MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Burglary, Voodoo Child (Slight Return), Youth International Party
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They were challenging the things that ppl took for granted artistically questioned the government, large corporations. Reviewed in the 1960s bc of the baby boomers. Moving away from the ideology of their parents growing gap bw kids and their parents - dreams, jobs, values, etc. 2 main (cid:873)centres(cid:874): greenwich (illage (cid:840)nyc(cid:841) & haight ashbury (cid:840)san francisco(cid:841) (cid:874)beatitude(cid:874) = higher state of consciousness, was a hallmark of the counterculture. Believes that you could achieve this higher consciousness by stimulating the brain. Anything that was thought to be good in the counterculture was (cid:873)psychedelic(cid:874) Counter culture developed a homology an underlying similarity bw things that appear very different on the surface. Poster art made their art hard to read, had to work to figure it out. Clothing - lots of colours, loose fit for movement. Drugs - ppl were quite naive about drug use, was a genuine attempt to find alternative way of being and thinking, access different parts of the brain.
