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Friday, September 17, 1971
University Daily Kansan
Music: A Mirror of Social Revolution
By JEFF KENNEDY
Kansan Staff Writer
Music has always been a sign of the times. Anthems, elations, harmonies, and so on have each us has felt have been communicated widely through the lyrical poetry and haunting soundscapes that has created an interest in music unparalleled in history. We are not only fortunate to hear our clock-rays awaken us in the morning until our dust covers go back on our turnables.
If there is anything noteworthy about the music of our generation it is that it has become the musical foundation we were once set by aging composers and formally trained instrumentalists who were well out of the throngs of youth. With a new generation of rock stars, Ellington, Frank Sinatra, the late Louis Armstrong and Leonard Bernstein the most important musical contributions of recent years have been made by the
NEARLY ALL of the important writers and performers today pay their dues in the sixties and seventies, and many are the veterans of the San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, and Los Angeles groups, grudging months on the road and borrowed equipment and of a few other musicians. Hair, strange clothing, drugs and sexual freedom. Rock musicians have been in the vanguard of the music scene.
It is impossible to assess what kind of impact major figures like
BOD YLAN is in a class by himself Dylan's unique style of phrasing and intonation opened new realms of vocal possibilities that allowed him to be a successful singers. His poetry popularized a level of consciousness that continues to influence contemporary anyone who is into rock music who did not at some point in his life listen to Dylan albums religiously Dylan reigns as the king of the pop songs of the six
Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Alexis Korner, the Beatles and Bob Dylan have had on contemporary music and dance. Redding did much to develop the vocal and instrumental styles that are standard today. Korner led the way in London, inspiring the sort of blues-rock that the Stones and Jon Mayall are known
While Dylan was the detached oracle, the Beatles were everyone's band and top music makers. They moved in society and in their own lives that were伤 by others. Their progression from pretty to more mature and bold was of dissatisfaction into the "Sit Pepper" world of drugs and alienation continued into the mainstream, and the increasingly representative of four individuals instead of the collective Beatles. Their empathy with other people made a statement made their breakup inevitable and in some ways desirable. Each of them has been affected by this statement and they all present an enjoyable
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musical package for different reasons. Their lives and careers are the model of the types of rock music undergone. The changes have meant a great deal to the nature of rock music in the last two decades.
POPULAR MUSIC has needed all the stability it could get during the blues era. The Woodstock deteriorated into the horror of Altamont and this
Sheer electrical power and loudness outweighed quality in the minds of record buyers and conglomerators. The ridiculous greed of several elite musicians has caused a decadence of rock music caused Bill Graham to throw in his soiled towel and close the Fillmore.
Perhaps the saddest reality of rock was that it had grown stale. Grand Funk Railroad, Led Zeppelin, the Jerry Grace-Garcia Slack Dusty Crowd clique and too many attempts to be interrupting by bury rock and roll in a grave of banality. Only the efforts of people like Chicago, Miles Davis, the Band, Joel Tull, Frank Furniture, Kissek kept the whole scene from becoming as boring as an evening of TV.
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THE CURSE of banality seems to be easing as the era of the troubadour grows.
The same introspection which forced the Beatles to separate
and seek more personal statements and which has allowed each of us to examine his music in a new way. Our music to a more personal level.
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