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Jan 15, 2009 11:42

I've just enrolled in a subject called Popular Music Countercultures.

Outline is as follows:

Week 1: Introduction to course; Blues Rock: Cream.

Week 2: Blues Rock: Cream (cont.). Listening requirements: I Feel Free (1966). Sunshine of Your Love (1967). Passing The Time (1968).

Week 3: Psychadelia.

Week 4: The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Listening requirements: Hey Joe (1966). Purple
Haze (1967). Love or Confusion (1967). Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)? (1968).

Week 5: The Jimi Hendrix Experience (cont.)

Week 6: Progressive Rock. Listening requirements: ELP: Brain Salad Surgery

Week 7: Pink Floyd. Listening requirements: Arnold Layne (1967). Astronomy Domine (1967). Dark Side of the Moon, Shine On You Crazy Diamond (1975).

Week 8: Countercultural Theory.

Week 9: The Dark Side. Listening requirements: Velvet Underground “Waiting for my Man” Velvet Underground “Heroin” Frank Zappa “We’re Only in it for the Money” and “What’s the Ugliest Part of your Body”.

Week 10: Punk Rock. Listening requirements: Sex Pistols: Anarchy in the U.K. (1977). The Clash: London's Burning (1977).

Week 11: Punk Rock (cont.)

Week 12: Heavy Metal. Listening requirements: Black Sabbath: Warning (1970).

Week 13: Heavy Metal (cont.) Listening requirements: Deep Purple: Child in Time (1970). Deep Purple: You Fool No One (1974). Van Halen: Eruption (1978).

I think I'm going to like this semester. *grins madly*

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