MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Electric Blues, Woody Guthrie, Folk Rock
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Week 8: the 60s part 3: the road to woodstock. Influenced by the beats (jack kerouac, allan ginsberg) group of artists and intellectuals working in the 1940s-50s, first people in the us to question authority such as the government. Jazz beat/beaten down/ beatitude (term taken from many eastern religions. The beats thought it was a higher state of consciousness that allowed you to see the truth of the world) A few of the baby boomers are asking uncomfortable questions, do they want to do what their parents did or are there other paths to be followed. We begin to see a split of the values of young people and the values of their parents. Were also people who were asking uncomfortable questions about authority and if you do you must be a communist. Showed up at the festival and last minute decided to do 3 songs with an electric blues band.
