MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Hank Ballard, Mashed Potato, American Bandstand
27 Mar 2019
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The 1960s: american pop, the british invasion, urban folk, soul, and rock. Instruments are doubled, played in unison: large amount of echo is applied, vocals are pushed up front , thick texture often includes strings, be my baby, the ronnettes (1963) The brill building: similar to tin pan alley, described as rock n" roll"s vertical tpa (one building, not a whole stree) You can"t hurry love, the supremes (1966: instrumentation: tambourine. Bass, brass, lead female vocal, harmony backing vocals, drums, electric guitar, keyboard: form: complicated, time: backbeat (beat on 2 and 4, texture: homophony, thick throughout, briefly drops at 2:00, timbre: echo, intimate vocals. In britain: cunard yanks : merchant ships" sailors imported us music and fashion of us, circumvented the bbc"s control on musical culture for liverpudlians. In us: 1964 aggressively marketed in us with fame in britain and europe already established. Tonally: only 2 chords, minor chord is tonic (vocals harmonize in b chorus)
