MUSI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Prior Restraint, List Of Greyhawk Deities, Heterosexuality
MUSI 1002
Issues in Popular Music
May 29th, 2018
(Previous lecture)
1970s
• Nature of rock and roll changes, becomes incredibly corporate
• Many bands emerge as a way of rebellion against the corporate
• Pub rock: emerges in England around 1971/72
o Stripped back style of rock and roll
o Eggs Over Easy, Ducks Deluxe, Brinsley Schwartz, The 101ers, Dr. Feelgood
• Glam rock
• Combination of pub and glam rock results in British Punk rock
o Against blandness and corporate of music
• Musicians in rock bands have conservatory level training
• London: large Caribbean community, reggae music influence
• Return to singles, small labels
• Sex Pistols: music was toxic to the media, banned from radio
1980s and 1990s
• Punk is sometime seen as a watershed
o Desire for independence and the return of the 3 minute song, return to early rock values
(simple, DIY, lack of pretension)
o Attempt to reintegrate pop and rock forms (which increasingly split during the 70s)
• Further generic fragmentation
o Britain: punk and reggae/ska, two tone movement (The Specials, English Beat)
o New Romantic: new pop form that grew out of punk (Duran Duran, Adam and the Ants)
• Sounds like music from Germany mashed with disco, with punk influences
o New rock bands (U2)
o 2nd wave heavy metal (Judas Priest, Iron Maiden)
• North America: Hip Hop emerges in late 70s (Sugar Hill Gang, Grand Master Flash and the Furious
Five)
• First Hip Hop hit: Sugar Hill Gang, Rapper's Delight
• MTV emerges in the 80s,
o American artists were behind British artists who used videos as advertisement
o New focus on the visual
o Greater fluidity between subgenres (Hip Hop/Metal)
o Michael Jackson/Van Halen, Run-DCM/Aerosmith
• Resurgence of pop metal in the 80s
o Very cheap to make music videos
o Ex. Van Halen, Jump
• Madchester/Acid House/Rave scene: shaped by Detroit and Chicago electronic music
o Influenced 90's EDM scene
• Grunge: mainstreaming of elements of punk and metal, major development in the early mid 90s
(Nirvana and Pearl Jam)
• Britpop: parallel development to Grunge; arty punk, glam, 60s British rock (Blur, Pulp, Oasis)
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