove rock n rolls mainstream crossover appeal

The Who

Came out of The British Invasion

Very popular in the UK

Played a big role in turning rock into art

originated the rock opera: 1969 album / rock opera Tommy

- influence fashion created a pop art image, fashioning themselves in the British subculture "mod" image / fashion / look

- use of power chord, noise, feedback influenced hard rock, punk rock

- guitar smashing, proto punk aesthetic

Jazz (origin and evolution of)

Originated in New Orleans

- Black, White, Creole social circles

The meeting of uptown Africans brass and string band blues with downtown creole band tradition of notated music , classical traininng

improv

improv blues styles combined with notated rags

jazz became dance music

- trend spread rapidly during the depression

- people from the south move up to the north because of economic conditions

- bring music with them, stars like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington come up

Alan Freed

Helped to popularize r&b

DJ for WINS (AM radio station)

Responsible for radio surge of r&b, bringing it to pop

- first to play the genre

- first to use the term rock n roll in radio

Had a bad downfall because he received payola: labels paying radio DJs to play their songs

Chess Records and Associated Artists

Independent record label founded by Leonard and Phil Chess, due to increased demand of r&b

- located in Chicago

powerhouse for Chicago blues and r&b

- home to Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Etta James

Home to producer Willie Dixon

- Chuck Berry Bo Diddley, made music that could relate to white teen culture without disowning their own culture and music, singing about cars, schools, girls

White producer working with black artists

Chuck Berry

created mix of single note and double stop lines

- related r&b to teenage culture, relationships, cars, alcohol

Uptown R&B

Uptown R&B

Polished, urban take on R&B

Pioneering work by producers jerry leiber and mike stoller songs like "there goes my baby" performed by the ronettes

Producers such as Luther Dixon, Phil Spector, Berry Gordy advanced the uptown R&B sound

Artists such as Ben E. King, Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke

Ben E King: "Stand By Me"

Tropes

Expanding the sounds then earlier R&B:

Leiber and Stoller: 1 - 6 - 4 - 5 chord progression, brass, double bass, echoing amp reverbs, gentle percussion, doo wop vocals

Berry Gordy: again amp reverbs, booming drums, sharp rhythm guitars, complex basslines, sometimes lavish string arrangements

Distinguishes itself from earlier r&b by differing from the 12 bar blue formula

Elvis

Fats Domino

Boogie Woogie piano player

"Rock n Roll safety valve"

Pat Boone covered "Ain't That A Shame", pushing him into stardom

Became a rockstar without altering the r&b sound

Transcending racism and ageism

A warm, inviting, smiling, "teddy bear"

Embodying the New Orleans sound

Produced and recorded in Matassa's studio

Had 36 top 40 hits, sold over 65 million records, second best selling artist of the fifties behind Elvis

- scored more hit records then chuck berry, little Richard, and buddy holly put together

One of first r&b artists to gain popularity with white audiences

Bringing together black and white people for the appreciation of music

Hits: Ain't That A Shame, Blueberry Hill

Discovered and produced by: Dave Bartholomew

Where he was signed at Imperial Records

"The Fat Man" : first millions selling rock n roll record

Little Richard

"the steam that blew the valve"

- flamboyant sexual showman, big personality

- laid down foundation of rock n roll

R&B + C&W = R&R (the merits of this equation)

Sam Philips and Sun Records

- Created Rockabilly sound

- merged rhythm and blues with country western

- "If I could find a white man who had the negro sound and negro feel, I could make a billion dollars"

filtered black experience through white performers for mainstream market

- understood profitability of black sound

- home to bill haley, first major white rock n roll act to reach mainstream success with rockabilly

ASCAP vs BMI

ASCAP vs BMI

Publisher vs Broadcaster tension dates back to 1922, when ASCAP members made their demand for a 5$ a day royalty fee from radio play and radio formed National Association of Broadcasters in response

- ASCAP income from radio was 20 percent of profits in the 30s, with profits rising from 757,340 in 1932 to 4.3 million in 1939

What caused tension between ASCAP and broadcasters

- ASCAP fee for blanket license (allowing broadcasters to play any selection in ASCAP catalogue) was 5% of receipts of all radio programs (not just music! Talk shows, sports)

