ARTEDUC 1600 Lecture 4: Folk, Beach, and British Scenes
16 Feb 2019
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Text in parentheses () and italics are inserted to help you focus your thinking as you listen and read the slides. Folk music was an alternative to heavily commercialized music. Acoustic instruments were considered resistance to electric music of industry. Bob dylan and joan baez were important figures in the folk music. Early 20th century adademics did not consider ____folk music___ to be art (high art) Lomax recorded folk music as __social science research____ with over 300-pound phonograph and uncoated-aluminum disk recorder (1933) Image: on right: john lomax and uncle billy mccrea. Was appropriated as an ___alternative____ to the rapidly growing commercial music industry. Like earlier blues, folk musicians returned to ___acoustical____ instruments. Gerdes folk city (in _new york, greenwich village___) Rolling stone called it on of the top three music venues movement. Started as an italian restaurant called gerdes, 1960. Was controversial to the folk music community (why was it controversialbe?) Female folk musician as important as bob dylan.
