MUSIC140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Newport Folk Festival, Cuban Missile Crisis, Haight-Ashbury
11 Aug 2015
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Leading voice in non violence movement with white/black culture. Lost of chords only 2 chords the entire time. Compared to paul mccartney, he has no melody. Information and quality of music comes from: privilege of rhythm. Thinking of entire band in terms of rhythm, thinks of the band as a west. Interlock groove based on african drum groups. Treats his band as a percussion group: importance community. Symbolism of circle, asks in the beginning of the song if i can get a beat : cyclical pleasure in repetition, no longer/thinking for aaba. Repeats same thing every two bars, move to bridge is subjective: open ended forms cyclical vs linear, hip hop comes from the repetitive beats, funk. Stop here with funk/soul move focus onto white counter culture; the hippies. Robert ________ - leading face of the folk revival in 1960s. The kingston trio / peter paul and mary produced a smoother version of folk.