- ASCAP wanted to double its revenues in 1940 with a sliding scale fee charging 3% to smaller broadcasters and 7.5% to larger ones

Broadcasters "close ranks"

- In 1939 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) form their own performing rights organization, challenging ASCAP monopoly

Launch of BMI

- BMI positions itself as publishers and writers in grassroots areas, not just major cities NYC LA, Hollywood

- Although ASCAP represents major artists like George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, NAB boycotts ASCAP for 10 months in 1951 replacing their music

- BMI contains: Ralph Peer offers catalogue of Latin popular music, Roy Acuff and Fred Rose offer Acuff-Rose country catalogue, E.B. Marks, Tin Pan Alley Firm offers pop music

Broadcasters and Publishers come to terms only in 1941, after federally initiated antitrust action forcing regulation of ASCAP

Doo-Wop

Mostly black urban vocal harmony groups

- combination of jazz, pop, gospel, blues

- Greil Marcus: "first form of rock n roll to take shape, to define itself as something people recognized as something new, different, theirs"

R&B covers in the 1950s and in the 1980s

CROSSOVER

Theft of black artists' songs, with higher sales and charts than the originals

-Robert Palmer

Atlantic Records / its founders, its significance, artists associated with it

Founded in 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson

Ahmet developed a reputation of treating black artists fairly, and him and his brother had a comprehensive knowledge of jazz and blues

Jerry Wexler joined in 1953 and became head of A&R

Reviewer for billboard said to have invented the term rhythm and blues

Ahmets brother Nesuhi created the jazz division

Ray Charles

Rick Rubin

formed Def Jam records, founded in Weinstein

Applied breaks and to hip-hop production, brought song arrangements and choruses and full production to hip hop using his rock / punk background

he ushered in the beat box era with detuned 808 drums, also was an innovator in using dissonant samples

great A&R man, signed to Def Jam The Beastie Boys, Slayer, LL Cool J, Public Enemy

Brill Building

1619 Broadway

Songwriters: Carole King, George Goffin, Jeff Barry, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil

Higher prevalence of female writers than in Tin Pan Alley

was to rock n roll as tin pan alley was to previous popular music generation

writers write songs, singers sing them, a&r bringing them together, as had occurred with tin pan alley

The Coasters

Vocal group on Atlanta roster

produced by Leiber and Stoller

began as the Robins in LA with number 1 r&b hit "double crossed blues"

first six singles (produced by Leiber and stoller) were top ten pop hits

"searchin" "young blood" "yakety yak" "Charlie Brown" "along came jones" "poison ivy'

cultural factors leading to demise of rock n roll (late 1950s)

rock n roll ethos is at odds with powers that be, conservatism, conformist culture of the 1950s, Eisenhower philosophy

Duke Ellington

self-taught pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger,

Famously played at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he played for singers, floor shows, dancers

- duke Ellington and his Orchestra

- advanced jazz form harmonically with never before heard complex cluster tones, free to use dissonances

- advanced jazz form texturally with growling trumpet sounds in his band

-as a bandleader encouraged his side musicians to express themselves freely, wrote music that capitalized on the soloist talent of the members of the group

- wrote in a sentimental mood, sophisticated thing, it don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing)

Girl Groups in the 1960s

Girl Groups in the 1960s

Completely Dominated the charts in the early and mid sixties until The British Invasion

- The Motown girl group sound had a big influence on the early Beatles

polished urban r&b sound pioneered by producers such as Luther Dixon, Berry Gordy, Phil Spector

Phil Spector produced The Crystals, The Ronettes, but he saw them more as a piece of his production vision

Martha and the Vandellas, Diana Ross and The Supremes were on Motown

Spirit of early rock n roll, now through black female vocal groups

Very popular until the british invasion

1962: because of girl groups, more black artists appear on the charts then ever before

The Crystals "he's a rebel", Martha and the Vendellas "heatwave" "Quicksand" marvelettes "please mr postman", the ronettes "please be my baby"

Leiber and Stoller

-songwriting team of rock and roll and soul artists

-Atlantic

-produced: "yakety yak" "hound dog" "stand by me"

