Its the 60s Man

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Its the 60s Man!
Gasconade County R-2 Schools
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What are we going to learn!
Folk Music
Monterey Pop Festival
Soul Music
Psychadelic Music
Protest Music
Southern Rock
Woodstock
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Why was America ready for change?
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Ask not what your country can do for you, but
what you can do for your country.
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4 Rock styles Pre 1964

• West Coast Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, the
  Righteous Brothers
• East Coast Girl Groups (Ronnettes and
  Shirelles)
• American Bandstand Popular Music hosted by Dick
  Clark
• Folk Rock (urban with Woody Guthrie, Pete
  Seeger, Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan
  Baez, Crosby, stills Nash and Young)

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Whats Goin On?

• Civil Rights unrest
• College Campus unrest
• Cuban missile crisis
• More frequent recreational drug use
• Migrations from Urban to Rural centers

• Election of JFK and the introduction of Camelot

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Abbey LaneBritish Invasion 1964

• Urban London Sound
• The long journey from beginning to the Beatles
  that we know now.
• Songs
• Accomplishments

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The British INVASION
The Who

The Kinks
The Rolling Stones
The Animals
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Motown

• Barry Gordy Jr.
• Supremes
• Smokey Robinson
• Stevie Wonder
• Jackson 5
• Temptations
• Four Tops

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Soul Music

• Was born due to the disillusionment of the 60s
  society
• Disillusionment of WHAT???? The establishment,
  MAN!
• Sam Cookes song A Change is Going to Come
• Curtis Mayfields song People Get Ready

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Psychedelic Bands

• The Doors
• The Grateful Dead
• The Mamas and the Papas
• Jefferson Airplane
• Jimi Hendrix
• Janis Joplin

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The Summer of Love1966
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Woodstock
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2nd British InvasionLate 1960s

• Cream
• Sgt Pepper project by the Beatles
• Led Zeppelin

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Where does it end?

• Rock takes on a harder edge in the 70s
• Many artists meet an early and usually
  self-inflicted death Jimi, Janis and Jim
• Drugs/Violence become associated with the rock
  scene

• Pop Charts still do not have a lot of rock for
  the top 10 songs
• Breakup of big named bands Beatles, Cream

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