MUSC 143 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Newport Folk Festival, Medgar Evers, John Mayall
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Medgar evers allusion-dies because he was not admitted to a white hospital. Performed at newport folk festival several times. Second time=crowd upset by only three sets, which were rock instead of folk. Fans were heavily invested in his music, resulted in anger and rejection of his rock instrumentation. Switched over due to the popularity of rock and the possibility to mesh electric music with folk protest lyrics: rolling stones, beatles, john mayall blues breakers w/eric clapton. 19(cid:1010)(cid:1009): the beatles realize they (cid:272)a(cid:374) go past disposa(cid:271)le pop (cid:449)ith the so(cid:374)g (cid:862)you"(cid:448)e got to hide your lo(cid:448)e a(cid:449)ay(cid:863) fro(cid:373) the al(cid:271)u(cid:373) help. The byrds adopt the 12 string electric guitar i(cid:374) mr. ta(cid:373)(cid:271)ouri(cid:374)e ma(cid:374) fro(cid:373) the beatles a hard day"s. Bob dylan can be traced back to johnny cash. What can music mean: what music means to different people/groups.
