Friendly Warning :Test # 3

TOMORROWThursday, 26 July 2012

Covers “1960s”Chapters 4 & 5

Review sheets and PowerPoints posted on course web site

Friendly Warning :Test # 4

next weekTuesday, 31 July 2012

Covers ’60s Black Styles and Psychedelia

Chapters 6 & 7

Review sheets and PowerPoints partially posted on course web site

(Remainder to be added as covered)

No Materials for Test # 3 after this point.

Anything after this slide ison Test # 4

(scheduled 31 July 2012)

Chapter 7 Starts Here

“Psychedelia”Defined as: “the realm or artifacts of

psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like”

psychedelic = “intensified sensory perception”

Psychedelia

Youth Culture in 1960s

• Baby Boom (1946-64)- 4 million births per year (1954-1965)- 4 out 10 Americans under 20 (1965)

• Suspicious / Questioning Adult values- “Corruption” of Adults- Vietnam, Civil Rights, etc.

• “Never trust anyone over 30”- Berkeley Free Speech Movement (1964)

“Higher Consciousness”• Knowing Reality as is it (truly) is….

• Based in Eastern Religions (Yoga, Buddhism, Sufisim, Hinduism, Tao)

• Application of spiritual awareness- Think about it… (literally)- patience, kindness, truthfulness, humility and forgiveness towards one's fellow man

• Higher Truths sought through meditation/study

LSD

Timothy Leary (1920-1996)

“turn on, tune in, drop out”

LSD• Lysergic acid diethylamide

or just “acid”

• Psychotropic (mood altering)

• Wide range of physicaland psychological reactions

• Ken Kesey & Merry Pranksters- Beat generation / Hippie- author One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest- “Acid Tests”

• Entheogenic Drug- literally “becoming divine within”- contact w/ “greater spiritual order”

Music & Drugs• Two possible ways to connect these… (either)• Music enhances the drug experience… (or)• Music creates [replaces] the drug experience• Drug Culture coincides w/ more ambitious

creative and recording projects (STUDIO)- Brian Wilson & Beach Boys- Beatles w/ George Martin

• FM radio in late 1960s- better signal (stereo!), but shorter range- “A.O.R.” : album-oriented Rock- different listening habits

Two Favorite Bands for Listening while on Drugs

“Good Vibrations”

(textbook, p. 259)

• Released 10 Oct 1966, # 1 in US & UK(# 6 on Rolling Stone top 500 greatest Rock songs)

• “Pocket Symphony” – non-traditional instruments• Electro-Theremin (see next slide)• YouTube - Beach Boys - Good Vibrations

Theremin & Eletro-Theremin

Leo Theremin (c. 1930)

How to play:Theremin Lesson One – YouTubeTheremin Lesson Two - YouTube

The Beatles (as a Studio Band)

• 1966 - end of touring & into the studio- controversy over Lennon’s remarks- inability to play works in concert

• Albums as more unified “artistic” works- Rubber Soul (1965) – “Norwegian Wood” - Revolver (1966) – “Tomorrow Never Knows”

• Major album project (begins Dec 1966)- 700 hours of studio time- “everything had to be different”- personal story of growing up in Liverpool

“Penny Lane”• 1967 – EMI “AA” Single• Paul McCarney song• Mossley Hill district of

Liverpool- Center City bus stops here

• The Beatles - Penny Lane - YouTube

• YouTube - Penny Lane Piccolo Trumpeter

• YouTube - Beatles Cartoon - Penny Lane

“Strawberry Fields”

• Opposite side of “Penny Lane” (AA single)• John Lennon song• Salvation Army Children’s Home (Woolton, suburb

of Liverpool, near Lennon’s home)• The Beatles Strawberry Fields Forever (2009 Stereo

Remaster) – YouTube (Beatles promotional film)

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts

Club Band (1967)

List of images on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sgt. Peppers (side 1)

• YouTube - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band- The Beatles

• YouTube - The Beatles - With A Little Help From My Friends

• YouTube - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds• YouTube - its getting better all the time beatles• YouTube - The Beatles - Fixing a hole• She's Leaving Home- The Beatles - YouTube• YouTube - The Beatles - Being for the benefit of

Mr.Kite

“A Day in the Life”• Final Track of Sgt. Peppers…. Album• 1st verse – Death of Tara Browne or Drug Reference?• Middle section – Separate McCartney Piano Piece• Final verse – Article in Daily Mail about potholes• The Beatles- A Day in the Life - YouTube

Magical Mystery Tour

• 1st project after death of Brian Epstein (1967)

• Idea for unscripted film- panned in UK, no US release

• More psychedelic than Sgt P.

• Lewis Carroll (1872) “Walrus and the Carpenter”

• I am the Walrus - The Beatles - YouTube

• Lennon combines 3 songs (includes nonsense syllables)

(The Beatles) - 1968• The “White” Album

(“The Beatles” embossed on cover)

• Many songs conceived while in India w/ guru

• Serious discord and group breakup

• Back in the U.S.S.R.-The Beatles(lyrics) – YouTube(spoof on Beach Boys)

YellowSubmarine

• Soundtrack to 1969 film- The Beatles' Yellow Submarine film is restored and re-released - YouTube

• Only four new songs• Yellow Submarine The

Beatles – YouTube• The Beatles - All You

Need Is Love - YouTube

Abbey Road• 1969-70 : last album before

disbanding• EMI Studio on AR• Difficult rehearsals

(Jan 1969)• George Martin oversees

“a miserable experience”• Billy Preston – “Get Back”• The Beatles - Come

Together with Lyrics - YouTube

Psychedelia

Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco

• S.F. Neighborhood- Afro-Am & Japanese- in decline in 1950s

• Cheap housing for Beatniks & similar types

• Hippies & Drugs• Home to R ‘n R bands

- Grateful Dead- Jefferson Airplane- Janis Joplin- etc.

Hippies• “Counterculture”

- anti-Middle Class- anti-“Establishment”

• Mostly White, aged 15-25• Anti-War, Anti-Nuclear• Eastern Philosophies• Psychedelic drugs• “Free Love”• Organic food, vegans, etc.• Eco-friendly (save the planet)• “peace, love and freedom”

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