MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Haight-Ashbury, Port Arthur, Texas, Big Mama Thornton
2 Mar 2015
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Beat culture (the beats: 1950"s, beat = beatific or beatitude, writers, poets, etc. Nuclear family (mom, dad, and 3 kids), monogamy (free love now!: traditional religious values. Young people began to be interested in non-western spiritual practices (eastern philosophy buddhism, yoga: values of industrialized west, looking to non-western, non-industrialized countries for new models. Envying other cultures that don"t have the same kind of technologies. Sudden fascination with indigenous culture: cultural relativism. Psychiatry how is this telling us to live our lives in a normative way: expansion of mind through drugs. Timothy leary (harvard professor) experimentation with lsd: gave lectures about how great it is to do acid and expand your mind, he became a poster boy for big university prof who encourages drugs. Experiencing a different kind of consciousness (not just to get high) Important because: this is when pop music starts to become. Serious: part of the psychedelic experience is captured in this psychedelic rock, somebody to love .
