MUSIC103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Carole King, Arpeggio, Clapping
8 Sep 2016
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The early 1970s: singer songwriters, funk, and heavy metal. Singer-songwriters: autobiography in music, carole king. Funk: george clinton and influence on the genre. Represented an attempt to apply lyric poetry to semi-autobiographical themes. High number of women involved in the genre. Until the singer-songwriters, the words soft and rock would rarely appear in the same sentence. At a time when rock was loud and aggressive, soft rock represented the other side of the equation. Genre emerges from the end of the folk revival. Songs not based on riffs, but rather accompaniment patterns: rhythmic arpeggio (notes in a chord played in sequence) known as. James taylor - you"ve got a friend o. After her divorce with gerry goffin, she moved to the west coast. First album, writer(1970) struggled, though tapestry(1971), broke all existing sales records. Neither consumed by politics nor driven to share intimate details of private life.
