MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Syd Barrett, Guitar Solo, Progressive Rock
2 Mar 2015
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Progressive rock cont"d pink floyd: british progressive rock bands like yes were interested in classical music, especially formal structure in classical music and a kind of virtuosity that would, they hoped, raise the class status of rock music. They wanted it to become part of high culture and they wanted people who are part of high culture to appreciate rock. Some of their concept albums were really critical of capitalism and they did this through a protagonist. Using an individual that is really unhappy with modern culture. Their albums were really dark and heavy: they are put in the category of progressive rock because the sound of the music really engaged with new kinds of technology. They use synthesizers which were pretty new in the 1970s, and you also get a lot of talking and non-musical songs (such as the alarm clock in sgt.