-foundation of soul sound: fused strings and r&b

Alan Freed

Helped to popularize r&b

DJ for WINS (AM radio station)

Responsible for radio surge of r&b, bringing it to pop

- first to play the genre

- first to use the term rock n roll in radio

Had a bad downfall because he received payola: labels paying radio DJs to play their songs

Schlock Rock

resulted from end of first R&b wave at the end of the 50s, Elvis drafted, chuck berry arrested, buddy holly died

new generation of artists from philly

- swan

- chancellor

- cameo parkway

dick clark starts American bandstand in Philly giving these artists a starting point

- 1st show to launch rock artists and music

A white, middle class face for rock 'n' roll

Energy, rebellion, sex disappear

also known as bubblegum pop; bland songs by white artists about neutral topics such as romantic love

British Invasion (60s and 80s)

Started by the Beatles

- Rolling Stones, The Animals, The Who

- blues influenced

second wave

- the kinks, duran duran, the police

Uptown R&B

Ben E King, Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke

Ben E King: "Stand by me"

Wall of Sound

music production technique created by Phil sound

large and dense sound without distortion

stacking multiple instruments

The Wrecking Crew & Goldstar Studios

one of the most prolific session recording units in history

group of session musicians with background in jazz and classical but lent their expertise to pop music

Worked in Goldstar Studios in LA

Go-to crew for Phil Spector

The Beach Boys

Founded in California in 1961, they popularized the "California sound" in the early 1960s. Their hit songs included "Surfin' Safari," "Surfer Girl," "California Girls," "Surfin' USA" and "Good Vibrations."

pet sounds inspired sgt pepper

Brian Wilson

Vocal Harmonies

The definitive surf group

Group was a Family affair

Sophisticated vocal harmonies and elegant counterpoint created sound that was unique among US rock groups... "were white and we sing white"

Curators of teen anthems.... Many similarities here to chuck berry (inspiration)

"Surfin USA"

Signed to capitol

Pet Sounds was a huge inspiration for Sgt. Pepper

Production was overseen by Brian Wilson

Vocal harmonies

High, treble guitar and ¼ note bass drum pulse

Neil Bogart

In 1973, he founded Casablanca Records, the home to bubblegum pop/ major disco artists as Donna Summer, the Village People, and Lipps, Inc. They also released albums by Parliament

- had a pop mindset that helped him with popularize disco

first signed KISS and later became associated with the rise of disco by promoting careers of Donna Summer and The Village People

also signed parliament and other funk groups

helped contribute to the commercialization of disco with Donna Summers, one of the biggest stars in Disco

The Rolling Stones

Bad boy image, rawness, grittiness in opposition to the friendlier image of the Beatles

- indebted to black American music influence, blues music

- signature songs of the 60s such as Satisfaction and Gimme Shelter, Paint it Black harsh edgy sound that represented the tumultuousness of the 60s era

- forefront of the British Invasion

- One of the best selling acts of all time, having sold an estimated 250 million records

- they are also one of the most prolific and long lasting rock bands, having released 30 studio albums and performing for decades and decades to today

Aretha Franklin

symbol of black pride and soul music

1960 signed with Columbia Records, not a good fit

- turned Aretha into jazzy pop singer

- she was more into progressing from her background in blues and gospel

1966: signs with Atlantic, more creative control

songs reflected black strength and power in face of racial oppression

- you make me feel like a natural woman, respect, young gifted and black

amazing grace (1970) - returns to church roots

- sold over 2 mil. one of the most successful gospel artists of the era

Berry Gordy

started artist/career development

- founder of motown

changed global culture as pop became black music with Motown

- A&R: taught black artists to be "proper" to be palatable to whites (hold a mic right, tuck ur ass in)

started Motown: first black owned company that becomes a driving force in the culture

- biggest black business inn America until the 80s

created assembly line

- songwriters

- birth of A&R

- massive radio success for black artists

over 100 singles In top 10 of pop in 10 years

- Jackson 5

- stevie wonder

- Diana ross

'- the temptations

- smokey Robinson

The Funk Brothers

One of the most successful session music groups in history

Motown house band

the studio musicians of Motown who "played on more number-one hits than the Beatles, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys combined."

