MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bessie Smith, Golden Gate Park, Surrealistic Pillow

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Music
• Course: MUSC 2150
• Professor: Shannon Carter

Document Summary

Short-lived hippie culture in late 60s challenged mainstream society via literature, eastern spirituality, experimentaion with drugs. Prized albums over songs, singer-songwriters, arisic approach over brill building producion, blending elements of classical music (especially modernist avant-garde) with pop & rock. Rise of virtuoso musician = almost always a guitarist & almost always male inluence of jazz on rock (prizes technical and expressive excellence of its musicians) Studio rivalry: the beach boys vs. the beatles. Summer of love = june august 1967. Scot mckenzie"s san francisco (be sure to wear flowers in your hair) played on radios. Pepper"s lonely hearts club band, perhaps the most important album in history of rock music (was a concept album , a complete arisic producion) Began in regional underground scenes of london & san francisco in 50s, established by end of 1965. Psychedelic movement was concerned with exploring new ways of experiencing the world. Suspicious of american insituions (government, schools, churches, big business, military, police)