music

1. What is the Nashville Sound?

Connie francis and branda lee , records made by rock n roller elvis Presley , The Nashville sound originated during the mid 1950s as a subgenre of American country music, replacing the chart dominance of the rough honky tonk music which was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s with "smooth strings and choruses", "sophisticated background vocals" and "smooth tempos".

1. What role does popular music play in the 1960's?

Defines the character and spirit of 1960s, begins to express the hopes and fears of a generation, remained diverse and unpredictable in the 1960s.

what is motown

Designed to cut across divisions of race, region, and class (targeted at young people), avoided direct reflections of earlier R&B forms. Motown began in 1959 and reached peak in 66.important in popularizing soul music, producing artists such as the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye. Crafted with an ear towards pop appeal, the Motown Sound typically used tambourines to accent the back beat, prominent, and often melodic electric bass-guitar lines, distinctive melodic and chord structures, and a call-and-response singing style that originated in gospel music.

1. What is countrypolitan?

Emerged in Nashville, it was a fusion of country and cosmopolitan.

1. Why is Aretha Franklin important? What are the characteristics of her music?

Extraordinary and virtually uninterrupted steam of hit POP records. Recorded amazing grace. Power and intensity of vocals. Symbolized female empowerment. Sound of her records, process of making her records, queen of soul

1. What is Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band?

Famous album cover features of a wild collage of faces and figures surrounded the 4 beatles. Lyrics to lots of songs could be related to drugs. Psychedelic in inspiration

. Who is Brian Wilson and why is he important?

Formed the beech boys with his two bros. bestselling, most nationally and internationally celebrated American rock group ever

20. Who is the Jerry Garcia?

Grateful dead came from his bands. Pioneered the transition from urban folk music to folk rock to acid rock. Quintessential live band specializing in long jams. Their devoted fans were dead heads. Fans were encouraged to record the band. Places only 1 single in the top 40.

Who is Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, MEXICAN MUSIC . Las angeles born trumpet player and songwriter. Founded A&M records with jerry moss. First release the lonely bull was a hit , later moved from mariachi style to horn driven pop, biggest single was their version of a taste of honey

1. What role did rock music play in the counterculture?

It had a rebellious attitude. Critique of the social habits and values of the middle class. Resistance to the government policies or operations of big industry

1. What is West Side Story? Who wrote it?

Jazz and latin , Bernstein, robbins &wise directed, Arthur Laurents wrote the book. Ispired by Romeo and julet

. What is Bugalu?

LATIN soul Fuses ramba and mambo with African American popular music, biggest hit was watermelon man

23. Who is Jimmy Hendrix? What are the characteristics of his music? Why is he important?

Most original, inventive, and influential guitarist of the rock era. Most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s. formed the jimi Hendrix played guitar with teeth and behind back, stroking its neck along his microphone stand pretending to make love to it and setting it on fire with lighter fuid. Feed back and distortion. Explored the borderline between traditional conceptions of music and noise. Purple haze is a strophic song with extraordinary instrumental introduction and guitar solo.

who is janis joplin

Most successful blues singer of the 1960s. member of the big brother and holding company. full tilt singing style and directness of expression were inspired by Bessie smith and created rough raspiness tones and multipitched sounds called multiphonics

1. Who is Bob Dylan? Why is he important? What is significant about his music?

NYC acoustic singer songwriter , kept him from being pop marketable for years , early songs introduced by top 40 audiences by other, smoother, performers, he wrote about human relationships. Notable use of irony. Made it acceptable for rock and roll to be serious. First important representative of the rock musician whos career was sustained by albums. Heterogeneous erratic output of albumbs.

29. Who is Barry Gordy and why is he important?

Named after the motor city detroot. This is the most stunning success story in the entire history of African American businesses in this country. All creative and financial aspects of the business under African American control. MOTOWN

28. What is the Brill Building?

New York office buildings where influential songwriters worked. Became rock n rolls vertical tin pan alley. Some songwriters were also performers.

what is cloud nine

Norman whitfield came up with the sound in late 1968. The cloud 9 of the song is a drug reference. The reality of the song is that of the urban slums, which people turn to drugs out of desperation.

