Lucy Nevin

[Lucy Nevin @ln368]

@MUSC117Fall2022 As society/science progresses, we can't ignore the inevitable bond between man & machine. Using advanced technology to emit an artists' desired sound "has implications for how both poles in the relationship are being reconfigured through the process of their fusion" (Auner, 101).

[Lucy Nevin @ln368]

@MUSC117Fall2022 "Speaking what's unspoken," (3:20) or rather, screaming out what's unspoken, is exactly what Bikini Kill aimed to do. With her vibrant energy that exuded "revolution," men and women alike couldn't ignore the bigger picture she was portraying; women are beyond just as capable.

[Lucy Nevin @ln368]

@MUSC117Fall2022 The era of punk promoted DIY music and training. Cobain was such a talented musician, the reason he said "Learn not to play your instrument" (73) was to recognize the punk roots; a scene full of inclusivity, grunge, political rejection, three chords, and "reformation" (77).

[Lucy Nevin @ln368]

@MUSC117Fall2022 I loved how you took the consumerism into your own hands and made your music accessible, charging very little to come see you play live. As talented artists, you deserved to be paid. Were there times when it was hard to separate the success and money from the love of your art?

[Lucy Nevin @ln368]

@MUSC117Fall2022 The Replacements were inherent "clowns," actively fighting to reject professionalism. This free-for-all, careless attitude is heard in the songs we listened to on the album "Let It Be," where no two songs were alike. Each song was an individual style, as was each band member.

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@MUSC117Fall2022 https://t.co/naXIkjrXBX
Collen quotes Joe Elliott, talking about how Phil Lewis captured aspects of David Bowie's softness, stood out in the way they dressed like "true rockstars," and separated themselves from other bands like Def Leppard. They were authentic, yet performative.

[Lucy Nevin @ln368]

@MUSC117Fall2022 The Fall and Joy Division both used their Manchester white-collar, working class backgrounds to influence their music and force their listeners to acknowledge industrialism and the effects it has on the "human existence"(103). Drugs/pharmacies were included in this industrialism.

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@MUSC117Fall2022 Crowe writes that the release of the first Boston album in 1976 was the biggest debut release in rock music history. Record companies were supposed to be the ones to make the records huge, however, Boston did it all on their own, speaking to their audiences in understated ways.

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@MUSC117Fall2022 "It is basically the way in which commodities are used in subculture which mark the subculture off from more orthodox cultural formations" (103). The ways Funkadelic and Bowie dressed relayed deviancy, yet method to create a subculture that their fans understood and appreciated.

[Lucy Nevin @ln368]

@MUSC117Fall2022 Big Star reminds me of Nick Drake in this documentary in how there was so much talent that wasn't received as graciously as it should have been. Despite the great reviews in all the big music papers, Big Star didn't gain traction until later, just like in Nick Drake's situation.

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@MUSC117Fall2022 Reynolds writes, "Caring about image or putting on a show was seen as juvenile, square, commercial" (4). The personas rock artists began to portray in the 1970's like David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" had huge impacts on audiences and demolished the idea that this was amateur.

[Lucy Nevin @ln368]

@MUSC117Fall2022 Rothstein compares the romanticism of music with that of other art forms like poetry, specifically Wordsworth. Being a ballerina, I can relate the feelings exhibited through music and poetry with romanticism in dance, similarly the grandeur, swooping, longing, yet humble moves.

[Lucy Nevin @ln368]

@MUSC117Fall2022 One of the celebrated elements of the new Rock and Roll music industry was the authentic individuality of the lead singer. Mic Jagger doesn't have the pitch perfect vocals as Sinatra did, but it was his performance ability, style, dance moves, and personality that drew people in.

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@MUSC117Fall2022 Pareles writes, "Woodstock showed people who had considered themselves “freaks” that they weren’t as small a minority as they had thought". For anyone who felt like they didn't fit in, rock and roll had a place for them. There was freedom and unity in being "different."

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@MUSC117Fall2022 Keir writes, "Rock culture embraces authentic success as a validation of artistic quality" (132). The Beatles are embraced as a success in R&R culture because of their experimental expansion within the genre, particularly branching out in "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".

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@MUSC117Fall2022 https://t.co/0Ydd1T7IRl
Landau mentions how William "Smokey" Robinson was one of the first artists to enter the Motown scene. Motown was a way for black artists to make it to the pop charts. Today, Smokey Robinson continues to embellish the evolving music industry! See below!

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@MUSC117Fall2022 Bunzel opens this topic with the tragic story of B.J. Killion murdering his mother in 1958 because she said he could not watch Dick Clark's "American Bandstand" (125). This reminds me of our discussion in class regarding teenagers feeling unheard and dismissed in society: rebel!

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@MUSC117Fall2022 With the combination of public image and knowledge of their consumer base, music of many genres was exposed to the public and the youthful ears of teenagers that propelled the music industry to a level of greater success and wealth.

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@MUSC117Fall2022 Crawford mentions, "Some disc jockeys ("deejays") gained a following as personalities and superfans of the genres they played on the air. They made themselves experts in the thing that broadcasters valued most: a knowledge of their audience's preferences as consumers" (721).