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50 Cards in this Set
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Where did southern soul go?
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died with Otis Redding, financial problems, studios went bankrupt, became 'sweet soul'
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"Papa's Got A Brand New Bag"
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James Brown, 1965; repeating vamp- harmony, riff (melody)
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"Super Bad"
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James Brown (1970); extended repetition in music with vamp, harmonically simple, complex rhythms, fun, energetic, up tempo, active bass, funk guitar, off beat, not deep lyrics
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Funk Music
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(thanks James Brown) party, fun, dance music, more profain and dirty, present social content
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Influences of Sly and The Family Stone
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james brown/ funk/ black + psychedelic/ rock/ white= integrated band (gender and race)
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"Dance To The Music" & "Everyday People"
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Sly and Family Stone, energetic, lyrics to the point
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Larry Graham
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Sly and Family Stone bassist, thumb popping, slapping strings
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"Thank You (Falletin Me Be Mice Elf Again)"
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Sly and The Family Stone, 1970, funk. word play
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Sly Stone's personal problems
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drugs, racial pressures, 'Stagger Lee' myth, typical bad-guy
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There's A Riot Going On (album)
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Sly and The Family Stone (1971) effective, powerful, pessimistic, related to racial america
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"Jungle Boogie"
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Kool & The Gang, Funk, very commercial, fun, party, dancing
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Soul Train
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TV show through 70's, "Funk Master" flashy clothes, glitter, costume, bright colors, performance archetype
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Dr. Funkenstien show elements...
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elaborate show, lots of ppl on stage, big sound, lights, set, costumes, flying saucer "the Mothership"
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Dr. Funkenstien and the counter culture
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'free the mind', alternative universe, morality play, outterspace is a world w/o race
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George Clinton and music
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AKA Dr. Funkenstien, P.Funk, parliment, funkadelic, highly rhythmic, active bass, interlocing rhythms, fun-social criticism
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lasting influence of George Clinton
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most sampled group, forerunner for hip-hop
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Stevie Wonder
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left Motown at 21, for more creative control, music has soul, reggae, funk elements
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Clavinet
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innovation by Stevie Wonder, piano/synthesizer
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"Superstition"
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Stevie Wonder, 1972, edge of social commentary
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Lester Bangs
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music critic, took Rock seriously, coined term "heavy metal"
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fans of heavy metal
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the younger siblings to counter-culture, opposite, working class, aggressive
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heavy metal musical elements
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guitar- disdortion, noise, riff based; active drums and bass, vocals- high; masculine, aggresive, power chords
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members of Led Zeppelin
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Jimmy Page (guitar) was a studio musician, versatile; John Paul Jones (bass) studio musician; Robert Plant (vocals) joined at 18; John Bonham (drums)
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Versatility of Led Zeppelin
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blues riffs, celtic feel, arabic/indian, country, psychedelic
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"Dazed and Confused"
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Led Zeppelin, org. 'I'm Confused', off Led Zeppelin I (1969)
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"Whole Lotta Love"
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Led Zeppelin, sued for copying muddywaters/ small faces; psychedelic based, invented riff, new musical level, different vocal quality; prod. Jimmy Page, had to attribute Willie Dixon
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"Stairway To Heaven"
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Led Zeppelin, long cresendo of instruments, double neck guitar, inspired celtic mysteriousness
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Page on Stage
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never spoke on stage, mysterious, dark , black arts, Paghanini-- bow guitar
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Black Sabbath
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strictly heavy metal, original, dark ,gloomy, "doom" music
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"Paranoid"
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Black Sabbath, 1970/71
riffs, slow, simple, disdortion, volume, noise |
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Ozzy Osbourne
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lead singer of Black Sabbath, blamed for societies ills, magnet for criticism, 'the anti-christ'
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Judas Priest
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"Victim Of Changes" heavy metal, shrill high voice, faster tempo, riff based, angrier vocals, 2 lead guitars (new standard)
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1976 metal
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decline in popularity
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Eddie VanHalen
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extemely virtuostic guitar, classical training
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Van Halen
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Heavy metal, launched 2nd wave of metal in USA
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Bon Jovi
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pop-metal, sexy, hugely popular, "Livin On A Prayer" 80s
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Metallica
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anti-BonJovi, underground sound, speed, agression, change meter, art-rock/progressive
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Frank Zappa
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"freak outs" satirical, edgy humor,
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"Money"
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Pink Floyd, unusual meter, inventive use of sounds
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Darkside of the Moon
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Pink Floyd Album 1973, concept album, extended instrumental peices, lots of studio time
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Glam as a genre
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focus on appearance, roots in psychedelic, opposite of singer-sonwriter
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Roxymusic
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"Ladytron" 1973 very showy, persona, characters, classical instruments
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David Bowie
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'Ziggy Stardust' persona, desire to shock, hype, sham, revolutionized glam, androgynous, fantasy
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Queen
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glam/hard rock, musical theatre meets hard-rock, lavish shows, stadium rock, huge audience
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Eddie Mercury
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lead singer, Queen, operatic voice, very powerful
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Kiss
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theatrical/hard rock, costumes, makeup, hair, characters, fire, blood, lights
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Alice Cooper
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"School's Out"
theatrical performances, personas, androgynous |
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Fans of early Disco
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african america, latino, gays, not mainstream
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origination of disco
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discotheques- place you go to listen to recorded music, Philadelphia, gamble and huff prod.
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disco, characteristics of the music
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use of synthesizers, high hat, lush, not as pop as motown, not as blues as southern soul, not as complez as funk
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