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Why did the term "rock" begin to be used in the late 60s instead of "rock 'n' roll"? |
Rock 'n' Roll was a term connected with R and B and teenage dance music; it seemed too frivolous to fit the growing style of what became rock, which was becoming more political, mature, and self-consciously artistic. |
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What is a counterculture and how is that term most often used? |
A subculture existing in opposition to and espousing values contrary to that of the dominant culture. The term is most often used to describe the values and lifestyle of young people during the late 1960s and early 1970s. |
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What does the essential nature of rock music in the definition of the counterculture demonstrate? |
the remarkable degree of identification between the baby boomer generation and the music they chose to make and hear. |
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What year was the summer of love? |
1967 |
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What aspects of "Sgt. Pepper" were emblematic of the counter culture? |
The album cover, the opening song style (Indian), the alternative instruments, the psychedelic lyrics and musical sounds, and the albums inclusion/recognition of the audience. |
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What was the most historically significant fact about Sgt. Pepper? |
The way in which it definitively redirected attention from the single song recording to the record album as the focus of where important new pop music was being made - Sgt. Pepper was conceived as a totality, not as a collection of individual songs |
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What was the first album to present itself as a complete and unified marketing package, and what were the components of that package? |
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; The songs on the record, the cover art, the photograph of the Beatles in their band uniforms, the complete song lyrics, the "Sgt. Pepper cut-outs", and a unique, psychedelic inner sleeve for the record |
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What incident put a definitive end to the era of Peace and Love? |
The release of the film of the Rolling Stones concert at Altamount, Gimme Shelter (1970) in which violence broke out and the black man Meredith Hunter was murdered |
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What was the music played by the San Francisco bands sometimes called? |
Psychedelic rock |
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Where was the center if the counterculture? |
the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood |
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What was different about the venues used by the San Francisco bands? |
They had open dance floors without seats (ballrooms) |
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What was the first nationally successful band to emerge out of the San Francisco scene? |
Jefferson Airplane |
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Who was the biggest celebrity in the Jefferson Airplane? |
Grace Slick, vocalist |
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Who was the singer in Big Brother and the Holding Company? |
Janis Joplin |
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Who does the textbook call the "quintessential 'live' band"? |
The Grateful Dead |
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What were the Grateful Dead's fans called, and what distinguished them from typical rock fans? |
"Deadheads," they followed and traveled alongside the band's tours and some literally lived for their band |
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Why did the Dead allow and even encourage their fans to record the band's concerts? |
Because these recordings captured their unique live performances, they didn't detract from their records sale income, and the tapes helped to create a fan based that appreciates the nuances of different concerts. |
