The sixties was an exciting, influential and inventive period for popular music. The skirts were shorter, the hair longer and the younger generation liberated from the prim and proper attitudes of the decade before. Typically the music reflected this idea of counterculture, artists ignited rebellion and began to stand up to the establishment culture. Protest songs such as "God On Our Side" - Bob Dylan, "Give Peace A Chance" - John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band and "A Change Is Gonna Come" - Sam Cooke, sent out a message that was readily accepted.
My group is considering taking a modern song and putting a 60's spin on it - completely changing the song so that it fits into a popular 60's genre, we were thinking Motown. This reminded me of a band I like called 'The Baseballs', who take modern songs and re-invent them as a barbershop quartet in a 50's style! Ready for next lesson I began researching the typical conventions of 60's motown music so that we can assess what we want to replicate in our work.
My group is considering taking a modern song and putting a 60's spin on it - completely changing the song so that it fits into a popular 60's genre, we were thinking Motown. This reminded me of a band I like called 'The Baseballs', who take modern songs and re-invent them as a barbershop quartet in a 50's style! Ready for next lesson I began researching the typical conventions of 60's motown music so that we can assess what we want to replicate in our work.
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