American Popular Music

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American Popular Music

• Week 8, Monday
• Dr. Joseph Harchanko
• Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Guitar Heroes

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Bob Dylan

• Blowin in the wind
• How many roads must a man walk down
• Before you call him a man?
• Yes, n how many seas must a white dove sail
• Before she sleeps in the sand?
• Yes, n how many times must the cannon balls fly
• Before theyre forever banned?
• The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,
• The answer is blowin in the wind.

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Bob Dylan

• Dont Think Twice, Its All Right
• Still I wish there was somthin you would do or
  say
• To try and make me change my mind and stay.
• We never did too much talkin anyway,
• But dont think twice, its all right.

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Bob Dylan

• Like A Rolling Stone
• Folk rock
• Guitars, bass and drums
• Contradiction?
• Sound
• Dense, organ and piano
• Singing?
• Innovations
• 600
• Variable strophe (subordinate to poetic text)

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Bob Dylan

• Like a Rolling Stone
• Text
• Sardonic commentary on loss of privilege
• Intensity from density. Compare
• How many road must a man walk down
• Before you call him a man
• -with-
• Once upon a time you dressed so fine you threw
  the bums a dime in your prime
• Didnt you?

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Counterculture and Psychedelic Rock

• Vietnam
• Civil Rights
• Communitarian values
• Interest in eastern ideas (musical and
  non-musical)

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San Francisco Rock
Jefferson Airplane
Grateful Dead
Janis Joplin
first
communal
Hard blues
Pioneered transition From urban folk To folk rock
Know 2 songs Ripple Truckin
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Guitar Heros

• Inspired by
• Les Paul
• Muddy Waters
• Robert Johnson
• Equal importance of noise
• Distortion
• Wa-wa pedals
• Hendrix
• Purple Haze
• Clapton
• Cream

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The Beatles (again)

• Interest in recording studios
• St. Pepper
• Interest in Indian music and ideas
• Norwegian Woods
• Within You without You
• Interest in experimental sounds
• Revolution No.9