MUH-2019 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rick Wakeman, Country Music, Baby Boomers
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Focuses on yourself: because of this there is a huge divorce rate. Baby boomers are worried about their own finances than those of the country. Mainstream to have the anti war thoughts and hippie. Watergate cause political cynicism: nixon resignation, some say never recovered from this. Environment becomes more of an issue: taking care of the planet for future generation. Civil rights movement subsides: feminist and gay rights movement begins. Bands start using social issues in music: over arching ideas, more genres. Rejecting what came in the 60"s: cycle of history and rejection of previous sounds, nostalgia for elvis and berry. Marches and anger towards the government: politics and music flow in the same channel . Crocodile rock: just about having fun, no real depth, based around kids and non contact dancing, remembering when rock was young , 50"s style. Chuck berry is out of jail and is recording again.