MUS 354 Part 2 Facts Exam CH 9-10
When did the heterogeneity of rock become very apparent? - correct answer
✔in the latter part of the 60s, as rock became the dominant popular music and
simultaneously went in several different directions, musically and
geographically.
how may we perceive the geographic diversity of rock? - correct answer ✔2
ways:
1. is to note the numerous regional dialects of rock that surfaced in the sixties:
in the United States, there was surf music from southern California, soul
music from Memphis, Motown from Detroit, and southern rock from the
Southeast.
-More significantly, rock became the first truly
international popular music with the rise of the
British bands. Their music added several
dialects to the musical language that was rock.
2. to observe the activity within a geographical region; during the latter part of
the sixties, one good place to do this was the San Francisco Bay Area-- home
not only to several important acid rock bands, but also to Santana's Latin rock,
Sly and the Family Stone's proto-funk, Creedence Clearwater Revival's all-
American rock, and more
Describe the worldview of those who came of age in the latter part of the 60s -
correct answer ✔-didn't have to deal with the WWII, Korean War, or Great
Depression
,-grew up in a time of economic security, were also less affected by the
McCarthy witchhunt than older children and their parents
-• A sizable and vocal segment of these young people rejected the values of
the group they pejoratively called the "establishment." They saw the
establishment as excessively conservative, bigoted, materialistic, resistant to
social change, obsessed with communism and locked into a potentially deadly
arms race, and clueless about sexuality.
-Fueled by new technologies and drugs—both old and new—they incited the
most far-reaching social revolution since the twenties.
what were the four main issues for the college-aged youth of the latter 60s? -
correct answer ✔minority rights, sexual freedom, drug use, and war.
-as a generation that grew up with rock and roll, R&B, and jazz, they couldn't
comprehend the discrimination and oppression faced by black Americans
commercial production of the Pill began when? - correct answer ✔in the
early 60s; spurred on the feminist revival
explain the rise of drug culture in the 60s - correct answer ✔the recreational
use of mind-altering drugs spread to large segments of the middle class.
Previously, drug use had been confined to small subcultures: for example,
many jazz musicians in the post-World War II era were heroin addicts.
Marijuana, always a popular drug among musicians and minorities, became
the most popular drug of the sixties among young people, and especially the
counterculture. However, the signature drug of the sixties was D-lysergic acid
diethylamide.
,LSD - correct answer ✔developed in 1938 by Albert Hoffman, a Swiss
chemist; Hoffman discovered its psychedelic properties by accident about five
years later.
-Originally, psychiatrists used it therapeutically, and during the Cold War,
intelligence agencies in the United States and Great Britain apparently ran
tests to determine whether the drug was useful for mind control.
-The key figures in moving LSD from the lab to the street were two Harvard
psychology professors: Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. They felt that the
mind-expanding capabilities of the drug should be open to anyone; in reaction,
Sandoz, Dr. Hofmann's chemical firm, stopped freely supplying scientists with
the drug, and the US government banned its use in 1967. Underground use of
the drug has continued despite this ban.
What replaced civil rights as the hot-button issue for young people in the late
60s? - correct answer ✔Vietnam
explain the circumstances surrounding the Vietnam War - correct answer ✔•
In 1954, Vietnam, formerly French Indo-China, was divided—like Korea—into
two regions: the north received support from the USSR and communist China,
while the southern region received the support of western nations, especially
the United States. A succession of presidents saw a military presence in
South Vietnam as a necessary buffer against communist aggression.
• As a result, US military involvement gradually escalated over the next
decade. Finally, in 1965, the government began sending regular troops to
Vietnam to augment the special forces already there.
• This provoked a hostile reaction, especially from those eligible to be drafted.
Many recoiled at the prospect of fighting in a war that seemed pointless; a few
fled to Canada or elsewhere to avoid the draft. Massive antiwar
demonstrations became as much a part of the news during the late sixties as
the civil rights demonstrations were in the first part of the decade.
, o The lies and deceptions of the government and military, which among other
things reassured the American people that the war was winnable and that the
US forces were winning, coupled with news reports of horrific events such as
the My Lai massacre, in which US soldiers killed close to 500 unarmed
civilians in a small village, further eroded support for the war.
As a result from the movements of the 60s, what do we enjoy today? - correct
answer ✔ideas and practices that seemed radical at mid century—such as
multiculturalism, and equal opportunity in the workplace—are accepted norms
in contemporary society.
describe hippies - correct answer ✔• A small but prominent minority of young
people chose to reject mainstream society completely.
• They followed Timothy Leary's advice to "turn on, tune in, drop out."
• They were the ideological heirs of the Bohemians of nineteenth-century
Europe and the Beats of the late forties and fifties; collectively they formed the
heart of the counterculture.
Around which geographical area did the counterculture coalesce? - correct
answer ✔Throughout the sixties, the San Francisco Bay Area was a center
for radical thought and action. The free speech movement led by Mario Savio
got started at the Berkeley campus of the University of California in 1964; it
led to confrontations between student protesters and university administrators
over student rights and academic freedom.
-generally followed a less confrontational path than the Panthers
-their mecca was SF; their Kaaba was Haight-Ashbury, near Golden Gate
Park, the largest public park in the city.
-Became a destination for those who wanted to "make love, not war" and
travel the fast route to higher consciousness by tripping on psychedelic drugs.
