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Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel first began their collaborative career as Tom and Jerry with the moderately successful single ''Hey, Schoolgirl'' in 1957, a track that brought the teenagers onto American Bandstand. <ref> "AB-87: Tom & Jerry (Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel)". <u> American Bandstand </u>. 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.tv.com/american-bandstand/ab-87-tom-and-jerry-paul-simon-and-art-garfunkel/episode/93469/summary.html>. </ref> In the early 60's, however, Simon began composing songs that gravitated towards the sounds and messages of the burgeoning folk genre. The resultant album, ''Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.'', contained three songs that "reeked of folk music": "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dreams", "You Can Tell the World", "He Was My Brother", and a cover of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'". <ref> Pollock, Bruce. <u> When The Music Mattered: Rock in the 1960's </u>. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984. 67. </ref>
  
 
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Revision as of 20:40, 2 September 2008

Summary

Folk Music

Origins

Causal Factors:

  • growing social consciousness
  • Kennedy
  • Mass conformity of 1950s in face of a Russian Threat
  • Disenchantment with false promises
  • Growing racial tensions
  • Repercussions and Implications of WWII

Goals of the Movement:

  • Social Equality
  • Freedom (Political and Racial)
  • Democracy
  • Peace

Chronology

  • 1958: Kingston Trio releases "Tom Dooley" [1]
  • 1961: Joan Baez releases "Joan Baez, Vol. 2" [2]
  • 1962: Bob Dylan releases "Bob Dylan" [3]
    Pete Seeger releases "The Bitter and The Sweet", which contains the folk anthem Where Have All the Flowers Gone? [4]
    Peter, Paul and Mary release "Peter, Paul and Mary" [5]
  • 1963: Bob Dylan releases "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" [6]
    Dylan refuses to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show when he was prohibited from performing "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" [7]
    Peter, Paul and Mary release "Moving" and "In the Wind" [8]
  • 1964: Bob Dylan releases "The Times They Are A'Changin'" and "Another Side of Bob Dylan" [9]
    During the week of April 4, The Beatles hold top five spots on Billboard's singles chart [10]
    Joan Baez releases "Joan Baez in San Francisco" [11]
    Simon and Garfunkel release "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." [12]
  • 1965: Bob Dylan releases "Bringing It All Back Home" [13], his first recording with electric instruments
    Joan Baez launches "Farewell, Angelina" [14]
    Pete Seeger hosts a television show, Rainbow Quest, devoted to showcasing folk music
    Bob Dylan releases "Highway 61 Revisited" [15]
    Peter, Paul and Mary release "A Song Will Rise" and "See What Tomorrow Brings" [16]
  • 1966: Simon and Garfunkel's single Sounds of Silence reaches number one on the pop charts [17]
    Simon and Garfunkel release "Sounds of Silence"
    Simon and Garfunkel release "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme" [18]
    Bob Dylan Releases "Blonde on Blonde" [19]
  • 1967: Peter, Paul and Mary release "Album 1700" [20]
  • 1968: Simon and Garfunkel release the soundtrack to The Graduate
    Simon and Garfunkel release "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M." [21]
  • 1969: Peter, Paul and Mary release "Peter, Paul and Mommy" [22]
  • 1970: Simon and Garfunkel release their last album as a duo, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" [23]
    Bob Dylan releases "New Morning" [24]

Significant People:

Bob Dylan

bob_dylan.jpg
You better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone,

For the times, they are a-changing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgECKj9LSH4&feature=related