1959 until Motown move to LA in 1972

extensive jazz training

pianist/bandleader: Joe hunter, bassist James jamerson, drummer William benny Benjamin

Innovative techniques

- two, sometimes three drummers

- complex melodic baselines

- combining really funky rhythmic playing with jazz inflected chords

Hitsville vs Soulsville

Hitsville

- Motown, black owned

- goal is upward mobility, getting black artists in front of white audiences while also having black audience

- learned ettiequte

- berry gordy

Soulsville

- stax white owned

- memphis

- raw, natural,

- not made to please audience

- integrated white and black players

- unrefined music

Jim Stewart, Estell Axon, Al Bell & Stax (and associated artist)

jim Stewart: producer who co founded stax records

Estell axon: cofounded with Jim her brother

Al Bell: became co owner of stax in 1969

Motown and Associated Artists

Stevie wonder, marvin gaye, the temptations, smokey robinson

British Invasion (60s and 80s)

Started by the Beatles

- Rolling Stones, The Animals, The Who

- blues influenced

second wave

- the kinks, duran duran, the police

Ray Charles

father of soul

- sound originating in gospel

- "I Got A Woman"

sang secular lyrics to a gospel tune

Chess Records and Associated Artists

Independent label founded by Leonard and Phil Chess, due to increasing demand of r&b

A powerhouse for Chicago Blues and r&b

Ultimately taking over the urban blues scene and producing a lot of hits

Home to Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Etta James

Home to producer Willie Dixon

Showing the rise of white executives and black producer relationships

Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder

Starts out as Lil Stevie, factors in his evolution

Coming of age

Jazz: tensions, extensions, modal scales, latin influence

The beatles influence

Synth used in an organic way

Malcolm Cecil - Bob Margolese synth makers who work with stevie

Rhodes plus synth bassline trope

Synth fugues (multiple lines)

Synth leads

Acoustic guitar in R&B

Latin rhythms

Bassline reharmonization

Clavinet trope

Synth vamp

Harmonic tensions

The Beatles

most successful recording act of all time

- started launch of the British invasion

made rock fine art

- use of strings on she's leaving home, Eleanor Rigby, yesterday, classical sound

- used studio as instrument: tape loops on tomorrow never knows, sound collagel elements on I Am The Walrus

proto heavy metal: Heater Skelter

Indian Influence, sitar: Norwegian wood, love you to

psychedelia: she said she said

Soul influence: Got to get you into my life

invented music video: a hard days night (1964)

band -> brand

Folk and folk rock influence: I'm looking through you, mother natures song

concept album: sgt peppers, imaginary band

each had individual personalities

established tropes of 60s pop

crochet rhythm, Rickenbacker 12 string sound, major line cliche

The Rolling Stones

Bad boy image

Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

known as the first concept album

Four Track Recording, individual tracks were bounced to one

British Invasion (60s and 80s)

Started by the Beatles

- Rolling Stones, The Animals, The Who

- blues influenced

second wave

- the kinks, duran duran, the police

The Byrds

Number one single with Bob Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man

Catalyst for folk rock by electrifying Dylans song

Albert Grossman

Responsible for a number of folk and rock successes, integral in its revival

- surveyed the scene at Gerde's Folk City

- Manager of: Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Peter, Paul and Mary

Altamont / Gimme Shelter

San Francisco rock festival held at Altamonte speedway by the Rolling Stones, for the finale of their promo tour

Members of the hells angels motorcycle club were hired as security

- harassed and assaulted people for getting too close to the stage

- concert resulted in 4 deaths

Jefferson Airplane's Marty Balin was knocked unconscious

Downfall of the counterculture

- hippies and activists attacked under Nixon's approval

Bob Dylan

changed lyrical content of popular music as a folk artist

topical songs like Oxford town, and The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carrol about racism and racial violence

music as a means of protest

bridged gap between folk and rock music

- substantive lyrics, rock n roll isntrumentationn

1960s counterculture

1950s culture: materialism, consumerism, patriarchy, assimilation, homogeneity, TV/mass media culture, processed food, sexual repression, conservatism

youth contrasted this with culture of their own

counterculture: black power, self expression, drug use/raised consciousness, anti-war media, vegetarianism/organic food

biggest change in American culture ever:

