Modern Popular Music Final Study Guide 70 s Rock Classic Rock 1960 s 1970 s The destruction of the 1960s The Altamont Speedway Free Festival 1969 1970 s Radio Pop Rock Adult Contemporary Singer Songwriter Soft soul Country pop Bubble gum Disco Etc The use of genres Oldies Radio 1950s and early 1960s Success of festivals Newport Monterey Woodstock Tailored performances to be live The classic album 1970s Classic Rock Music Hey Hey What Can I Do Led Zeppelin Blues and folk rock led to heavy metal Guitarist Jimmy Page Drummer John Bonham Lead Vocals Robert Plant Bassist John Paul Jones Led Zeppelin Dazed and Confused Glam and Progressive Rock 1970 s Glam Rock Androgyny Costumes makeup cross dressing theatricality Aesthetics Music Challenged sexuality and gender roles Classic 70 s rock style Gender bending sounds 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 Jobriath I maman Mott the Hoople All the Young Dudes Openly gay and flaunted sexuality Made people recognise the existence of homosexuality Very short lived career Progressive Rock Electronic keyboards synthesizers sound effects Complexity in rock music Highly skilled technically complex Form Instrumentation Length Themes Concept albums Theatrical live and sonic 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 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 Classical Music Blue Cheer technically difficult Presented very masculine yet the clothing is very stereotypically gay or feminine performers often wear makeup Started following around bands Sex drugs and Rock n Roll Pamela Des Barres Groupies Shock Rock gave you Glam Metal Religion Satanism Thrash Metal Black Metal Metallica Twisted Sister Motley Crue Poison Cinderella Venom Very angry music often about anti christian ideals Popularized in Norway Black Metal bands from Norway actually starting burning down hundred year old churches across Europe Black Sabbath War Pigs Black Sabbath Paranoid 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 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 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 Early Metallica with their original bassist Cliff Burton An example of thrash speed metal Disco 1975 to 1980 Disco Era 1975 1980 Derives from the word discotheque 60 s dance crazes were done at discotheques The Hustle line dancing LP Rock groups Social dance couple dancing Against album oriented rock Less importance of the band Importance of the single More importance on the producers DJs and singers lengthy recording for use at the disco The Rise of Disco Began in the Latino Black and Gay NYC communities Black popular music Social Dancing Technology 1970 s Economic Recession Disco Bandwagon Early turn table techniques synthesizers drum machines turntables Cheap to hire DJs over a full band The Rolling Stones Miss You Diana Ross James Brown Hollywood Saturday Night Fever 1977 Rejected by hard rock punk heavy metal bands Rejection of gay culture homophobia An established beat Steady medium fast tempo Repetitive song forms Straightforward themes and lyrics Rod Stewart Sound of Disco Disco the Place floor bodies Clubs with non stop music Strict dress code ultra sensory experience heavy bass pulse flashing lights mirrors everywhere dance Hedonistic Shrine Urban communities of color and gay Gay Community New York San Francisco Black Latino Tradition of dancing on the weekends Importance of the Club 1970 s economic recession upward mobility working class and middle class access to glamour and escapism Studio 54 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Travolta Hottest club of the time leisure Artists 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 The Bee Gees Stayin Alive Donna Summer I Feel Love The Village People YMCA Powerful voice sultry and whisper like voice Producer Giorgio Moroder Disco Dive Queen of Disco Gay community Rock n Roll Hall of Fame 2013 Costumes of American masculinity cowboys cops Native Americans construction workers soldiers and leathermen Greenwich Village Simple novelty songs basic disco beat Loaded with double entendre Queer interpretations 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 Punk and New Wave Mid 1970 s DIY don t give a fuck fashion sound attitude 70 s rock and disco Commercial music industry Associated with white male working class subculture Rebellion against mainstream Possible to make music authentic and not give a fuck Criticize the industry that pays you Authentic Commercial The Place of Punk Notice a trend Mid 1970 s New York City Underground subculture Punk clubs house parties CBGBs CBGB OMFUG The Sound of Punk Loud Fast Basic musical competency Simple Pop I IV V harmonies Garageband aesthetics and skills Sonic representation of punk rock The History of Punk Proto Punk Bands Peru 1960 s Not well known Los Saicos Salvaje Death Rock n Roll Victim African American group Refused to change sound The Stooges I Wanna Be Your Dog The Ramones Sheena is a Punk Rocker Iggy pop They re still performing today Friends Not family despite stage names Middle class Queens tough 50 s biker gang image Catchy melodies super fast tempos simple harmonies no guitar solos Quick songs only 2 and a half minutes long Reverse British invasion I Wanna Be Sedated was one of the first
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