MUSIC140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cuban Missile Crisis, Woody Guthrie, House Un-American Activities Committee
11 Aug 2015
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Origins of folk music: they spoke strongly to unions; left wing. The weavers: pete seeger: song: this land is your land (woody guthrie, 1940, performances were good b/c singers were good, harmonized, they were modest, and. Lyric content didn"t try to bring the attention, settle presentation: folk music was successful from late 1940s-1953, black listed in 1953 because of left-wing connection. Huac (house un-american activities committee) and mccarthyism (1947-1956: soviet union past states in nuclear weapons, states become paranoid about communist countries early. Late 1950"s/early 60"s baby boom reaches college. 1963- hard rain"s a gonna fall: nuclear missles/black rain states put missiles on turkey, turkey got cheesed, puts missiles in jamaica. (mad- mutually assured destruction, cuban missile crisis october 1962. Lyrics style its all done in metaphor, analogies. He uses numbers often, referred to old testament. Technological changes: magnetophon: a function real-real tape recorder and was demonstrated to bing crosby.
