MSC HST 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Appalachian Music, Joni Mitchell, Cool Jazz
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Northern urban people (middle-class) began becoming interested in appalachian folk music. This is still popular music, even if we call it folk music. I feel the earth move 1971 vocal style: motown, not singing in urban folk style: joni mitchell help me 1974. Soft jazz, complicated harmonies but with a lot less intimidating improvisation. Vocal approach: version of crooning, coming out of urban folk tradition. First wave feminism in us= polite; first wave of feminism in uk= rioting, serious. But second wave in us= more intense (60s, 70s) Third wave= representing voice of poor women/women of color as well; more focused on abstract notions of gender queer theory (break down binary notions of gender: alex dobkin view from a gay head (1973) Roughens sound up to make music more authentic. Mistakes in this song are meant to be that way^^ for that reason. Began as explicitly lesbian offshoot of singer-songwriter genre.
