MUSIC140 Lecture Notes - Pete Townshend, Jeff Beck, The Yardbirds
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The beatles show product/object orientation, like western culture music. Beatles could not achieve what they wanted live, ended up settling in the studio. The rolling stones are process oriented, focus on the moment, like used to be defined by african culture. The lines aren"t really divided by race any more. Eric clapton, jeff beck, jimmy page all members at different points. The new yardbirds (page and others, becomes led zeppelin) The mods - modernists, image as trendy and fashionable, thin, lots of dancing, amphetamines to keep them going, a side effect was stuttering, reference to it in my generation by stuttering. Art stuff, smashing guitar arguably symbolic of sanctifying the performance and the experience o o o o o o o o o. Development connected to the civil rights movement and the development of. Rejection of blues as the sound of the past, rural south, slavery. New sounds of urban - soul music.
