Module 6 Intro

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摇滚史，第二部分

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University of Rochester

摇滚史，第二部分

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This course, part 2 of a 2-course sequence, examines the history of rock, primarily as it unfolded in the United States, from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. This course covers the music of Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers, Carole King, Bob Marley, the Sex Pistols, Donna Summer, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, Metallica, Run-DMC, and Nirvana, and many more artists, with an emphasis both on cultural context and on the music itself. We will also explore how developments in the music business and in technology helped shape the ways in which styles developed. Emerging out of the experimental and ambitious years of late-60s psychedelia, rock splintered into a variety of styles in the 1970s as the music business continued to expand. By the end of the decade, punk and disco had challenged the excesses of the hippie aesthetic, as rock became more commercially streamlined and radio friendly. The emergence and rise of MTV transformed pop music and propelled the careers of Michael jackson and Madonna, while heavy metal and hip hop dominated the late 1980s. Nirvana leads alt-rock's return to simplicity in the early 1990s.

从本节课中

Alternative Rock, Rock Alternatives, and Widening Gaps (the 1990s)

The growth of "classic rock" and the development of the history-of-rock awareness. A survey of artists as they relate to earlier trends in the history of rock, including teen idols, hip-hop, 60s-influenced rock, female singer-songwriters, dance music, indie rock, and heavy metal. [Read Chapters 13 and 14 and work through listening guides and dedicated video.]

Module 6 Intro3:28

The Rise of Alternative14:39

与讲师见面

John Covach
Professor of Music and Director
Institute for Popular Music

This week, we talk about the history of rock music in the 1990s.

And as we begin this week, our final week of part two

of this course, I think it's important to take just a minute

to understand the kind of challenges that face us when we talk about relatively

recent music in trying to gain some sense of historical perspective.

As we get to the 90s, it's more difficult than it has been so far,

because it's the era that's closest to us, and in many ways,

from a historical point of view, the dust hasn't really settled on

that scene enough for us to get the clearest possible picture.

Although, every year, as I teach this, of course, it gets clearer, and clearer, and

now I think we're starting to get the beginnings of a pretty clear picture.

So, the way I'm going to approach this week is with no claims that I'm giving

the same kind of historical survey that we did before.

But rather, I'm going to look at the 90s for

continuing threads that take us from the 70s, from the 80s, into the 90s.

So there's some of those for us to follow into the 1990s.

I want to also talk a bit about styles that come up in the 90s, but remind us of

things that we've already studied during the course of part one and part two.

And so we see things happening in the 90s that in many ways

we've seen happening before.

So what we're going to do this week is, we're going to connect the emerging styles

in the 90s to the previously studied ones, as I said before.

We'll follow styles as they develop out of the 1980s,

so the kinds of things we've been talking about in the last couple of weeks.

We'll note the rise of the phenomenon of rock history.

This really starts to happen in the 1990s, and

is one of the reasons why we can have a course like this way.

People like me have been able to teach courses in universities, and

even high schools for the last couple of decades.

It's really just historical awareness really starts to arise in the 1990s.

And we'll talk about that.

And then we also have to understand

the multigenerational nature that starts to happen in the 90s,

where we'll start to see an artist from the 60s, artists from the 70s, and

artists from the 80s all remain active at the same time, and so

you get this sort of layering of different age groups, different demographics.

All part of the rock scene beginning in the 90s.

Of course, that continues even to the present day.

So as I said just a minute ago, the artists and

the bands that you hear me talk about here really are representatives.

And a different person doing this,

or me doing it a year from now might change, different artists to represent.

And if you don't hear bands or artists from the 90s that you think should

have been mentioned, all I'm really trying to do is give a survey picture here.

And so if you don't hear the band that is your favorite band or

one that you think is important, just fill in the gaps for yourself as you go there.

And keep your eye on the bigger picture.

So, let's follow one of those strands that comes out of the 80s.

In our next lecture, we'll now turn to the rise of alternative rock.

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