MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nick Mason, Concept Album, Early Music
10 Dec 2014
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Ambition / failed ambition / lack of ambition. Money / negative way it shapes values in our culture. Positioned himself as coming out of and having an allegiance to working class culture. Viewed as an advocate and can understand sympathetically about working class people o. Glam rock: kiss, push limits of what had ever been seen of pop music and theatrical aspects, grows out of music moving into bigger venues; arenas and stadiums where musicians have to make themselves larger than life. Men doing this in the mainstream was pretty unusual for this time: persona was known as alice cooper, but he was also the name of the band. Stage shows had boa constrictors and live chickens and crazy elements: the new york dolls, predating poison by about a decade and they look fairly similar, mainly male artists coming out of white culture, susie quattro. Bent gender roles a bit, she played electric guitar.
