tailieunhanh - The Hippie Aesthetic: Cultural Positioning and Musical Ambition in Early Progressive Rock

The earlier in the process a student reaches the main idea, the better the structural principle is challenged. Lessons from the experiment suggest that getting a main idea and utility properties reconciled is a challenge that encourages students so that they will have a better drive in the process than students who work from a context adjustment solely. Reflection on the formgiving process was supported by a theoretical division into form elements. This was also used in discussion of a form’s weakness and strength with respect to the design specification. Both the leading features and the form elements were also. | JOHN COVACH The Hippie Aesthetic Cultural Positioning and Musical Ambition in Early Progressive Rock This study takes its part of departure from two problems that regularly recur in historical accounts of rock music. The first problem consists of a strong tendency among many writers to neglect much mainstream rock from the Seventies often to focus on the rise of punk and its transformation into new wave in the second half of the decade or perhaps also to chronicle the emergence of disco and the strong reactions to it. Bands such as Led Zeppelin the Allman Brothers Elton John the Eagles and many others are frequently mentioned only in passing while highly successful progressive rock bands such as Jethro Tull Emerson Lake Palmer and Yes are neglected almost The second problem is that rock music from the 1966-69 period--frequently referred to as psychedelic music--is often kept separate from the mainstream Seventies rock that follows. There is even a tendency on the part of some writers to view early Seventies as a period of decline for rock resulting in a celebration of psychedelia without much consideration of its clear musical affect on the rock that These two tendencies result in unbalanced historical accounts of rock that not only leave out much of the music many listeners today associate with classic rock but also miss some of the important larger themes in the development of the style as a One historical thread that can be traced almost all the way back to rock s earliest days in the mid-Fifties is the theme of musical ambition--the idea that pop can aspire to be better or more sophisticated kind of music by employing techniques and approaches often borrowed from other styles like classical and jazz to make pop more interesting and original. In the second half of the Sixties the musical ambition increasingly evident in a series of recordings by Leiber and Stoller Phil Spector The Beatles and the Beach Boys begins to coalesce into .