MUSC 2150 Study Guide - Final Guide: Newport Folk Festival, Woody Guthrie, Beat Music
27 Oct 2015
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Took the easy strumming-and-singing texture of folk and added electric guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards: garage bands formed across america, emulating the guitar-dominated sounds of the beatles and stones. Dylan, made him the most emulated folksinger of this period: accomplished songwriter, dylan initially followed his idol woody guthrie by reworking familiar music with new lyrics that chronicled social injustice. Blowin in the wind addressed civil war and masters of war challenged the. 1965 newport folk festival: dylan performed 3 electric numbers, causing the crowd to heckle the mater of ceremonies for an encore where dylan then performed two acoustic versions. 12 and 35 drew on the double meaning of the word stoned: both criticism and recreational drug use, changed the mainstream approach to rock by infusing his lyrical and musical sophistication and wit. The byrds and the jingle-jangle of the electric twelve-string guitar.
