MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Jackson 5, Barbra Streisand, Janis Joplin
27 Mar 2019
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The 1970s, rock, disco, punk, funk, and hip hop. Cultural landscape: optimism of the 1960s gives way to criticism, assassinations of john f. kennedy, robert kennedy and mlk, rock music vacuum, jimi hendrix, janis joplin, jim morrison, beatles breakup 1970-71. Rock comes of age: rock becomes pervasive in the music industry, the audience for rock in one of its many forms grows, this is manifested in various ways, arena rock and album-centred rock. Reasons for the rise of disco: existing interest in black music (motown, soul, funk, movie: saturday night fever 1977, kicked off the disco fad. Increased interest in social dancing among middle class: new technology: synthesisers, drum machines, synchronized turntables, for clubs, dj is cheaper than live music, upward mobility aspirations, glamorous dressing after rock"s jeans and t-shirt. Disco"s musical features: pounding beat, heavier than what was used to at the time, medium-fast tempo, straightforward form (verse-chorus) and lyrics/subject, limited harmonic vocabulary, bad girls, donna summer 1979.
