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British Invasion
Soul and Motown
Electrified folk.
Rock.
British Invasion: Muddy Waters tours
England, influencing growing
generation of British players.
Brits played an approximation of
R&B/Rock and Roll.
The Beatles – Paul Mcartney, John
Lennon.
The Rolling Stones.- Mick Jagger, Keith
Richards.
A black owned record label (Berry Gordy) based in Detroit.
Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson.
A conscious effort to produce authentic black music with commercial appeal.
Artists heavily influenced by African American gospel and R&B.
Similar type of music produced by Staxand Atlantic.(Aretha Franklin)
Influential soul/funk
singer.
Music
characterised by
blues vamps with
melodic bass lines.
Revolutionised the
solo singer dance
performer.
Folk tradition was established in 50s.
Consisted of solo performer, usually accomp. by guitar.
With the adoption of technology this medium became electrified giving birth to alternate form of producing music.
Key Figures: Bob Dylan, Jodi Mitchell.
Jimi Hendrix guitar phenom who introduced
different textures to guitar playing.
Wah- Wah pedal, fuzz box….
Other guitarists- Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page,
Jeff Beck (Yardbirds) and George Harrison (Beatles)
These textural differences created the Rock
sound opened the door the explorations in
the 1970s.
Baraka, Amiri. Blues People: Negro Music
in White America. New York: W. Morrow,
1963. Print.
Starr, Larry, and Christopher A.
Waterman. American Popular Music:
From Minstrelsy to Mp3. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2007. Print.
