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Ill even omit my customary lame professor humor about the ncaa tournament, for example, thats how serious this is. Lets think for a minute though about where were situated, what were working on here. In this last third of the course that we started last week, were dealing with the post revolutionary era. Weve built this idea that something radical and transformative happens to music nick the 1960s. You worked hard over the course of several weeks to establish those ideas. And we cant leave witho...

All right. I have a Staggering Number of powerpoint slides for this. Get your bets down now on whether i can get through them or not. I will even omit my customary lame professor humor, about the ncaa tournament, for example. Thats how serious this is. Lets think for a minute, though, about where were situated, what were working on here. In this last third of the course that we started last week, were dealing with the postrevolutionary era. Weve built this idea that something radical and transfo...

Postrevolutionary era. Weve built this idea that something radicaand transformative happened to music in the 1960s. Weve worked hard over the course of several weeks to establish those ideas. And we cant leave it, though, just as a kind of baby boomer nostalgia for the days that were. What weve been trying to deal with is this sense of pervasive disappointment, that the revolution somehow ended in the early 1970s. The popular music became a disappointment, aesthetically, politically. Thats the c...

Dr. Mcgerr good afternoon. Here we go. Hope you are doing well. This is almost too nice a day for education. I have a Staggering Number of powerpoint slides for this. Get your bets down now on whether i can get through them or not. Ill omit my customary professor humor, about the ncaa tournament, for example. Thats how serious this is. Lets think for a minute, though, about where were situated, what were working on here. In this last third of the course that we started last week, were dealing wi...

Great pleasure to root talk with katherine who is roaming around our great nation promoting her new book. Then schaede the way we talk about abortion rights today and changing hearts and minds. I went like to invite her to read for a bit then we will have a discussion if there is time we will take a few questions from the audience. Ere on this beautiful but rather warm day. I am going to read the introduction to this book which is called pro reclaiming abortion rights because it gives you a tast...

Just as a kind of baby boomer nostalgia for the days that were. What weve been trying to deal with is this sense of pervasive disappointment, that the revolution somehow ended in the early 1970s. The popular music became a disappointment, aesthetically, politically. Thats the cliche. We saw plenty of evidence for it. What weve been trying to do is to say ok. Maybe if we shift perspective, maybe if we dont simply buy the assumptions that went into the age of countercultural music, if we do that, ...

Energy from to do all this. And the only thing that i can really say is i look at the world through the eyes of my children. And i have to i personally have to make it better for me. And i have to make it better for my wife, and i have to make the world better for my kids. My firstborn son, jackson, a year and a half ago, gave us our first grandchild. And youd better watch out for this one because shes a kick ass. I know every grandfather says the same thing, but shes a stunning woman. My second...

Let me see here. We have to change this. Uhoh. Im a very simple man. And im totally serious about that. Im not a clever musician. I hardly know, you know, anything about the piano or the guitar, but i know what i need to say. And this song is for you all. This is the one i finished at 4 30 in the morning and sang that night. Its called here for you. Im here for you just look at what weve been through together all these years im here for you through all the laughter and through all the tears im b...

Liberation movement, bound up in music such as glam rock, david bowie, lou reed, bound up in disco. As we said, in a sense, that music was inherently political. Something that the really vicious antidisco campaign drove home. So it seems to me weve started building the idea that post60s, American Music still is politicized, still is engaged but in a different way, a way that rejected, as we saw with david bowie or we saw with hoople, that rejected countercultural rock. Thats where i want to go t...

Thats where i want to go today in talking, as i promised, about issues of women in popular music in the 1970s. Weve already dealt with this before in thinking about the very limited place accorded to women in popular music as a business, as performers really with the idea that women play instruments, that they could only sing. Weve seen thats deeply embedded in western culture, western ideas. And yet this is a period in the 1970s of real change in thinking about women. So theres an opportunity f...