MUS 1240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Surf Music, Misirlou, The Beach Boys
17 Aug 2016
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Folk-focus on good music rather than sales, lots of covers of old songs a. Simple structures: originally popular during great depression, classical and folk 1st music to be popular as albums, rather than singles, for college audience rather than teens d. i. Put out 4 albums a year: peter, paul, and mary h. i. The hammer song -first written by pete seeger supporting organized labor h. ii. As kingston trio"s popularity waned, picked up chart spots: dave van ronk-blues side of folk i. i. James infirmary old english drinking song, example of song recycling i. ii. Blues splits off into country (acoustic) and electric i. iii. Van ronk helped others (baez, dylan) get their starts i. iv. Lots of versions of the same song j. 1st big star of folk"s more serious side j. ii. Babe i"m gonna leave you -covered by many artists (i. e. led zeppelin) j. iii. Like most folk artists, started out reworking old songs k. ii. Romantically linked with baez for about 4 years k. iii.
