MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Family Values, Cool Jazz, Reverberation
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In that dominant culture, you were certainly straight, married, had two or three children, had a 9-5 job or dad did, mom mostly worked at home, this was the normative white culture. Veering off that normative path in any way was very costly to people, you were outcast from your social circle, there were consequences. Away from the whole corporate mentality of what a certain kind of success looks like, what goes with this, another big part of this picture is that the whole way in which the western world is run. Beat culture (the beats: 1950"s, beat = beatific, beatitude. You spend your whole life of non-interference and you cut along and make it your own way . what"s your road, man holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road . Just under the surface of the stable, normative life, most people are on the verge of just exploding.
