MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Newport Folk Festival, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger
2 Mar 2015
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Folk music: more mature, anti rock and roll , anti-commercial, about sharing message, sharing music, gentler, more melancholy, guitar + voice, a lot of power. Primarily white college-educated left-leaning listeners and performers (university students: authenticity. Little production value: little done in studio. Simple visuals, no spectacle: no dancing, no special clothes outfits, pete seeger. The weavers: folk music quartet, laid groundwork for kingston trio and peter, paul, and mary. Where have all the flowers gone : wrote 3 verses, college student wrote 3 more to make it a never ending round song, collectivity. Musically (simple: can learn easily, popular in: Added powerful indigenous voice and perspective to folk scene. Stick with string on it into a bow shape: joan baez. On the banks of the ohio : from when she was in boston, murder ballad, could be real or fake. Truly authentic: no makeup or jewellery, no interest in money.