38. What is a bossa nova?

Portaguese for new trend , blend of samba rhythms and west coast style of modern jazz, staple of jazz repertoire

· 35. How do The Rolling Stones differ from The Beatles?

Rolling stones; closer to roots in American R and B Music intense and dark More bad boys than the beatles Low down, hard rock.

1. Who is the "King of Soul?"

Sam cooke

1. Who is "Soul Brother #1"? Why is he important?

Soul brother number 1 is james brown. He is important bc he brought his experience with gospel singing to bear upon their performances of secular material . focuses on the play of rhythm and timbre , dance oriented music is based on him

25. What does the dance "The Twist" symbolize in American pop culture?

Symbolized a change to free form dance in America. In the wake of the twist, many other popular songs in the early 1960s were dance oriented.

. What factors contributed to the end of the counterculture of the 1960's?

Symbolized by the death of jimi Hendrix, jim morrison, Janis Joplin, and the break up of the beatles. End of Vietnam war, oil crisis of 1973, economic inflation, Watergate 1974

1. Who is Ray Charles? What was his important country album?

Synthesis of country and rhythm and blues elements. Constant presence on the rhythm and blues charts during the 1950s. achieved number 1 pop hitwith standard Georgia on my mind. Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music was his country album

21. What is "Light My Fire"? Who recorded it and made it popular?

The doors, a controversial rock band of the sixties. It had the greatest impact on the way that rock music was experienced and consumed in the late 1960s. manzarek played and jim morrison sings

1. How do the Rolling Stones tie into the counterculture?

The malevolent image intensified, rock n roll violence and Satanism. - street fighting man, sympathy for the devil

How are Motown and Philles alike? Different?

They both came from one man creating his own songwriting, producing, marketing organization. Phil spector used echoing and doubling and a huge amount of reverb. Motown- barry gordy, both worked with vocal groups. motown was more with soul music

26. What is Philles?

This sound is known as the wall of sound , teenage symphonies. There are multiple instruments, part doubling, using a large amount of reverb.

1. Who is Patsy Cline? Why is she important?

Walkin after midnight, successful in country and pop charts , successful during segregation of pop and country. Combines sophisticated phrasing, hints of rural and bluesy infelctions, and crooning "crazy"

27. Who is Phil Spector and why is he important?

Worked with studio musicians at Gold Star Studios known as the wrecking crew, Los Angeles. Preferred to work with vocal groups. Worked on the last album released by the beatles let it be. wagnerian approach to rock n roll .. created the wall of sound

beatles

a British band that had an enormous influence on popular music in the 1960s. first time mass adulation was bestowed on non native pop musicians. Beatles popularity unleashed the british invasion. Representative of an accelerating receptivity in America to OVERT pop music influences from all over the world · Incorporated musical influences from india · Evolved in new and unexpected directions · Altered the character of pop music profoundly · Began as a performing band modeled on buddy holly's group the crickets · Yesterday: harmonic complexity

. Who was the best-selling American group of the 1960's?

beach boys

what is psychedelic

emulating the drug-induced experience

what is the counterculture

group(subculture) with expectations/values that differ strongly with the dominant culture  The meeting of the culture surrounding new rock music with political and social discontents largely defined as the counterculture Rock music was part of this definition

1. What was the first musical to celebrate the counterculture?

hair

1. What was Sam Cook's greatest song? How was it used?

A change is gonna come , use of orchestra instruments and their association with classical music , announces the seriousness of what is to follow. Anthem of 1960s civil rights movement

Why is San Francisco important in the counterculture?

Alternative rock music scene developed here. The Filmore was a symbolic symbol of counterculture. Focal point for the psychedelic music and the counterculture in general

36. What is "Pet Sounds?"

Beach boys symphonic cycle of songs, progresses from youthful optimism to philosophical and emotional disillusionment. Rocks first concept album.