MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Psychedelic Pop, Theremin, The Beach Boys
12 Nov 2018
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In this unit we will explore the music of the short-lived hippie culture whose raison d" tre in the late 1960s is to challenge the tenets of mainstream society through 1950s beat literature, eastern spirituality, and experimentation with drugs. The hippies begin to change the basic unit of recorded music from the song to the album and they come to prize the singer-songwriter, artistic approach to music over the brill building production-line model. Artists show an interest in blending elements of classical music, especially the modernist avant-garde techniques, with pop and rock music. We also see the rise of the virtuoso musician who is almost always a guitarist and almost always male. Studio rivalry: the beach boys vs. the beatles. Listening: good vibrations the beach boys, a day in the life the beatles. Activity 8. 1: listen to good vibrations by the beach boys, produced by brian wilson, and follow along in the listening guide.