- rejection of patriarchy and consumerism

- political music, Pete Seeger "We Shall Overcome"

Woodstock and Monterey pop festival

sgt peppers

Tommy

Folk Music and Civil Rights

folk music is backdrop of civil rights movement

Bob Dylan singing alongside MLK o

Folk Rock

Bob Dylan added electric instruments to lyrical folk music

2 of the biggest folk rock singles:

subterranean homesick blues

like a rolling stone

3 of the first folk rock albums:

bringing it all back home

highway 61 revisited

blonde on blonde

Bob Dylans performance at Newport Folk Festival

- angered folk rock purists because he went electric, Pete Seeger wanted to cut the wire

The Byrds cover Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan's electric band went on to form The Band (Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm). Together, Bob Dylan and The Band they set the scene for folk Rock.

Songs are generally "storytelling", sometimes political/topical, sometimes just fun or traditional. Musically, you would find clear vocal harmonies and clean sounding guitars (no wild effects).

amplified folk music, often featuring politically overt lyrics; influenced by rock and roll

Simon and Garfunkel

folk duo from the 1960s

"Sound of Silence" (Hello darkness my old friend)

forced to get back together and made their hit "bridge over troubled"

they hated each other

launched the career of Paul Simon as a lyricist

Grateful Dead

San Francisco-based psychedelic band featuring Jerry Garcia

Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.

One of the first purveyors of Psychedelic music- they made music that was tailored to be the soundtrack to LSD trips right as acid and drug induced consciousness expansion was becoming a hallmark of the counterculture.

Their music was largely based around extended bluesy jam sessions, which they would often use to stretch out their songs to 15 or 20 minutes when playing live.

Started in California but were notorious for their rigorous touring schedule- they lived on the road and had a contingent of extremely dedicated fans called "deadheads" who traveled show to show with them and embraced the free love culture that the band championed.

Janis Joplin

White female blues singer in the 1960s who epitomized women liberation and 60s counterculture with her extremely unrestrained, raw, emotional style

- rose to fame during a performance at the montery pop 1967 festival

- she had a profound ability to connect with her audience in her performances

- also really epitomized the blues, with putting her pain and suffering (felt isolated growing up) into something beautiful with her art

- wailing vocal style

- as her career progressed she was influenced by her contemporaries such as Aretha Franklin another very powerful female singer and Otis Redding, who had a similarly raw style

- very influenced by bessie smith

- she was charismatic, powerful, raw at a time when many women were discouraged from performance/music careers

- favored émotional expression over staying in a single genre, her music spanned blues, folk, soul, and psychedelic influences

- she died at 27 of an opioid overdose

signature songs:

cover versions of "piece of my heart", "Summertime", "down on me", "Cry Baby", and her original song "Mercedes Benz"

Jann Wenner / Rolling Stone

Jimi Hendrix & Montery Pop

The Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival occurred a week earlier and was technically the first rock festival, but Montery Pop was the first rock festiva to capture the public imagination

- took place in 3 days in Montery California 1967

- almost three dozen acts

- anywhere from 25,000 to 90,000 people

Debut of Jimi Hendrix to a large audience

- kicked off first US tour of the Jimi Hendrix Experience

- played songs like purple haze, the wind cries Mary, Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone

unique sound no one had heard up to that: extremely high volumes, feedback, vibrato

- playing with the influence of jazz, blues, funk

- set his guitar on fire and smashed it at the end

- bested The Who in burning shit up

Also launched careers of Janis Joplin and Otis Redding

Tho Who and The Grateful Dead also performed

Turned Otis Redding into a crossover hit in USA (had success in Europe by being their introduction into American soul music)

Pete Seeger

Left wing

wrote "if I had a hammer" for Peter Paul and Mary in 1962v

wrote "turn! Turn! turn!" a hit for the Byrds in 1962

recorded a million-selling recordings with the weavers

Singer, banjo player, and political activist who lead the Weavers in the late 1940s and 1950s, best known for helping popularize "We Shall Overcome," the anthem of the 1960s civil rights movement.

