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Subject: Re: Ch...ch...changes

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Miles O

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Date Posted: 10:35:30 01/04/08 Fri
In reply to: Mr. Moore 's message, "Ch...ch...changes" on 08:21:48 01/04/08 Fri

Music changed significantly from the 20s to the 60s because of the advent of the electric guitar, more advanced soundsystems, and bands like the Beatles and the Beach Boys exploring sounds outside of the instruments.

When Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, people freaked. He really brought on a change in rock music. He singlehandedly changed rock music from lovey dovey pop stuff to a social consciousness both in lyrics and instruments. From Benny Goodman we get Elvis, from Elvis we get Jimi Hendrix. The superstars evolve with the times. Benny Goodman just stood there in a white suit and played his music. Elvis shook his legs in a harmless way today, but in the 50s he was considered a misfit, a bandit, and that is why America loved him. Jimi danced on stage with clothes that resemble something like my dad's ties in the morning, dry-humped his guitar, lit it on fire and then destroyed it. Some people loved it, some hated it, to him it didn't matter. He expressed how he felt in the exact moment his feelings came to him. The Victorian hangover was over and Elvis broke through that and the Hippie movement continued that throughout the 60s and into the early part of the 70s.

The most emotional expression was exhibited by the Summer of Love. Not only with Sgt. Peppers Lonley Hearts Club Band, but with the Monterey Pop Festival. Human co-existance reached its peak during this time and died with the autumn looming.

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Re: Ch...ch...changes	Mikaela	10:35:36 01/04/08 Fri