HIST105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Get Down Tonight, Steve Rubel, Gladys Knight
11 Sep 2016
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History 105 disco the age of excess. The ultimate 70s band: the eagles: folk and country rock, the long run , broke up 1980, same with the police. The times they are still a-changing: the examples of bob born again dylan & the jeffersin. The excesses of the rock music lifestyle in the late 70s: the example of kiss and gene. Simmons: libertarian views had grown in the 70s, cynicism and distrust of authority were big, kiss concerts match all of this, huge stadium shows: large hydraulic stages, lighting, dry ice smoke machines, Fireworks, merchandizing, rise of capitalism in rock: outside disco kiss was one of the largest bands in 70s, sex, drugs were in excess . Disco: the dominant pop sound of the late 70s: disco would become a juggarnaught in its rise and strength, faced much criticism for its racial and and acceptance of gay issues. Gang life in south central l. a, 1950s-1960s: hard knock upbringing.
