MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Falsetto, Dreadlocks, Get Up, Stand Up
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This notion builds on the national youth dance culture which started in the 1950"s. 1970"s main stream music: funk, soul, motown pop, and fusions of these styles. Woodstock concert wattstax was organized by stax music label (same as southern soul) for the benefit of communities that were damaged in la. Started to join main stream through the course of the 1970"s. Funk has a complex groove (multilayered collection of riffs and rhythms played by different instruments and is the support structure for the vocals/lyrics). Funk is the ancestor of rap and hip hop it is also for disco. Papa was a rolling stone the temptations: melody is not normal, elements of psychdelic: wawa pedals on base and guitar. Groove is very complex: elements of motown pop: they sing a lot in harmony. They are witty, about life, reflect about poor children.