RTA 905 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Merle Haggard, Grace Slick, Concept Album
17 May 2016
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Instrumentation: solo singer, acoustic guitar, sometimes harmonica or tambourine (much like country music) Thoughtful, poetic, metaphorical, intellectual lyrics intended to make you think. An urbanization and sophistication of traditional (country) folk music. Popular with college/university students who listened to rock and roll as teenie boppers. Lots of urban folk singer take on social activist positions. Note identifying timbre and dipthongs (what would be taken on one single vowel sound and divide it into two syllables?) Us troops in vietnam war (1965-1973: northern communists seen as global threats. 18-26 year old men drafted to fight in large numbers: particularly non-whites and lower class men. There are draft dodgers crossed border to canada: as a result, lots of profs at canadian universities are us draft dodgers. Hippies communal lifestyle (not nuclear family why should we follow the father? ), natural appearance (long hair, beards, jeans, tie-dye, Hippie, communal, counterculture lifestyle centered in haight-ashbury district of san fran.
