Lecture 14: The rise of rock in the 60s

Question 1

counterculture

Answer 1

• movement
• antiestablishment
• disillusionment free love, drugs, hippies
• complex sociopolitical climate - can you trust the people in charge? civil rights, feminism

Question 2

influences of counterculture on pop music

Answer 2

• disillusionment: urban folk, folk rock. honest themes become mainstream
• free love: little direct effect. pop music has always pushed sexual boundaries
• drugs: art work (colourful album covers), debatable musical influences

Question 3

sgt. pepper’s lonely hearts club band

Answer 3

• album cover is the emblem of counterculture
• every song is unique, some of indion instruments
• drugs
• concept album
• first album that demanded to be recognized as a complete album, no singles, some songs run into each other
• 1st album to have lyrics printed on the back
• imagined audience of a unified community. brotherly love turned into large concerts, turned into woodstock

Question 4

psychedelic rock

Answer 4

• folk rock + hard rock + blues + latin music + indian music

Question 5

jefferson airplane

Answer 5

• 1st nationally successful band out of san fran psychedelic rock era
• surreal lyrics instrumental improvisation