Test 2 Flashcards
What was studio 54?
- popular discotech where celebritites went to party
- michael jackson, Andy Warhol would go
- busted for tax evasion
What was the disco demoltion?
- was a promotion to bring people to the white sox game in 1979
- was seen a homophobic racist rally
- some attriubute to leading to the death of disco
Why did people hate disco?
-gay culture was seen a one that trasnimitted aids
What is raggae music?
- world music, not western
- stemmed from kingston jamaica, shanty towns
- combination of Caribbean folk music and RB
- includes riddiums which are interlocking rythmic patterns
what are punk rock characteristics?
- rejected rock music, boring solos, bloated personalities
- philosphoy, somthing you lived
- fashionable,
- grim outlook on the future, disenfranchised youth
- repetitive rythems, stripped down textures
- accespbile musical language
who was the producer of velvit underground?
-andy warhol
who managed the sex pistols?
sid vicous, johny rotten
what was glam rock?
-more about the style and fashrion rather than the music
-more popular in europe
-david bowie poplar in the US
-introudeced bisexuality and gay culuture into rock although Bowie not gay
-style has characteristics of both male and female
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whats is hard rock
- era of rock gods (jimmy page, hendrix)
- loud vocals
- electric guritar, distortion
- era of arena rock
- albums being played on FM radio
what was soul train
-popular tv show that showcased black soul music
-centered around dancing
-don cornelius was the host and producer
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what was the monterary pop festival?
-alost of popular artists performed there from the counter culture
why caused the decline of the counter culture
- many deaths of prominent musiceians to drugs and other cirumstance
- weather undergound
- assasinaiton of jfk, mlk etc
- ken state shootings where students were killed protesting cambodia bombing
who were 70s song writers and how do you characterize them?
- music about realtionships, personal, confessional
- more like poetry
- more female participants
- new techonology makes you feel more inclusive
- lyrics being to be printed and included in the album sleeves
what is disco music ?
- combines funk and latin linfluences
- cathcy base lines
- 4 on the floor rythem
- used of brass, stringgs, percussion
- layering of sounds and instruments that lead to accretion
what is laurel canyon?
- area is california that where a lot of songwrites in the 70s moved
- often collaborated with each other
