CMN 3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Grateful Dead, Lightning, Rock Scully
26 Feb 2016
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Rock music raised vexing questions about who counted as the. Though rock was full of escapist pleasures o! The music also sparked deep engagements with the dilemmas of mas-mediated public life. Rock made participants wonder through concerts, festivals, recordings, radio, tv, print publications and informal conversations. Rock music and its festivals became flash points in the counterculture"s stormy relationship with mass-mediation and mass consumerism. For the leaders of m4m movement, rock music brought issues of ownership to the fore. Their belief music and its accouterments should be free, or a contribution should be taken on profits from the music for the. The idea rock belonged as much to its audiences as it did to its makers and promoters. Seemed to create small cities with civic as well as commercial cultures. Festivals developed their own rules and codes of neighborly connection and commitment. Rock festivals even increasingly demanded the resources that any municipality would need: e. g. food, water, bathrooms, etc.
