Many 1960s folk-rock hits were not original, but neither were they referred to as cover versions. Cover versions were “inauthentic,” but folk-rock repertoire was defined by songs by Bob Dylan and ...Joni Mitchell, interpreted by performers like the Byrds and Judy Collins. “The House of the Rising Sun” exemplifies adaptation via “trad. arr.”; “Mr. Tambourine Man” demonstrates “folk process” blending with Tin Pan Alley; and “Both Sides Now” highlights early rock critics’ questioning of folk values via discussion of interpretive women folksingers. The way each song was framed within contemporary cultural discourse highlights how “folk” or rock as “folk culture” acted as an ideological smokescreen for competing versions of rock music.
"Eight Miles High: Folk-Rock's Flight from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock" is the sequel to "Turn! Turn! Turn!: The 1960s Folk-Rock Revolution," which documented the birth and heyday of folk-rock in the ...1960s. Detailing folk-rock from mid-1966 to the end of the 1960s, "Eight Miles High" portrays the mutation of folk-rock into psychedelia via California bands like the Byrds and Jefferson Airplane; the maturation of folk-rock composers in the birth of the singer-songwriter movement; the reemergence of Bob Dylan and the inception of country-rock; the rise of folk-rock's first supergroup from the ashes of the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield; the origination of a truly British form of folk-rock; and the growth of the live folk-to-rock music festival, from Newport to Woodstock. Based on first-hand interviews with folk-rock figures such as Roger McGuinn, Donovan, Judy Collins, and more than 100 others, "Eight Miles High" and its prequel "Turn! "Turn! Turn!" have been updated from the original print books for their 2015 ebook versions. "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and "Eight Miles High" have also been combined into one ebook, "Jingle Jangle Morning: Folk-Rock in the 1960s", which adds a bonus mini-book detailing the nearly 200 tracks that would be compiled into the author's ideal 1960s folk-rock box set.
The Beatles at Woodstock Campbell, Kenneth L.
Popular music and society,
03/2020, Letnik:
43, Številka:
2
Journal Article
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The Beatles had a large influence on Woodstock even though the group was not physically present at the festival. This article traces the influence of the Beatles through a discussion of the covers of ...Beatles' songs performed at the festival, the spirit of the Beatles as it manifested itself at Woodstock, and the presence of drugs both in the Beatles' lives and music as well as at Woodstock. It also explores other ways in which the Beatles influenced the festival. i
This study focuses on accent shift or stylization to American English features in Anglophone pop-rock music and examines linguistic constraints alongside music-related considerations, as well as the ...effect of changes in musical genre on variable accent shift. The case study is the British band Mumford and Sons and their variable production of non-prevocalic rhotics as either present or absent. Mumford and Sons is of interest because they have displayed a change in their musical style throughout their career from Americana to alt-rock. The band’s four studio albums were auditorily analyzed and coded for rhotic vs. non-rhotic with aid from spectrograms. The linguistic factors considered were word class, preceding vowel according to the word’s lexical set, complexity of the preceding vowel, syllable complexity, stress, and location within the word and phrase. In addition, the effect of singing-related factors of syllable elongation and rhyming, and of the specific album, were also explored. Results show that rhoticity is favored in content words, stressed contexts, complex syllables, and NURSE words. This pattern is explained as stemming from the perceptual prominence of those contexts based on their acoustic and phonological characteristics. Results further show that syllable elongation leads to more rhoticity and that rhyming words tend to agree in their (non-)rhoticity. Finally, the degree of rhoticity decreases as the band departs from Americana in their later albums, highlighting the relevance of music genre for accent stylization.
Joni Mitchell is one of the foremost singer-songwriters of the late 20th century. The book presents a thorough exploration of Mitchell's musical style, sound, and structure in order to evaluate her ...songs from the perspective of music analysis. Analyses are conceived within a holistic framework, which takes account of poetic nuance, cultural reference, and stylistic evolution over a long, adventurous career. Mitchell's songs represent a complex, meticulously crafted body of work. This book offers a comprehensive survey of her output, with many discussions of individual songs, organized by topic rather than chronology. Individual chapters each explore a different aspect of her craft, such as poetic voice, harmony, melody, and large-scale form. A separate chapter is devoted to the central theme of personal freedom, as expressed through diverse symbolic registers of the journey quest, bohemianism, creative license, and spiritual liberation. The book develops a set of conceptual tools geared specifically to Mitchell's songs in order to demonstrate the extent of her technical innovation in the pop song genre, to give an account of the formal sophistication and rhetorical power characterizing her work as a whole, and to provide grounds for the recognition of her intellectual stature as a composer within her chosen field of popular music.
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