AMCULT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Cbgb, Hippie, Motown
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70s generation: me generation increased narcissism, need to provide personal happiness. Alternative to rock music: focused on dancing, anti album-as-art, anti musician-as-star. Made possible because: inspiration of black pop music (motown, soul, funk), rise of social dancing, new technologies (synthesizers, mixers, etc), influence of hollywood music trends, recession of the 1970s so clubs couldn"t hire live acts. 70s night fever: punk pay attention to me. Alternative to rock music: focused on the audience, anti album-as-art, anti musician- as-star. Made possible because: inspiration of early black music (rock and roll), rejection of new technologies, fascination with hollywood and pop culture iconography, recession of. Haight to sf, bowery to nyc (crime, homelessness, drug use) Fillmore and avalon to hippie music, cbgbs to punk (meeting place of disaffected people) Relationships approached communism: bands and scene shared common bond hung in same places, knew each other, bands shared members. Rejection of mainstream rewards and status: no emphasis on being musically accomplished.
