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What are the two reasons for the dominance of the Beatles?
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1. The US music industry was in a period of stagnation.
2. They eclipsed all other talent in America at the time. |
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This band was formed in Los Angeles in 1964
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The Byrds
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The Byrds were pioneers of...
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Folk Rock.
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The Byrds were a kind of "_____ _____"
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"Beatilized Dylans"
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Bob Dylan's genre is
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Folk Rock.
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Early Folk Rock had a ______ ____
Some songs were _______ ____ But many other like "California Dreamin" by The Mamas and the Papas were ____ _______ |
sunny disposition, protest songs, pure escapism.
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This band was formed in Los Angeles in 1965.
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The Doors
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This band epitomized the darker side of the counter culture.
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The Doors
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The Doors got their name from Aldous Huxley's...
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The Doors Of Perception
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This song by The Doors caused them to become the number one teenybopper band in the country.
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Light My Fire
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Country Joe and the Fish released a song about the Draft to vietnam. This song was called... (it was also recorded live at Woodstock).
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I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-to-Die Rag
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Acid/LSD was not made illegal in California until this year. It was made illegal nationally in this year.
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1966, 1967.
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This Harvard professor would be an immediate influence in the spread of LSD use within the counterculture of the early 1960s.
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Timothy Leary
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The "Human Be-In" was a happening in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco that, among other things had Timothy Leary...
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Promote the use of LSD to a crowd of 30,000.
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This person/group (I don't think they were a band) began to hold group events called acid tests. This person/group's psychedelic bus became an icon of the counter culture.
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Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
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Tom Wolfe wrote ________ which was a series of accounts from The Merry Pranksters and Ken Kesey on their drug trips and bus trips across the country.
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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This festival held in 1966 featured theatre, mime, lightshows, readings, films and music by The Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company.
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The Trips Festival
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Haight-Ashbury is a district in this city. Which also became the spiritual mecca for the counter culture, culminating in the _____ __ _____ in 1967.
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San Francisco, Summer of Love
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This band formed in San Francisco in 1965
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Jefferson Airplane OR The Grateful Dead
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Jefferson Airplane were the only San Francisco group to do what in the 1960s?
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They were the only San Francisco group to have top ten singles. in the 1960s.
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What was the first San Francisco band to be signed to a major label?
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Jefferson Airplane
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This band never had a top ten album or single until 1987, though they were formed in 1965.
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The Grateful Dead
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The Grateful Dead represented the _______ _______ to the rest of the country.
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Counter Culture
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The Grateful Dead were the house band at...
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Ken Kesey's acid tests.
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The Grateful Dead were notable in music history for, among other things....
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putting on more free shows than any band in history.
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Gatherings like the Human Be-In Festival gave way for
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Large Scale music Festivals
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The first large rock festival, held in 1967 was called
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Monterey Pop.
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This was the number in attendance at Monterey Pop.
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30,000
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The intent of Monterey Pop was to
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legitimize rock as an art form.
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How much were performer's paid to play at Monterey Pop?
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Nothing. It was a charity event.
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Monterey Pop launched the large careers of these two famous musicians:
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Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin
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Janis Joplin died due to
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a heroin overdose. What a bitch.
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Janis Joplin's group band was called
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Big Brother and the Holding Company.
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This group epitomized the blues influence within the counter culture.
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Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company.
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This person was one of the most influential and innovative rock guitarists of the 1960s.
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Jimi Hendrix
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San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) was written by
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John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas. It was performed at Monterey Pop.
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This large scale musical festival had 400,000 people and occurred in 1969.
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Woodstock
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Woodstock ended up becoming a free show when...
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The fences were pulled down.
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Woodstock was declared a...
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Disaster zone, but there was no violence and there was a large spirit of co-operation.
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This band had its debut at Woodstock.
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Santana.
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Woodstock is known as counter-culture's what?
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Finest Hour.
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Santana was formed in BLANK in what year?
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San Francisco in 1967.
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This was a free concert organized by the Rolling Stones.
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Altamont
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Altamont was a free concert organised by
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The Rolling Stones.
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There were CIRCA 300,000 people in attendance at this large scale concert.
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Altamont
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How many people attended Altamont?
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CIRCA 300,000
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Who was hired to guard the stage and equipment at atlamont? What was their payment?
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The Hells Angels, and beer.
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This person was murdered by The Hell's Angels at Altamont in front of the stage as The Rolling Stone performed.
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Meredith Hunter.
