Modern Popular Music Final Study Guide 70 s Rock Classic Rock 1960 s 1970 s The Altamont Speedway Free Festival 1969 o The destruction of the 1960s 1970 s Radio o The use of genres Pop Rock Adult Contemporary Singer Songwriter Soft soul Country pop Bubble gum Disco Etc o Oldies Radio 1950s and early 1960s 1970s Classic Rock Music o Success of festivals Newport Monterey Woodstock o Tailored performances to be live o The classic album Hey Hey What Can I Do Led Zeppelin o Blues and folk rock led to heavy metal o Guitarist Jimmy Page o Drummer John Bonham o Lead Vocals Robert Plant o Bassist John Paul Jones o Led Zeppelin Dazed and Confused Glam and Progressive Rock 1970 s Glam Rock o Aesthetics Androgyny Costumes makeup cross dressing theatricality o Music Classic 70 s rock style Gender bending sounds o Challenged sexuality and gender roles o David Bowie Starman The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Performing the character of Ziggy Stardust Concept Album Gender bending space fame Focused on character over music Theatrical tour o Jobriath I maman Openly gay and flaunted sexuality Made people recognise the existence of homosexuality Very short lived career o Mott the Hoople All the Young Dudes Progressive Rock o Complexity in rock music Highly skilled technically complex Form Instrumentation Electronic keyboards synthesizers sound effects Length Themes Concept albums Theatrical live and sonic o Pink Floyd The Great Gig in the Sky Dark Side of the Moon Sound effects psychedelic blues jazz Dark Side of the Rainbow playing the Dark Side of the Moon album to the movie The Wizard of Oz o Rush Working Man Recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Rush Anthem Rush YYZ Heavy Metal Late 1960 s to 1970 s New Wave of British Heavy Metal History of Heavy Metal o Classical Music technically difficult o Blue Cheer o Presented very masculine yet the clothing is very stereotypically gay or feminine performers often wear makeup Groupies o Started following around bands o o Pamela Des Barres Sex drugs and Rock n Roll Shock Rock gave you Glam Metal o Twisted Sister Motley Crue Poison Cinderella Religion Satanism o Venom o Very angry music often about anti christian ideals Thrash Metal o Metallica Black Metal o Popularized in Norway o Black Metal bands from Norway actually starting burning down hundred year old churches across Europe Black Sabbath War Pigs o Black Sabbath Paranoid o Early Black Sabbath the first metal band Notice the psychedelic visual aesthetic and 70s clothes it is 1970 Ozzy Osbourne had such a beautiful and clear voice perfect for early metal Judas Priest The Hellion and Electric Eye o The epic guitar solo at the beginning is The Hellion The song that follows is Electric Eye Notice their elaborate stage and Rob Halford s known as the metal God stage presence and clothing This heavy metal aesthetic comes from gay queer S M clubs Irony Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast o This song deals with the typical themes of death hell religion and the devil Notice Bruce Dickinson s operatic voice Many metal fans and metal scholars debate over who had the better voice Bruce Dickinson or Rob Halford from Judas Priest Metallica Seek and Destroy o Early Metallica with their original bassist Cliff Burton An example of thrash speed metal Disco 1975 to 1980 o Disco Era 1975 1980 Derives from the word discotheque 60 s dance crazes were done at discotheques o Social dance couple dancing The Hustle line dancing o Against album oriented rock LP Rock groups o Less importance of the band More importance on the producers DJs and singers o Importance of the single lengthy recording for use at the disco The Rise of Disco o Began in the Latino Black and Gay NYC communities o Black popular music o Social Dancing o Technology Early turn table techniques synthesizers drum machines turntables o 1970 s Economic Recession Cheap to hire DJs over a full band o Disco Bandwagon The Rolling Stones Miss You Diana Ross James Brown Rod Stewart o Hollywood Saturday Night Fever 1977 o Rejected by hard rock punk heavy metal bands o Rejection of gay culture homophobia Sound of Disco o An established beat o Steady medium fast tempo o Repetitive song forms o Straightforward themes and lyrics Disco the Place o Clubs with non stop music Strict dress code Hedonistic Shrine ultra sensory experience heavy bass pulse flashing lights mirrors everywhere dance floor bodies o Urban communities of color and gay Black Latino Tradition of dancing on the weekends o Gay Community New York San Francisco o Importance of the Club 1970 s economic recession upward mobility working class and middle class access to glamour and leisure escapism o Studio 54 Hottest club of the time o Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Travolta Artists o The Bee Gees Stayin Alive Australian group Reinvented through disco Vocal harmonies Strong repetitive rhythms Disco fans and mainstream This song can save lives You perform CPR to the beat o Donna Summer I Feel Love Powerful voice sultry and whisper like voice Producer Giorgio Moroder Disco Dive Queen of Disco Gay community Rock n Roll Hall of Fame 2013 o The Village People YMCA Costumes of American masculinity cowboys cops Native Americans construction workers soldiers and leathermen Greenwich Village Simple novelty songs basic disco beat Queer interpretations Loaded with double entendre A top selling group in North America Very much a part of our current culture weddings dances sports events Disco Today Get Lucky Daft Punk o Punk and New Wave Mid 1970 s o DIY don t give a fuck fashion sound attitude o Associated with white male working class subculture o Rebellion against mainstream 70 s rock and disco Commercial music industry o Possible to make music authentic and not give a fuck o Criticize the industry that pays you o Authentic Commercial The Place of Punk The Sound of Punk o Mid 1970 s New York City Notice a trend o Underground subculture o Punk clubs house parties CBGBs CBGB OMFUG o Loud o Fast o Basic musical competency o Simple Pop I IV V harmonies o Garageband aesthetics and skills o Sonic representation of punk rock The History of Punk Proto Punk Bands o Los Saicos Salvaje Peru 1960 s Not well known o Death Rock n Roll Victim African American group Refused to change sound o The Stooges I Wanna Be Your Dog Iggy pop They re still performing today o The Ramones Sheena is a Punk Rocker Friends Not family despite stage names Middle class Queens tough 50 s biker gang image Catchy
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