MUSIC140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cuban Missile Crisis, Newport Folk Festival, Hells Angels

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Music
• Course: MUSIC140
• Professor: Simon Wood

Document Summary

Since they are going to university, their music taste shifts since their life has shifted. They liked folk music because it was serious; it dealt with issues, deep meanings. Use of numbers - like the bible old testament(tragedy counts) Russia had a lot of nukes. (hard rain is gonna fall) Mutually assured destruction(mad) when soviet union and us start bombing each other. Cuban missile crisis(1962: newport folk festival(1965) People booed and called him a traitor. Influence on the development of the counter culture. Dylan said to beatles that their music is great but the words don"t mean anything and it really touched lennon. Dylan saw that beatles had so many screaming fans so he decided to go to electric too: the counter culture is based on the us west coast- san fran. University students started to question about life and their purpose. Rejection of materialism achieving enlightenment: hippies. Jamming(collective improvisation: coloured lights, truckin" the grateful dead (1970)