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This was a moving music festival in Canada in 1970. It demonstrated a shift from Acid Rock to a more roots-oriented aesthetic, dominant in the 70s.
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Festival Express
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Roots in the folk revival lead to the genre...
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Soft Rock
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Song content of soft rock was generally
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semi-autobiographical
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This genre forwarded female points of view not normally heard in rock.
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Soft Rock.
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This artist exemplified singer/songwriter's because of her confessional folk-pop style.
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Joni Mitchell
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This artist lent a new respectibility to country music in the 1960s. Country music was often perceived as corny, old-fashioned and socially regressive.
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Bob Dylan
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This was Bob Dylan's backing band.
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The Band
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In the band Buffalo Springfield, you can hear Neil Young's two main directions of music in the 1970s. They were...
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Country Rock and Proto-Grunge
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Joni Mitchell was Canadian. True or False?
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True.
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A number of movements lead a dramatic shift towards the left wing in the 1950s and into the 60s, they are...
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1. The Civil Rights Movement
2. Anti-War movements, including the Cold War. 3. The Counter-culture. 4. Women's liberations and gay rights. |
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This famous American poet wrote Howl. He spoke out about the war and other political and social issues.
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Allen Ginsberg.
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Political dimensions of the ____ _______ had their roots in the 1930s.
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Folk Revival.
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In response to the dust bowl and the depression, there was a surge in...
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Left-Wing activism.
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The Folk revival found new expression in the context of the...
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Civil Rights Movement.
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The height of the American Folk revival is considered to be from..
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1958-1965
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Two key figures in the Folk Revival are...
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Woody Guthrie and Pete Seegar
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The folk revival was centered in...
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Greenwich Village, a part of New York City.
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This artist was born in Oklahoma and was radicalized by the migrations of the Dust Bowl era.
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Woody Guthrie.
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Woody Guthrie recorded the Album ____ ______ _____ in 1940 for Victor Records.
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Dust Bowl Ballads.
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Bob Dylan was primarily influenced by this Artist, also responsible for the Folk Revival.
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Woody Guthrie
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This Land Is Your Land is by...
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Woody Guthrie
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This artist saw music as a means for helping to mobilize a mass movement.
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Pete Seeger
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Pete Seeger is a founding member of this, a socialist song-writing collective based in Greenwich village.
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The Almanac Singers.
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The Weavers covered Leadbelly's "Goodnight Irene" which did this...
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Topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950.
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Pete Seeger became a member of a band called
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The Weavers.
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The Weavers suffered this unfortunate fate in 1953, at the height of their career.
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They were black listed causing radio stations to refuse playing of their records and all their shows were cancelled.
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Hundreds of people were imprisoned and thousands lost their jobs between these years as a result of official and unofficial black-listing.
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Late 1940s and into the mid 1950s.
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Bob Dylan was born in 1941 to a middle class Jewish family in this state.
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Minnesota.
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This artist moved to New York City in 1961, and visited Woody Guthrie, whom he idolized.
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Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan was signed in 1962 to this record company.
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Columbia Records.
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Bob Dylan went electric at this festival in 1965. This signified the ending of the American what?
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Newport Folk Festival. Signifying the end of the American Folk Revival.
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Punk and Disco are compared on the first slide.
These are the attributes for Disco. Give the corresponding attributes for Punk Rock. Decadence Smooth, sleek, sensual Technological sophistication and studio production. Polyester Leisure Suits African American and Latin Brought people together across racial, class and sexual lines. |
Nihilism
Dense, Discordant and defiant. Raw three chord garage band music Black leather and ripped t-shirts White Conflicted in its flirtation with Nazi imagery. |
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Punk and Disco are compared on the first slide.
These are the attributes for Punk Rock. Give the corresponding attributes for Disco. Nihilism Dense, Discordant and defiant. Raw three chord garage band music Black leather and ripped t-shirts White Conflicted in its flirtation with Nazi imagery. |
Decadence
Smooth, sleek, sensual Technological sophistication and studio production. Polyester Leisure Suits African American and Latin Brought people together across racial, class and sexual lines. |
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What two genres were initially shunned by the radio?
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Punk Rock and Disco
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Punk and Disco developed their own countercultural...
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Networks.
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Punk and Disco did what to its audiences?
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Encouraged active participation
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Where did the term "Punk Music" originate?
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It was used to describe the music being played at CBGB's in New York in the mid 1970s.
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Punk is a deconstruction of what genre?
