Unit 11 Flashcards
Late 1970s
Commercial rock
Punk and new wave in opposition of main stream rock
Early 1970’s
New style Psycadellic emerged
Punk and new wave
Highly rejected hippy bands
In favor to pre hippy rock
Fm radio stations
From late 1960 to AOR
Broadcasting rock music
Focusing on album charts
Fm radio changed from free form to AOR (album oriented rock)
AOR stations were heavily formatted with
Program directors
Commercial tendencies of am
Shorter more radio friend songs
Large selling albums draw corporate interest
500 000 records sold = gold
1000 000 = platinum
Rock in early 70s
Bands
Easy to distinguish Rolling Stones Kiss Wings Steve miller band Doobie brothers
New arrivals in the late 70s
Boston Foreigner Cheap trick Journey Van Halen
2 American bands prominent in revamping progressive rock in late 70s
Kansas
Styx
In late 1970s british bands reworking progressive rock
Alan parsons project
Electric light orchestra
Queen
Alan parsons project
Recording engineer for Beetles and Pink Floyd
Electric light orchestra
Formed from the band the move
Queen
Bohemian rhapsody
Inspired by Beatles
Thought he was gay, encouraged sexual stereotypes
Aids
Mid 70s
Singer song writer popular
Soul searching lyric
Explored harder rock styles
Example of singer song writer
Elton John Bob Dylan Paul Simon Billy Joel Jackson Browne Bob seggar Bruce Springsteen
Ways that bands adapted from older styles of rock
Compound aaba forms
Blending instrument techniques from multiple styles
Synthesis homogenization interpretation
In 1997 America rock fans began to hear about a movement in the uk called
Punk
Ex: sex pistols, clash
Punk had
Aggressive and dangerous images
US tones down this style
Punks most important roots in America
Detroit
Newyork
Punk reemerged UK from US as
New wave
Early influential bands of punk
Velvet underground
Iggy pop and the stooges
Mc 5
New York punk
Country blue grass blues
Patty smith group
First band to sign a record deal
Television
Ramones
Punk fashion
Radical clothing Ripped jeans leather jackets and safety pins Crazy hair colors and Mohawks "Do it yourself" esthetics/ mantra Recording promo album all done yourself
Rise of punk 74-77
Linked to economies recession
Punk represented this
Malcolm McClaren
Clothing store in London that sold punk clothing
Band members would shop there
Helped launch sex pistols
Sex pistols
Played gigs in 75
Signed in 76
7 single son uk top 40
Catalyst for punk in the uk
The next big thing (punk) 1977-1980
Punk had no presence on firmly restricted FM radio stations
Sex pistols toured the world
Rock magazines gave significant coverage to punk
Punk had a bad name, so they relabeled it as new wave
New wave (punk)
An artsier term for punk
Took away from aggressive image of punk
New waves answer to frustration was reflect on urban alienation
CBGB goes new wave
Ex. Blondie and Talking Heads
Blondie
One of the most successful bands from CBGB
Little resemblance to American punk
New wave in the American mainstream
Cars
Tom petty
Devo
B 52s
-they didn’t arise from CBGB
Cars
Was the first new wave band to break into FM radio rock playlist
Most british punk bands dominating charts in England
Never made an impact in the us
British new wavers in America
Police and Elvis Costello (made US top 40)
New wave was fascinated with
Earlier music styles
Historical events that impacted the music industry in the 80s
Regan marked a new conservative attitude in the US
Growth of AIDS epidemic
MTV was launched creating competition with FM radios
AM radio emerged
TV shows (Crosby show for race and the Simpsons for American life)
Fell into deep recession in the 80s
Baby boomers and job demands
Music industry decided to take in only the people with big names
1980-1990
Neither punk or disco were important in pop music mainstream
MTV challenged FM radio as the most important
Heavy metal and rap emerged at the end of the decade
Rock and new wave still existed
Punk fueled hardcore and indie rock
Dance music of the 1980s
MJ
Madonna
Michael Jackson ❤️
His albums thriller contained 7 top 10 singles
Best selling album in the history of music (100 000 000 000 were sold)
“King of pop”
Madonna
Former dancer
She didn’t write or produce many of her early hits
One of the most important figures in pop music
Sex object to question gender norms
Prince
Developed image as sexually charged
Pop and funk
Janet Jackson
Dancing was as important as singing for her
