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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