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Rock and Roll.
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In the US punk was a largely ______- class phenomenon. In the UK it was largely ______- class
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Middle/Working
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This genre represented the ugly and sometimes brutal facts of white urban experience.
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Punk Rock
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This band's brand of "Trash" rock directly influenced the development of the punk scene in New York.
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The New York Dolls
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This band's loud, fast sound and anti-establishment stance prefigured much of punk.
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The Motor City Five.
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This band consisting of classically-trained Lou Reed and John Cale as the creative axis was formed in 1965.
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The Velvet Underground
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The Velvet Underground became part of this famous artist's multi-media show "The Exploding Plastic Inevitable".
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Andy Warhol
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This band was formed in 1967, and was inspired by The Velvet Underground and The Doors.
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Iggy Pop and the Stooges.
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This member of The Velvet Underground produced Iggy Pop and the Stooges' first album.
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John Cale
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Iggy is considered the...
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Godfather of Punk.
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This bar in New York became the origin of punk rock.
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CBGB's.
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Name some of the famous bands whose careers were launched by CBGB's. There are 5.
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1. Television
2. Patti Smith 3. Blondie 4. The Ramones 5. Talking Heads |
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This early punk artist fused free-verse poetry and improvisatory rock.
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Patti Smith.
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This artist's androgynous clothing and fuck-you attitude helped to create a new cultural space for women.
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Patti Smith
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This album by Patti Smith was produced by John Cale of The Velvet Underground and was one of the few punk albums to do what?
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Horses, and enter the top 40.
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This band fully shaped the genre of punk rock by becoming higher, faster, louder and briefer.
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The Ramones.
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The Ramones were a reaction to what?
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Pretentious Art-Rock.
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This band stripped rock and roll to its bare essentials, with a nod to earlier surf music.
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The Ramones.
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The Ramones not only defined the pile-driving sound of punk, but it also accomplished what important feat?
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Kickstarted the punk scene in the UK.
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He was known as the "Godfather of Soul" and the "King of Funk".
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James Brown.
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The addition of what 2 musical elements to soul and funk paved the way for the disco sound?
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String Orchestras and the "Waka" guitar sound.
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What term referred to, initially, just the music that was being played at clubs; much of which was just danceable funk.
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Disco.
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As this genre developed, it took elements from Latin percussion, funk bass grooves and saxes of Rhythm and Blues.
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Disco.
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What is the best selling soundtrack of all time?
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The soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever.
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What sent disco into the mainstream?
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The soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever.
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Veterans of the CBGB's scene, Deborah Harry and Blondie would take the unusual step of combining punk with what genres?
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Disco, as well as reggae and even rap.
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A sharp distinction is made in the early 1950s between these two genres...
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Gospel (The music of Jesus) and Rhythm and Blues (The music of the Devil)
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What style of artist moved into the secular world of R&B, using organs, soaring vocals, background choruses and call-and-response?
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Gospel-trained Singers.
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What group is considered to be the first to develop a gospel sound in R&B?
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The Dominoes.
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Who was the most influential gospel-tinged vocalist?
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Ray Charles.
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What was Ray Charles' first national hit, which exemplified his jazz-gospel-R&B fusion.
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I've Got A Woman.
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This artist performed secular songs delivered with the energy of a Pentecostal service.
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Ray Charles.
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This artist began singing professionally with the gospel group the Soul Stirrers.
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Sam Cooke.
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This was Sam Cooke's first secular single. What name did he release it under?
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You Send Me (1957), and it was released under the name "Dale" Cooke.
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This artist set the style for soul crooners with his clean good looks and smooth vocals.
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Sam Cooke.
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In what era do we see the emergence of polished and urban "uptown" R&B?
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1960s.
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This type of R&B used elaborate instrumentation, lavish studio production, and advanced recording techniques.
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"Uptown" R&B.
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This person founded Motown Records.
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Berry Gordy.
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Who played a particularly central role in Uptown R&B?
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The producers. Ex, Phil Spector and his "Girl Groups".
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The Ronettes are an example of this type of group.
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Uptown R&B girl group.
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What was special about 1962, in terms of R&B and the charts?
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There were more black artists on the year-end singles charts than at any time in history. Largely because of the emergence of girl groups.
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He is known as the first tycoon of teen.
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Phil Spector
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Phil Spector produced the most successful girl groups including these two...
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The Crystals and The Ronettes.
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The "Wall of Sound" epitomizes uptown R&B girl groups and was developed by what producer?
