Test 1 Flashcards
What is the form of Blues?
-12 bar blues, usually 1, 4, 5 chord form
What is the lyrical form of blue
-1 line, repeat, resolution
Who was Elvis’s manager
-Sam Phillips
Characterize Elivi’s Career
- started out writing covers
- transitiioned to RR, faster music,
- elvis the pevlis dancing made parents concerned
- tried to ccensor his dancing
Who was Wanda Jackson
- women artist in the 1950s
- had difficulty because she was a women
Who sung Hot Dog and what was it about
- Wanda Jackson
- women empowerment
- 12 bar blue
Who was Ritchie Valens
- anomaly full spanish song the was successful
- popular rift off Mexican folk song
- line, repeat, resolution
What were the payola hearings
- congressional hearings about bribing of RR music by the radio
- DJ Alan Freed arrested and fined and disgraced
What were contributions of RR?
- combined RB, gospal music
- teenage issues
- audience integration
- 12 bar blue importance
- electric guitar being used more often
- importance of stage performance
- blue collar
Who’s cover of mystery train did Elvis Cover?
-Junior Parker
Who sang ‘the twist’ and what was the significance?
- Chubby checker
- new dance craze that inspired many modern day dance crazes
- done by old and young people
what was the significance of the brill building?
- combining music from tin pan alley era, with rock, rhythm, and blues elements to create new popular music in the 50s
- associated with girl group music explosion
What was Aldon Music?
- part of the brill building era
- music publishing company that contracted writres such as neil diamond and phil spectre who would wrtie music for black female singers
who sang love me tomorrow?
- the shirrelles
- classical orchestra, less RB, AABA
Who was phil spectre?
- record producer
- pioneer the wall of sound
- controlled all spected of the producing
What was the wall of sound
- pioneed by phil spectre
- many different instruents layered over each other
- wrecking crew band made the music for many of the hits
who was carol kaye?
- guitarist who played on more pop hits than any artist
- played for the wrecking crew
who sings ‘uptown’?
- the crystals (1962)
- higher frequency of instruments
- class distinctions
who sings ‘be my baby’?
-the ronettes (1962)
what are brill buidlig contribution
- wall of sounds
- combination of tin pan alley, Rythem, rock, gospal ,
- inclusion of feamle artists and lyricists
What was hitsville USA?
- birthplace of motown music in detroit
- owned by Berry Gordon
- african american owned business during civil rights era
what was motown recipe for a hit?
- hook in the first few seconds of the song
- lyrical pronowns i.e me, I, you
- present tense lyrics
- smooth uran style
- simple 4/4 metre
what was motown artist development
- included choregography, vocal coaching, charm school
- made the artists more appealing to fans
- sexy but not vulgar
who sang ‘my girl’?
- the temptations
- bass hook in first few seconds
- smooth urban feel
who sang ‘you cant hurry love’?
- the supremes
- clear hook
- simple 4/4 meter
how did the beach boys promote surf culture?
- ssang about california, lifestyle surfing
- inspired by Brill building and chuck berry (guitar)
- ‘i get around’ and ‘surfing usa’, more sound layering, and guitar
What was the British invasion?
- mid sixties era, british bands invade US in popularity
- they are influenced by african american RR, RB
- occrued from culture sharing from WW2
- US sensored the music while Europe embraced it ealrier
Who was the beatles manager?
-Brian Epstein
what were the beatles first era liek
- blue collar
- hard working greesers
- cover band
what were the second era of the beatles
- recreated to be more fragile, innocent
- began writing songs
- covers dont make money, recordings do
What was beatles mani
- craze over the beatles in the mid sixties
- primarily a studie band
- changed how recording are, from a set of sinlges to a collaberative expression or topic
who were the beatles signed to
-EMI and Sir George Martin
who sang ‘hard days night’
- depicts beatles mania
- borrows from chuck berrys guitatr
- AABA brill building style
who sang ‘yesterday’
- beatles
- more serious, melotonic song
- appeals to adult issues and the older generations
who sang ‘ tomorrow never knows’
- beatles
- 1965, headphones released, beateles experimenting with drugs
- tries to emulate the emotions caused by the drugs with music
- depressed vocals, reveresed and sped up tapes of string insturments
- lyrics from ancient spirituality such as budisim
- sitar instrument
who sang a ‘a day in the life’
- beatles
- more progressive RR
- large orchestral background
- longer piano chord
who were the rolling stones
- began as a cover band like bealtes
- unlike beatles, embraced the dirty, RR culture right away
- was a tour band rather than a studio band
what is the most famous rolling stones song?
- can get no satisfaction
- blue collar reaction to capitalism
- relating to revolution, unsatisfied people
what is soul music
- rebranding of black RB music,
- not supposed to smooth, more raw
- strong connection to gospal
- criticzed by gospal fans because its no longer sacred music
- celebration of souther african american asthetics
who was ray charles
- bind soul musician
- fused RB and gospal
who sang ‘i got a women’
- ray charles
- unlike gospal, replaced sing and respond vocals with horns
- replaced sacred gospal with sex appeal RB
who sang ‘what id say’
- ray charles with gospal features
- tamberinec continues through the song
- sing and respond vocals
- singing in ecstacy
who was sam cook?
- popular gospal musician
- when shifted to soul, large backlash
- king of soul and popular during the civil rights era
who sang ‘you send me’
- sam cook (king of soul)
- AABA format (tin pan alley)
who sang ‘change gonna come’
- sam cook
- became anthem for civil rights protests in the fifties
- vague and talk to many different issues (timeless)
- triple meter from gospal
Who was james brown
- godfather of soul
- sings about pride and determinatino
- in favour of black power
- horns should behave like percussion
- base carries melody
who sings ‘papa got a brand new bag’
- james brown
- base plays meloy
- other instrument play rythem
who was artha franklin?
- began as a jazz artist in 1960 with Columbia records and later signs with Atlantic records
- in ‘respect’, has an afro as a representative of black power
- ‘respect’ follows music pitch going up and down as a gospal feature
how was folk music revived?
- not about making money but about the message
- during the great depression music was critical of inequality and capitalism
- typically white, college educated, liberal leaning
who sings “this land is your land”
- woodie Guthrie
- calmer, aucostic,
- focus is on the lyrics and the meaning of them
Who was bob dylan
- also known as Robert Zimmerman
- based his image of Woodie Guthrie
- must culturally significant singer of the 1960s
- when tries to go electirc with band at the newport fold festival people boo him
who sings ‘pawn in the game’
- bob dylan
- about the system/government
- how people acts out racism and segretation that is created by systematically
- very raw, guitar has different paces, almost catching up to the lyrics
who sings ‘like a rolling stone’
- bob dylan
- about the establishment and class differences and their attitudes
what are the contribution from folk music?
- not just for fun, can create change
- cultural and political messages
- can mobilize and organize
What is the counter culutre?
- late 60s/70s hippies
- fed up with all the bullshit
- didnt want to work
- activists and resist government
what was haight ashbury
- hippy neighborhood in Sanfransisco
- created a counterculture community
- many bands emerged out of the community such as Janice Joplin, jefferson airplane
who sings “white rabbit’?
- jefferson airplane
- static instruments give hippnotizing effect
- music video particually breaking for its use of projecting of melting cnadles giving acid effect
