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The Popular culture of the 1960s and 1970s: focus on
musicHas it all ended with the final years of the 1960s, as Dr. Medgyes suggested
some time ago?
Background
• Initial questions that gave rise to the course:– Has nothing valuable, interesting or relevant
happened after 1968?– Were the 1970s the dying of what was born
and grown in the ‘60s?
• The metaphor of a building project
Our starting point
• We must understand something of the 1950s and 1960s – to make some sense of the 1970s and later.
• Especially, we must understand something of the transition from the ’60s to the ’70s.
• Another discipline: demographics
The baby boom, 1945-1960 (64?)
• Murky limits to the period• Term comes from the US,
but also in Canada, Australia, Britain and Western-Europe.
• Writers, sociologists, demographers have started using the term for their own countries
• Something similar in Hungary, too: „Ratkó-era”.
United States birth rate (births per 1000 population). The
blue segment from 1946 to 1964 is the postwar baby boom.
Why is the boom at all interesting?
• Massive impact that lasts to this very day.
• Helps explain a lot that happened in post-war US and elsewhere.
• Helps understand the difference between 1960s and later.
• A revelation about the role of demography– See separate handout
Thinking and speaking task: the importance of the baby boom
• photographic cameras
• HIFI systems
• toys
• plastic models
• jobs and business
• cheap cars (Fiats, Beetles)
• medical services
• parents’ money
• houses (real estate)
• pensions
• Merchandise, skills, expertise, etc.
• credit
• college education
• music
Study the timescale in the table belowFill the table with the items in the list above.
What their needs were
What they wanted to sell
Dominant country supplying
The early 1950s
The mid…
The late…
Mid 1960s
1980s and later
Recently
One possible solution
What their needs were
What they had to offer
Dominant country supplying
The early 1950s Toys, USA
The mid… Plastic models
The late… cameras Japan
1960s HIFI, college educationjobs
France
1980s and later Cheap carshouses
expertise Germany
Recently More expensive cars
Italy
Medical services
The musical scene: fathers of rockprogrammatic art
• Many of them. How many more? • Rock anthem Bill Haley’s „Rock Around the
Clock”, 1953/1954.– Pitiful failure of Hungarian radio presenters
• „Hunglish” Mistranslation • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zju6KbP_1xY
– What in the lyrics evidences a correct interpretation of the idiom/metaphor?
– How is the song programmatic?– What’s a kiss curl?
• Also credited to Chuck Berry
Rock around the ClockOne, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rockFive, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock rockNine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock rockWe're gonna rock around the clock tonight
Put your glad rags on and join me hon'We'll have some fun when the clock strikes oneWe're gonna rock around the clock tonightWe're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'till broad daylightWe're gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight
When the clock strikes two, three and fourIf the band slows down we'll yell for moreWe're gonna rock around the clock tonightWe're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'till broad daylight
We're gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight
When the chimes ring five, six, and sevenWe'll be right in seventh heavenWe're gonna rock around the clock tonightWe're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'till broad daylightWe're gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight
When it's eight, nine, ten, eleven tooI'll be goin' strong and so will youWe're gonna rock around the clock tonightWe're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'till broad daylightWe're gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight
When the clock strikes twelve we'll cool off thenStart rockin' 'round the clock againWe're gonna rock around the clock tonightWe're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'till broad daylightWe're gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight
More programmatic art: Chuck Berry
• Trained to be a barber
• „Roll Over Beethoven„ is not only a good song, but there was a message in it too– https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=kT3kCVFFLNg– What’s the difference between duck walk and goose
step?– What is this message? „Two interpretations in 1:”– What are the key idioms to carry that message?
• Viewing
Roll Over BeethovenI'm gonna write a little letter,Gonna mail it to my local DJIt's a rockin' rhythm record I want my jockey to playRoll over Beethoven, I gotta hear it again today
You know, my temperature's risin' And the jukebox blows a fuseMy heart's beatin' rhythm And my soul keeps on singin' the bluesRoll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news
I got the rockin' pneumonia, I need a shot of rhythm and bluesI think I'm rollin' arthritis Sittin' down by the rhythm reviewRoll over Beethoven rockin' in two by two.
Well, if you feel you like itGo get your lover, then reel and rock itRoll it over and move on up just
A trifle further and reel and rock it,Roll it over,Roll over Beethoven rockin' in two by two
Well, early in the mornin' I'm a-givin' you a warnin' Don't you step on my blue suede shoesHey diddle diddle, I am playin' my fiddle,Ain't got nothin' to loseRoll over Beethoven and tell Tchaikovsky the news
You know she wiggles like a glow worm,Dance like a spinnin' topShe got a crazy partner, Oughta see 'em reel and rockLong as she got a dime the music will never stop
Roll over Beethoven, *3
Roll over Beethoven and dig these rhythm and blues
Autobiographical• What can be achieved from
an experience of growing up behind the Iron Curtain?
• What claims can be made? – A perspective from behind
the Iron Curtain– Cca. 300 records on vynil,
CDs and tapes– Parents listening to Radio
Luxemburg in early ‘60s.• Terta rádió
How were Hungarians supposed to know?
• Status of English behind the iron Curtain?– my grandfather
• Hungarians, surprisingly, understood a lot even without English!– One of the chroniclers, Cseh Tamás
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldexUAVeEqA
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc2jByV8lqw
The planDate Content Other ideas 10 Sep Intro: the Baby-boom and its context Bill Haley, Chuck
Berry
17 Musical beginnings: The Shadows, Elvis The rise of the managers
24 The American scene. Songs like „Speedy Gonzales”. Blues and blues-based music, the British invasion.
BBC video 1
1 Oct California sound: The Doors, Jefferson Airplane Pyschedelia, early Pink Floyd Flower power, Steppenwolf
The Doors film by
8 The Beatles, the Cream, Hendrix, BBC video 2 15 The Rolling Stones
Janis Joplin I can get no statisfaction: Apocalypse now.
22 Hard rock 1: Led Zep and Deep Purple BBC video 3 29 Break 5 Hard rock 2: Black Sabbath and the decline of
industrial Britain Uriah Heep +influence on Hungarian Omega
BBC video 4
12 Progressive rock 1: Pink Floyd (middle and later years) +The Wall
19 Progressive rock 2: King Crimson and Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
26 Progressive rock 3 Yes and Emerson Lake and Palmer The influence of classical music.
3 Dec Minstrels and chroniclers: Dylan and Cohen Cseh Tamás, Zorán 10 Negotiating the marks
Homework • Musicians
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haley• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Berry
• The baby boom• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boom
– What’s the pig in the python in the text?– Typically how old were those influential among baby boomers
(look for some names in the text)? – What two main cohorts are distinguished between baby
boomers?
• Harmony and Handbook encyclopaedias– Haley and Chuck Berry entries
• Tricky words to explore: – Imperious, imperial, impervious– Magic eye, bull’s eye, cat’s eye