Final Flashcards
(51 cards)
How did “psychedelic rock” live on after 1967?
They lived through artists like Led Zepplin and Elton John.
What is “Progressive Rock”?
ppl trying things outside the norm sounds that hadn’t been done/utilized before.
What are some characteristics of Progressive rock?
more album focused
Rock band format-> guitar, bass, drums, keys
Draws on a wide range of music styles and traditions (anything is possible)
How is it stylistically linked to Psychedelia and which artists became links between the two? How does classical music figure into the style?
This time is post-Beatles mania, the Beatles prompted many people to want to go into music. Inspired countless middle-class young people to want to create music too, many of these young people had grown up with professional music training.
Artists combined elements of rock and classical
Which band, and which album by that band, set the foundation for progressive rock
of the early 1970s?
King Crimson “In the Court of the Crimson King” album
What are the elements of the “hippie aesthetic” and how did they inform the rock
music of the early 1970s?
“Hippie aesthetic” went hand in hand with the shift from dancing music to listening music, which had deeper lyrics that make you think and can be interpreted in different ways, hippies appreciated deep lyrics and detail. Songs were a part of the trip experience to enhance it, or were trips themselves
What characteristics of Yes’s “Roundabout” make it unlike most of the rock music
being produced at the time?
It was a 9 min song
lot more classical music elements
they messed around with different types of recording.
Why was FM radio important in the 1970s and what had happened to it by the end of
the decade? Did the importance of FM have anything to do with the shift in rock
artists’ focus from single to albums?
It was the new way of listening to rock music. and were focused on album cuts. By the end of the decade, most AOR (album-oriented rock) stations were heavily formatted, with program directors and consultants programming the music.
Why do we describe Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tears as “Jazz Rock”?
Because horns were made a central component in their music as well as combining it with traditional rock elements
Why was the Hammond Organ the keyboard of choice for bands in the late 1960s and
early 1970s?
They had drawbars which control the volume of a given sound on that instrument
What elements did Santana draw on to create their sound? Did their place of origin
influence their style?
They drew on psychedelia, jazz, and blues music. They also used Latin elements in their music
What makes disco sound like disco?
Dance music, very synthetic music
Which Bay Area band was commercially successful at fusing elements of funk with psychedelia?
Sly and The Family Stone
What instrument in Sly and the Family Stone’s “Thank You” establishes the groove?
Which member is playing it?
Bassist Larry Graham
Stevie Wonder was signed with which label? How was his second contract different
from those of most other artists at the same label?
Motown
Given complete control over his productions
in the 1970s
Album-oriented material
Wrote, produced, and played music of his
own material
Describe the characteristics of George Clinton’s Parliament. What song do we have as an example? What makes it “funk”?
Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk)
It’s dancable
How are Iggy and the Stooges proto-punk? Where were they from?
they indulged in a loud and rude brand of garage rock
Ann Arbor, Michigan
What was CBGB?
Country, Blue Grass, and Blues
How did early punk bands and early new wave (such as Sex Pistols and Talking
Heads) differ in approach and product? (pp. 381 ff. and lecture.) How did both reject the “hippie aesthetic”?
Punk: aggressive/dangerous
NW: toned down
scaled back musical complexities
shortened the tunes
teenage romance
not always “polished” vocals
Who managed the Sex Pistols and why was he important?
Malcolm McLaren
helped birth punk culture
Which British new wave group blended a strong reggae influence into their music?
The Police
Stevie Nicks was a singer and composer for which 1970s rock band?
Fleetwood Mac
What styles come together in much of the music of Queen? Who was the lead singer
for the band?
glam rock, classical, prog rock
Freddie Mercury
Which album by Fleetwood Mac spent thirty-one weeks at no. 1 on the Billboard
chart?
rumours
