MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Yom Kippur War, Necrophilia, Thirty-Two-Bar Form
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1970s music was divided along colour lines: white artists dominate these genres. Rock becomes a symbol of male power and virility. Electronic sounds manipulation technology becomes more compact and a ordable. Allows for more experimentation with instruments and e ects. Objectives: discuss the broader historical context of 1970s america, discuss what is meant by the hippie aesthetic and identify genres in uenced by it. Identify the major rock genres of the 1970s: aurally identify elements of these genres in songs, visually identify elements of glam rock. Di cult economic time for most western nations: stock market crash of 73-74, high unemployment and high in ation, nixon government control on wages and prices, us recession. Us oil crisis of 1973: embargo on oil shipments to us from arab members, made in response to us supporting israel"s military during the yom kippur war. Monday, november 13, 2017: soil more than doubled in price, energy crisis continued.