Week 11 - The Turbulent 60s

Question 1

Folk to folk rock

Answer 1

Personal stories link to current political situations Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger pioneered these sounds

• Bob Dylan was influenced by Woody Guthrie and the Beatles came to town with a new and inspiring sound with a 12 string guitar
• youthful optimism was able to get rid of the morning over JFK
• the byrds, The mamas and the papas, Joni Mitchell

Question 2

woody Guthrie

Answer 2

Born in Oklahoma wrote the classic song this land is your land which is actually a quite progressive message

Question 3

Pete Seeger

Answer 3

Stepson of avant-garde composer Ruth Crawford Seeger wrote many songs of peace such as where have all the flowers gone and turn turn turn

Question 4

The West Coast

Answer 4

Sun sand and suburban lifestyle epitomized by the Beach boys

• good vibrations Took six months to create a lot of studio time and money and features of the theremin
• Northern California and San Francisco the haight asbury section where hippiedom got started, Young people taking LSD, tie-dying shirts, where in peace signs, making music birthed the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and Jefferson airplane
• Jimi Hendrix is from Seattle - One of the first to still use an electric guitar incorporate distortion in feedback died one year after Woodstock