Modern Popular Music MUH2019 Sec 01 October 3 2011 Monday Quick Review Stax records was based in Memphis Differences between Stax and Motown Motown was VERY selective very carefully chose their atists Stax was biracial and Motown solely composed ofAfrican Americans Read the Aretha Franklin article in book Folk Music Revival Woody Guthrie and others acoustic Bob Dylan close relationship with Guthrie The Urban Folk Revival Baby boomers now reaching college age becoming politically aware Centered in Greenwich Village in New York City Based upon older folk music of Woody Guthrie Pete Seeger and the Weavers Stresses acoustic instruments and songs that anyone can sing Bob Dylan b 1941 Born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth MN 1961 Moved to New York City to perform and visit Woody Guthrie Regularly performed in Greenwich Village and got a record deal in 1962 Song for Woody 1962 Dylan s second album contained almost all orginial songs Protest Songs songs associated with movements for social change and current events Blowin in the Wind Masters of War and Oxford Town Dylan gains greater recognition after Peter Paul and Mary cover Blowin in the Wind Nicknamed the voice of a generation became an international star after Oxford Town 1963 song Protest song about James Meredith integrating the University of Mississippi On The Freewheelin Bob Dylan Masters of War 1963 song The Beatles Formed in Liverpool England 1957 Paul McCartney b 1942 joins John Lennon s 1940 1980 skiffle band The Quarrymen Skiffle genre combining American folk blues and country promoted the use of homemade instruments and was popular in Britain in the 1950s Lonnie Donnegan Rock Island Line 1954 George Harrison 1943 2001 joined their band the following year Bass player Stuart Sutcliffe drummer Pete Best added before an extended engagement in Hambug Germany in 1960 The Beatles return to England in 1961 but Stuart Sutcliffe stays in Hambug Brian Epstein begins to manage the Beatles Puts them in suits and markets them to record companies Liverpool sound known as Mersey Beat centered in The Cavern Club 1962 Pete Best is fired and Ringo Starr joins the band just before the Beatles explode January 1963 Release first album Please Please Me Hugely popular in Britain by late 1963 August 1963 Bob Dylan performs at the Civil Rights March on Washington MLK Jr gives his I Have a Dream Speech Last 1 Songs of 1963 in the United States not liked much now Bobby Vinton Blue Velvet Dale and Grace I m Leaving It Up to You The Singing Nun Dominique Modern Popular Music MUH2019 01 October 5 2011 Wednesday Beatles and Bob Dylan and Rolling Stones Early Musical Style of the Beatles Original songs attributed to Lennon McCartney Combined 50s American rock and roll R B and pop Catchy clever lyrics mostly about young love Tightly arranged vocal harmonies Paid attention to and were influenced by contemporaries The British Invasion The Rolling Stones Success of the Beatles leads to huge wave of British musicians coming to the United States None reach the success of The Beatles The Animals House of the Rising Sun 1964 Part of the British Blues revival Formed in 1962 by multi instrumentalist Brian Jones Along with Mick Jagger Keith Richards Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman Took their name from Muddy Waters song Rollin Stone 1963 1st single contains Chuck Berry s Come On and Muddy Waters I Wanna Be Loved Presented as raunchy rebellious alternative to The Beatles Mick Jagger and Keith Richards pushed to be a songwriting team like Lennon McCartney Satisfaction 1965 Other British blues revival group included The Who and The Yardbirds The Beatles meet Dylan 1965 Dylan Goes Electric August 1964 Bob Dylan visits the Beatles in NYC Dylan introduces them to marijuana convinces them to write more personal and serious lyrics Beatles repopularize electric rock sound Encourages Dylan to go electric The Byrds inspired by the Beatles record an electric cover of Dylan s Mr Tambourine Man Dylan begins to tire of being the voice of a generation Begins using electric instruments on Bringing It All Back Home Plays electric set at Newport Folk Festival and is booed Continues electric instrumentation on Highway 61 revisited Modern Popular Music MUH2019 01 October 7 2011 Friday Review NEWPORT FOLK FEST where Dylan went electric THE BEATLES The Beatles Musical Experimentation Begins incorporating classical instruments and influences Use experiments techniques in the studio George Martin has more creative input as producer Add experimental instruments song forms and lyrical content The Beatles Help 1965 album Sountrack to Help Film Side A is in film Side B is additional tracks Fifth full album Advances in songwriting Yesterday sung by Paul alone with strong Quartet One of most covered songs of all time Act Naturally sung by Ringo Country cover song The Beatles Rubber Soul 1965 album Expands conventional rock and roll sound Cohesive album instead of set of singles Songs feature a darker look at relationships Norwegian Wood This Bird Has Flown first rock song to use the sitar instrument In My Life Personal song about Lennon s childhood Run for Your Life Threat to the singer s unnamed girlfriend The Beach Boys Pet Sounds 1966 album Brian Wilson 1964 Stops touring with Beach Boys after nervous breakdown Focused solely on songwriting and studio production Inspired to write Pet Sounds after hearing the U S version of Rubber Soul Concept album an album in which all the songs contribute to a single overall theme or narrative One of the most influential albums of all time Although a Beach Boys release Pet Sounds was essentially a Brian Wilson project recorded with the Wrecking Crew and inspired by Spector s Wall of Sound Elaborate song arrangements with unconventional instruments Wouldn t it be Nice Sloop John B God Only Knows Good Vibrations 1966 Hit single recorded but not released with Pet Sounds The Beatles Revolver 1966 album Expanded studio innovations complexity made many songs impossible to perform on stage One of the first psychedelic albums Eleanor Rigby Poetic lyrics classical instrumentation and sng form Tomorrow Never Knows Lyrics from a book by LSD guru Timothy Leary Tape loops irregular drum pattern Indian inspired drone The Beatle s scandals and challenges 1966 John Lennon s More popular than Jesus comment No public reaction in UK but caused huge uproar in US with protests album burnings threats Modern Popular Music MUH2019 Storhoff October 10 2011 Monday Exam 1 Beatles Indian LSD
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