MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Psychedelic Pop, Beat Generation, The Beach Boys
1 Apr 2018
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Short lived hippie culture in the late 1960s. Challenged the tenets of mainstream society through 50s beat literature, eastern spirituality, and drug experimentation. Prefer the singer-songwriter, artistic approach to music over large production-lines. Blending elements of classical music and pop and rock music. Rise of the virtuoso musician (almost always a guitarist who is male) Objectives: discuss a variety of electronic e ects and aurally distinguish them in a song. Identify elements of the modernist avant-garde as well as more traditional art music ( classical music) in psychedelic pop, rock, and blues and aurally distinguish them in a song. Studio rivalry: the beach boys vs. the beatles. Good vibrations by the beach boys: example of psychedelic pop, first half of song: contrasting verse-chorus form. After this: a series of three sections begin. Does not t in neatly to any conventional pop formal pattern: 4/4 time signature. : organ, guitar, bass, drums woodwinds, cellos, slide theremin, bass harmonica,
