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What were the most popular albums
of the early 1960s?
The Sound of Music (1960)
Camelot (1961)
West Side Story (1962 & 1963)
Hello Dolly! (1964)
Mary Poppins (1965)
Why??
Influential Artists of the 1960s
• The Mamas and the
Papas
• Simon and Garfunkel
• Crosby, Stills and Nash
• Jimi Hendrix
• The Doors
• The Grateful Dead
• Jefferson Airplane
• The Beach Boys
• Janis Joplin
• The Band
• Creedence Clearwater
Revival
• Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Marvin Gaye
• Otis Redding
• The Supremes
• Bob Dylan
• The Who
Popular Genres of the 1960s
• Pop
• Rock ‘n’ Roll
– Psychedelic Rock
– Pop Rock
– Surf Rock
• Folk
• Funk & Soul began to rise in popularity
Bob Dylan
• Born Robert Allen Zimmerman, 1941
• Continued the tradition of Woody Guthrie and
Pete Seeger in order to chronicle social unrest
• Radicalized American folk music
– Defied conventions and influenced music by
mixing genres
• Blended stream of consciousness, imaginative
lyrics with traditional folk form
• “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (1965)
– Free association lyrics as a call back to Beat
poetry, also a forerunner to rap & hip-hop
The Beatles
“Beatlemania”!
• Came to the US 1964
• Changed attitudes about popular music in the
country
• 11 weeks after Kennedy’s assassination, the
group helped lift the country out of a deep
mourning
• Pioneered music videos, charity rock concerts,
musical art and animation
Dylan & The Beatles
• Influenced each other
– Dylan picked up the electric guitar
– The lyrics of the Beatles and Lennon’s singing voice
changed
• So much of the music of the 1960s was
characterized by this kind of cross-pollination
• Artists began mixing genres and techniques and
blurring boundaries like never before
How much of successful music depends on
complete originality vs. this kind of
blending/collaboration?
Your Task…
• You and a partner of your choosing will be creating a
“found poem” that captures the ideals of the
counterculture movements we have been discussing in
class
• Your poem must be at least 20 lines long and come
from a minimum of 10 different songs
• Your poem will be accompanied by a short paragraph
explaining how your product is representative of the
counterculture movement