MUSIC103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Ronald Mourad Cohen, Brining, Subterranean Homesick Blues

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Music
• Course: MUSIC103
• Professor: Brian Fauteux

Document Summary

Oct. 18th - the 1960s: surf, urban folk, motown, and soul. California becomes the most populous state and important for economic production: makes sense why the music industry would want to set up here. From the sun-drenched expanses of the rapidly growing suburbs in southern california came surf music. Initially an instrumental genre fast drum beats, heavy guitar, etc: (cid:862)walk, do(cid:374)(cid:859)t u(cid:374)(cid:863) the ventures (1960/64, (cid:862)misirlou(cid:863) dick dale (1962) Came strongly to be associated with the beach boys. Multipart harmonies (cid:862)chu(cid:272)k berr(cid:455) riffs(cid:863) a(cid:374)d tre(cid:271)l(cid:455) guitar ti(cid:373)(cid:271)res. 1964: brian wilson stops touring: mental health taken a turn for the worse. Increased complexity in song-(cid:449)riti(cid:374)g (cid:894)(cid:1005)9(cid:1010)(cid:1009): beatles(cid:859) rubber soul: spends time at home song-writing wants to go in a more experimental direction, results in pet sounds. 2 musical revolutions in the 1950s: rock revolution, folk revolution. Long history before its resurgence in late 50s/early 60s: (cid:862)ur(cid:271)a(cid:374) folk e(cid:448)i(cid:448)al(cid:863)