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The new music

The new music was built out of materials already in existence: blues, rock’n’roll, folk music.
But although the forms remained, something wholly new and original was made out of these
older elements - more original, perhaps, than even the new musicians themselves yet realize.
The transformation took place in 1966-7. Up to that time, the blues had been an essentially
black medium. Rock’n’roll, a blues derivative, was rhythmic, raunchy, teen-age dance music.
Folk music, old and modern, was popular among college students. The three forms remained
musically and culturally distinct, and even as late as 1965, none of them were expressing any
radically new states of consciousness. Blues expressed black soul; rock, as made famous by
Elvis Presley, was the beat of youthful sensuality; and folk music, with such singers as Joan
Baez, expressed anti-war sentiments as well as the universal themes of love and
disillusionment.
In 1966-7 there was a spontaneous transformation. In the United States, it originated with
youthful rock groups playing in San Francisco. In England, it was led by the Beatles, who
were already established as an extremely fine and highly individual rock group. What
happened, as well as it can be put into words, was this. First, the separate musical traditions
were brought together. Bob Dylan and the Jefferson Airplane played folk rock, folk ideas with

a rock beat. White rock groups began experimenting with the blues. Of course, white
musicians had always played the blues, but essentially as imitators of the Negro style; now it
began to be the white bands’ own music. And all of the groups moved towards a broader
eclecticism and synthesis. They freely took over elements from Indian ragas, from jazz, from
American country music, and as time went on from even more diverse sources (one group
seems recently to have been trying out Gregorian chants). What developed was a protean
music, capable fan almost limitless range of expression.
The second thing that happened was that all the musical groups began using the full range of
electric instruments and the technology of electronic amplifiers. The twangy electric guitar
was an old country-western standby, but the new electronic effects were altogether different -
so different that a new listener in 1967 might well feel that there had never been any sounds
like that in the world before. The high, piercing, unearthly sounds of the guitar seemed to
come from other realms. Electronics did, in fact, make possible sounds that no instrument up
to that time could produce. And in studio recordings, multiple tracking, feedback and other
devices made possible effects that not even an electronic band could produce live. Electronic
amplification also made possible a fantastic increase in volume, the music becoming as loud
and penetrating as the human ear could stand, and thereby achieving a ‘total’ effect, so that
instead fan audience of passive listeners, there were now audiences of total participants,
feeling the music in all of their senses and all of their bones.
Third, the music becomes a multi-media experience; a part of a total environment. In the Bay
Area ballrooms, the Fillmore, the Avalon, or Pauley Ballroom at the University of California,
the walls were covered with fantastic changing patterns of light, the beginning of the new art
of the light show. And the audience did not sit, it danced. With records at home, listeners
imitated these lighting effects as best they could, and heightened the whole experience by
using drugs. Often music was played out of doors, where nature - the sea or tall redwoods -
provided the environment.
(From The Greening of America by Charles Reich)

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In the period 1966-7, three separate kinds of music - folk, rock and blues - were brought together, and influences from other traditions, for example, Indian, were added, to make a much more complex sort of music expressing new attitudes. Electronic devices were used to give music a new sound: it became much louder, and was associated with lighting effects. This, and the use of drugs, made the audience feel that they were not just listening passively, but participating in a 'total experience'.

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