AMS 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Iran Hostage Crisis, Eric Kupper
20 Mar 2018
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Election of conservative leaders, ronald reagan and margaret thatcher. Musical shift, away from sounds celebrating group identity. Punk: offers a backlash, as it attacks mainstream rock. Disco: suffers a backlash, for celebrating gay identity. Out of velvet underground and others, an underground sound, grows in nyc club. Gbgb; groups like the ramones, blondie, television, and talking heads. Music gets faster, shorter, more sarcastic, embraces 1950s rock and roll delinquency, less overt connection to african american derived blues and funk sounds. British punk takes american attitude up a notch. If folk was anti-commercial but communal, punk is aggressively anti-social. Sex pistols, anarchy in the uk starts with johnny rotten singing i am an anarchisti wanna destroy passers-by .
