ANT322H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hippie, Virtual Reality, The Ed Sullivan Show (Radio Program)
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Grease, similar themes; opposing gangs clash and dish it out with car: students have become disobedient in school, blackboard world has become a jungle; teenagers as savages . Largely because of television becoming more prominent and seeing horrific images of the war on tv: rebels with a cause. Anti-war movements: the beatles, the counterculture movement. Elvis era went for the album (collection of songs that collectively become a hit instead of the single hit); didn"t work out all that well but the beatles changed that. Beatles released albums with thematic unity; told a story with an album. Pepper"s lonely hearts club band [1967: first conceptual album; killed the single and made the album . Music became the voice of counter culture movement. Love, sex, rock and roll had drugs added to it; drugs became a thing. Listening to music while tripping was a fundamental experience.
