Exam 3 Study Guide Chapter 10 Study Items Counterculture a subculture existing in opposition to and espousing values contrary to that of the dominant culture Nashville sound countrypolitan a newly sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music A fusion of country and cosmopolitan with Nashville being the new center Ray Charles a song writer singer and performer Was able to cross over to many different genres and became very successful throughout his career sampled a digital recording process wherein a sound source is recorded with a microphone converted into a stream of binary numbers that represent the profile of the sound quantized and stored in computer memory Polyrhythms the simultaneous sounding of rhythms in two or more contrasting meters Groove a term used to describe the channeled flow of swinging funky or fat rhythms urban folk music songs that were inspired by rural folk songs performed by urban intellectuals Greenwich Village New York City the center for Bohemian style music in the 1960s Newport Folk Festival Bob Dylan performed with an electric guitar and was booed off stage but later fans started following him with the new guitar 1 1 Bob Dylan in 1965 Moved from being the most distinctive songwriter among urban folk artists to being an epochal influence on American culture Summer of Love summer of 1967 Counterculture participants headed to San Francisco with flowers in their hair and listening to the Beatles Sgt Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band Sgt Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band An album by the Beatles released in the summer of 1967 It was as revolutionary a work of pop musical arts that had ever been made psychedelic rock refers to the music played by San Francisco bands which included folk rock blues hard rock Latin music and Indian classical music acid rock a form of psychedelic rock which is characterized by long instrumental solos few if any lyrics and musical improvisation Haight Ashbury San Francisco the center of the hippie movement hippie movement from 1960 1969 Teenagers moved to San Francisco to play psychedelic rock Experimented with drugs and was one with nature Monterey Pop Festival a three day concert event held June 16 to June 18 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey California Monterey was the first widely promoted and heavily attended rock festival attracting an estimated 55 000 total attendees with up to 90 000 people present at the event s peak at midnight on Sunday 2 2 Chapter 11 Study Items The Me decade a shift in values of young adults from communitarian politically engaged ideals of the 1960s counterculture toward more materialistic and conservative attitudes Cassette tapes and eight track cartridges introduced in the mid 1960s and became very popular during the 1970s By 1975 prerecorded tapes accounted for a third of record sales in America AOR album oriented rock FM stations focused on white males age 13 25 Featured hard rock bands such as Led Zeppelin and art rock bands like Pink Floyd Usually excluded black artists Top 40 playlist format AM stations were given playlists by consultants who made the lists and this resulted in diminished range of choice for AM listeners FM radio In the 1970s FM radio stations increased by a thousand and its popularity surpassed AM oldies radio stations played songs from the 50s and 60s Elvis scored more than 20 top 40 hits in the 70s and Chuck Berry got his first Number One pop record in 1972 High fidelity LP when listened to it put the listener into the middle of the music and allowed sound sources to move around Disco 1975 1980 An alternative to rock music Centralized on social dancing de emphasized the importance of the band and DJs brought back the single and expanded it to fill the time frame offered by twelve inch LP discs 3 3 Commercial mainstream music Pop Rock Elton John Paul McCartney Chicago Adult Contemporary Neil Diamond the Carpenters Sing songwriters Paul Simon Carole King James Taylor Soft Soul Country Pop Bubble Gum Disco the O Jays the Spinners Al Green Barry White John Denver Olivia Newton John Kenny Rogers the Jackson Five the Osmonds Donna Summer the Bee Gees the Village People Chic Chapter 12 Study Items Progressive country inspired by the honky tonk and rockabilly amalgam of Bakersfield county music In general progressive country performers wrote more intellectual and liberal songs than their counterparts Reggae a mixture of Caribbean folk music and American rhythm and blues Came from Jamaica and became popular after the movie the Harder They Come and its soundtrack came out Bob Marley the most effective ambassador of reggae music Became part of the band the Wailers His record Rastamon Vibration reached number 8 on Billboard s top 100 Survived a politically motivated assassination in 76 and died of cancer in 81 Popularity has grown since his death Jimmy Cliff star and main vocalist of the movie The Harder They Come 4 4 Mento a mixture of Jamaican folk songs church hymns sailor shanties and Cuban influences Rural Jamaican music Ska a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the 1960s Usually played at fast tempos and singing was influenced by R B and romantic crooning Biggest star was Don Drummond Rastafarian founded by Josiah Marcus Garvey a political leader who inspired a Back to Africa movement in America in the 1920s Started a culture that used special terminology used marijuana as a sacramental herb and wore dreadlocks Rock steady was slower in tempo than ska and reflected the influence of burru drumming Alton Ellis had the first big rock steady hit in 1966 Bugal mixed Latin styles of music with R B and jazz Salsa an intense passionate and rhythmic flow of well played music An aesthetic sensibility a genre classification and a marketing label Alternative rock a counterculture from disco music Lasted from 1975 1978 Included punk rock and new wave music Punk rock a back to basics rebellion against corporate rock music New wave music a more artistic and experimental way of reblling against corporations Funk music a back to basics for dancing Targeted mostly at black audiences it was the counterpart of disco It brought back dancing into mainstream pop Rap music characterized by the chain link between Africa and America Represented the urban black folks in run down communities Got its roots from tribal African music 5 5 Hip hop included distinctive styles of visual art graffiti dance breakdancing music dress and speech
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