Psychedelic Rock / Bay Area

Tom Wilson

first African America A&R for a major label

roots in jazz

produced "the sound of silence" for Simon and Garfunkel putting drums on it

produced Bob Dylan's records: such as The Freewheeling Bob Dylan

Woodstock

spirit of coordination infused event

3 day rock concert in upstate N.Y. August 1969, exemplified the counterculture of the late 1960s, nearly 1/2M gather in a 600 acre field

A free music festival that attracted more than 400,000 young people to a farm in upstate New York in August 1969

Velvet Underground / Andy Warhol / Lou Reed

Velvet Underground

- formed by Lou reed

- now recognized as one of the most influential bands in rock

- provocative subject matter: sex, heroin, street life, drug dealing

- heavily distorted sound

Clive Davis

The Ramones

The first US punk band to receive major attention, and define the punk sound and image which they embodied:

rapid fire guitar bursts

very fast tempos

constant hats or cymbals

abrupt minimalist lyrics, rarely more then 8 lines

very simple song structures, with only a handful of chord changes

shouty vocals

on stage they were an extremely tight unit, necessary for the fast paced music

And like punk in general they had little mainstream success, not much in' the way of a hit album or single

However they were highly influential

Image:

leather motorcycle jackets, weathered jeans, sneakers

cool

Sly and The Family Stone

started by dj sly

racially integrated funk band, but with pop influence

more about band then singers

"Dance To The Music" first hit

Prog Rock and Associated Artists

rock seen as an art form

Emerson lake and palmer

pink floyd

outgrowth from psychedelic rock acts (such as Pink Floyd) who abandoned pop form for long form pieces

poetic lyrics

technology harnessed for new sounds

music approached condition of art

studio not stage is the focus of the art

Corporatization of Rock Acts in the 1970s

The Troubadour / Singer Songwriter Movement

Funk

Little Richards rhythmically tight take on r and b was an early precursor of funk that influenced James brown, The Godfather of funk

complex breakbeats, that would go on to be sampled in hip hop, drum and bass

syncopated guitar, emphases on the one

Sly and The Family Stone would expand upon funk in the early 1970s with records like theres a riot going one, which is a more muted, dusty, despondent take on funk, and then George Clinnton's parliament funkadelic bands would make funk into something much more colorful

Jazz Funk of Herbie Hancock on Headhunters, and the funk influence in Miles Davis On The Corner, which combined it with avant garde jazz

and synthesizer funk in the 1980s became very popular, Prince, Rick James

George Clinton / P Funk

-George Clinton was the frontman of a funk collective Parliament-Funkadelic

-brought in ideas of afro-futurism

-avant-gard, sci-fi

-used the moog for the synthesized bass ("Flashlight" was the first song to use the synth bass)

George Clintons bands: parliament and funkadelic

Funknadelic

Hendrix inspired guitar soloes

black funk rock

Parliament

recorded for Casablanca

less guitars in favor of horn and keyboard driven funk

Harvard Report (The)

Harvard Report titled "A Study Of The Soul Music Environment"

- clive davis commisions students to study soul music environnment

- advised Clive Davis to buy smaller labels like PIR (Philadelphia International Records)

-said that the record business leaned more towards LPs instead of singles

- how to market black music to white audience

early 1970s major labels not investing in black music, black music coming out of independent labels: stax and Motown

played a big role in major label adoption of black music and black artists

Heavy Metal

Tropes:

- electric guitar super distorted

- long complex solos, often high level of virtuosity

- wailing vocals

- The use of power chords

- loud drums, expanded drum set w cymbal and tom use

- hair, androgyny

- Celtic themes, satanic themes, mystical themes

early artists who made rock that would heavy metal include Jimi Hendrix, cream, the yardbirds

These new sounds were developed into heavy metal by artists such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath

in the late 1970s the genre developed into new wave British heavy metal, artists like Iron Maiden and Saxon infused speedy punk rock intensity into the genre

Led Zeppelin

huge distorted guitars and drums

songwriters Is complex with more movements between songs

played a big role in corporatization of rock

Stairway to Heaven

Whole Lotta Love