History 2134A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, Rock Music

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 2134A/B
• Professor: Geoff Stewart

Document Summary

The velvet underground: established by lou reed and john cale, lou reed struggled with sexuality, overbearing parents, middle class, conservative time. Received shock treatment for depression and anxiety brought on by homosexuality. John cale welsh viola player, experimented with many sounds in his music, including industrial sounds or electric noise: music was dark, extremely large, and deliberately anti-commercial. Looks at themes of sexual deviancy, violence, drug addition, alienation: heroin e(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g is slightl(cid:455) off f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the sta(cid:396)t of the so(cid:374)g, the (cid:448)oi(cid:272)e does(cid:374)"t (cid:395)uite (cid:373)at(cid:272)h up. The song gets very fast and speeds up, painting a very accurate picture of the euphoria of the drug. Then it crashes again, gets very slow again: the band did not become a commercial success, but did get a tremendous cult following. The stooges: ancestors of punk, leather jackets, motorbikes. Iggy pop ela(cid:271)o(cid:396)ate a(cid:374)d u(cid:374)e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)ted stage pe(cid:396)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)es. Musically quite simple and typical of rock and roll what punk was trying to restore.