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Phil Spector.
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This producer did everything from writing the music, scouting the talent, recording the sessions, engineering the sound and producing the records.
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Phil Spector.
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What was Blue-Eyed Soul?
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It was black sounding music written by whites, produced by whites, performed by whites, but accepted by blacks. An example of this is The Righteous Brothers.
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Motown Records was founded in what year?
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1960. (In Michigan),
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Virtually all of Motown's creative personality were what?
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Black.
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The target audience of Motown records was....
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White.
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This record company came to symbolize the integrationist dream of the Civil Rights movement.
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Motown Records.
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The Temptations and Marvin Gaye were signed to what records company?
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Motown Records.
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Who are known as "The jewel in Motown's crown?"
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The Supremes.
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This producer, unlike Phil Spector, had emphasis on developing the careers of his artists.
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Berry Gordy.
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This male and this female performers from The Temptations and The Supremes, respectably, went on to have successful solo careers.
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Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross.
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This artist brought the social consciousness of the folk movement into black music.
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Curtis Mayfield.
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Who wrote the song "People Get Ready", later famously covered by Bob Marley.
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Curtis Mayfield.
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What song did Curtis Mayfield write, later covered by Bob Marley.
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People Get Ready.
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A Change is Gonna Come, by Sam Cooke, was inspired by what Bob Dylan song?
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Blown' in the Wind.
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There are three key events in 1965. They are...
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The assassination of Malcolm X.
The Watts uprising takes place. Civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael starts promoting the idea of Black Power. |
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This famous person advocated a program of Black Nationalism, or black self-determination.
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Malcolm X.
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This person emphasized that black liberation was a matter of human rights, and not civil rights.
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Malcolm X.
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Malcolm X said that only African Americans can...
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Free Themselves.
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What was the Watts Uprising?
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Six days of riots in the predominantly black Watts neighbourhood of Los Angeles.
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This was a result of accumulating racial tensions, particularly around the issue of police brutality.
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The Watts Uprising.
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How many national guardmen were brought in to stop the Watts riots?
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14,000.
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Where and when was the Black Panther party formed?
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California in 1966.
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This began as a black nationalist organization.
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The Black Panther party.
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As the Black Panther party shifted to a socialist perspective that allied itself with other minority groups, they had the following as a common goal:
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Community Development.
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The Black Panther Party was based around a program called...
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The Ten Point Program. It wanted Justice and Peace for all.
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This artist carried the Africanization of popular music to its logical extreme.
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James Brown
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Who is the king of funk?
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James Brown
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Who is the godfather of soul?
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James Brown
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This record label helped move the black pop music towards a closer-to-the-roots hard driving rhythm and blues.
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Stax-Volt. It recorded in the Memphis-Muscle Shoals region of the South.
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In the mid 60s, "southern soul" became popular through a collaboration between these three record companies.
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Atlantic Records
Stax-Volt Fame |
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This record company was located in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
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Fame
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This person was the definitive female soul singer of the 1960s.
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Aretha Franklin
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Aretha Franklin only achieved commercial success after recording for this record company, in this location.
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Atlantic, at the Muscle Shoals studios.
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Aretha Franklin was known as...
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Lady Soul.
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This female soul artist became a symbol of black pride.
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Aretha Franklin
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This record label was a haven for black talent, but aimed at a white audience.
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Motown
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Stax was an integrated studio that, unlike Motown, aimed primarily at this demographic..
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Black R&B audience.
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This record company was specifically low-tech, as opposed to Motown.
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Stax
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He was one of the top soul singers of the 1960s.
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Otis Redding
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To help define the Memphis soul sound, this artist wrote, arranged, and produced for other artists.
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Otis Redding
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Otis Redding had his introduction to white audiences at this music festival.
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Monterey Pop Festival
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Otis Redding died as the result of..
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A Plane Crash
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He was the key songwriter, arranger, producer, pianist, and vocalist for Stax-Volt
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Isaac Hayes
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He became famous for his soundtrack to the film "Shaft" in 1972.
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Isaac Hayes
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At this festival, 100,000 people attended, mostly African Americans.
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Wattstax Festival
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The Wattstax festival took place in 1972 in Los Angeles as a commemoration of the 1965 what?
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Watts uprising/riots.
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Isaac Hayes along with the rest of the Stax roster played this festival.
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Wattstax
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The Wattstax festival was hosted by this person.
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Reverend Jesse Jackson
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