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Song of the Counterculture

Song of the Counterculture Who is the most popular musical group/artist today? Billboard Top 100, May 2010: Eminem Usher B.o.B. featuring Bruno Mars Taio Cruz featuring Ludacris B.o.B. featuring Eminem and Haley Williams Rhianna Train Ke$sha Lady Antebellum

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Song of the Counterculture

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  1. Song of the Counterculture

  2. Who is the most popular musical group/artist today? • Billboard Top 100, May 2010: • Eminem • Usher • B.o.B. featuring Bruno Mars • Taio Cruz featuring Ludacris • B.o.B. featuring Eminem and Haley Williams • Rhianna • Train • Ke$sha • Lady Antebellum Will any of these artists be remembered as musically “important?” What does that mean?

  3. The “Beat” Generation • Mid-1950s—early 1960s • rejection of materialism, conformity • interest in Eastern religion • Close alliance with poetry, jazz • “beatnik”

  4. 60s Counterculture • Developed as outgrowth of 50s beat culture • Alternative culture, opposition to nuclear weapons, pro-environment, anti-war, pro-equality • Reaches full stature in response to U.S. intervention in Vietnam, around 1965 • Appropriates rock music as cultural marker • “hippie”

  5. But what does music have to do with this?

  6. 1955: 1st “rock and roll” song: Bill Haley and the Comets, Rock Around the Clock • Rock music derived from blues/black culture, late 1940s • Helps originate separate, identifiable “teen culture”

  7. September 1956: Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show

  8. Can popular music be important, historically? Can lyrical/musical content reflect or cause social changes? 1967 1964 1966 1963 1968 1969 1970

  9. Get a computer. Start it up and log on. • Go to my website. • You can get the songs in one of three ways: • iPod. • Download from the website (“Songs of the Counterculture” link). • Get the songs from me and put them on your own thumb drive. • On my website, use the “Lyrics-Questions” documents to answer the questions for eight of the twelve songs.

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