After a high-school stint in a rock & roll band in his home state of Minnesota, he grew fascinated with folk music and the coffeehouse protest scene. Dylan dreamt of going to Greenwich Village in New York, the "folkies' mecca" to follow in the footsteps of his idol, Woody Guthrie. [25] In 1961, after dropping out of college, Dylan arrived in New York City, where he lived with folk musician Dave Van Ronk and his wife, Terri, who landed him his first paid gig. [26] Dylan described his early repertoire as "hard-core folk songs backed by incessantly loud strumming [...] There were a lot of better singers and better musicians around these places but there wasn't anybody close in nature to what I was doing." [27] He was signed to Columbia records and released his first album in 1962. [28] Unfazed by the limited success of Bob Dylan, he recorded another album--one that marked his emergence as a writer. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan provided the growing protest movement with a youthful anthem (Blowin' In The Wind), a pacifistic warning "against Eisenhower's military-industrial complex" (Masters of War) [29], a love song (Girl Of The North Country), a heartbroken tale of rejection (Don't Think Twice, It's All Right), and an eerie premonition (A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall). [30] The album marked the beginning of a new era in popular folk music: a liberation from formalized rigidity, while still maintaining a strong connection with tradition. The music appealed to rebellious liberal leftist intellectuals who were striving to make sense of the chaos that raged throughout their world at the time. For the youthful generation that was "questioning with unparalleled ferocity that supposed purity of their authority figures [...] Dylan became a role model, a mouthpiece, a poet laureate. Suddenly poetry became commercial" and captured the sympathy of a new, educated generation ready to break away from the established society. [31]

Simon and Garfunkel

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And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains,

Within the sound of silence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZGWQauQOAQ

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel first began their collaborative career as Tom and Jerry with the moderately successful single Hey, Schoolgirl in 1957, a track that brought the teenagers onto American Bandstand. [32] In the early 60's, however, Simon began composing songs that gravitated towards the sounds and messages of the burgeoning folk genre. The resultant album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., contained three songs that "reeked of folk music": "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dreams", "You Can Tell the World", "He Was My Brother", and a cover of Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'". [33]

Peter, Paul and Mary

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It's the hammer of Justice; it's the bell of Freedom

It's the song about Love between my brothers and sisters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiMve1ggjnI

Pete Seeger

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Where have all the flowers gone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhlOJm9nkwM

Joan Baez

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Show me the country where the bombs had to fall

Show me the ruins of the buildings once so tall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfKclOiR_9s

Joni Mitchell

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If you hear a politician or a singer making song

Do you just refuse to listen, knowing he must be wrong?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qC7Ls6ixJQ

Outcomes/Long Term Effects on U.S. Culture:

Rock and Roll

Origins

  • causal factors
  • goals

Chronology:

  • Significant events & actions
  • watershed moments
  • turning points and phases of the organization

Significant People:

  • individuals both inside the organization and out who impacted it’s course

Outcomes/Long Term Effects on U.S. Culture:

References:

  1. ↑ "The Kingston Trio". The Kingston Trio . 22 Aug. 2005. 1 Sept. 2008 <http://www.kingstontrio.com/content/the_trio1.htm>.
  2. ↑ "Joan Baez: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/joanbaez/discography>.
  3. ↑ "Bob Dylan: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobdylan/discography>.
  4. ↑ Pollock, Bruce. When the Music Mattered: Rock in the 1960's . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984.
  5. ↑ "Peter, Paul and Mary: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 29 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/peterpaulandmary/discography>.
  6. ↑ "Bob Dylan: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobdylan/discography>.
  7. ↑ Simon, Ron. "The Ed Sullivan Show". The Museum of Broadcast Communications . 29 Nov. 2007. 2 Sept. 2008 <http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/E/htmlE/edsullivans/edsullivans.htm>.
  8. ↑ "Peter, Paul and Mary: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 29 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/peterpaulandmary/discography>.
  9. ↑ "Bob Dylan: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobdylan/discography>.
  10. ↑ "Worldwide Charts." The Beatles' Record Sales . 2005. 1 Sept. 2008 <http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/the-beatles-record-sales,-worldwide-charts/worldwide-charts.html>.
  11. ↑ "Joan Baez: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/joanbaez/discography>.
  12. ↑ "Simon and Garfunkel: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/simonandgarfunkel/discography>.
  13. ↑ "Bob Dylan: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobdylan/discography>.
  14. ↑ "Joan Baez: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/joanbaez/discography>.
  15. ↑ "Bob Dylan: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobdylan/discography>.
  16. ↑ "Peter, Paul and Mary: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 29 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/peterpaulandmary/discography>.
  17. ↑ "Number One Hits: 1966". The Menzies Era . 2 Sept. 2008. 2 Sept. 2008 <http://www.menziesera.com/number_1_hits/1966.shtml>.
  18. ↑ "Simon and Garfunkel: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/simonandgarfunkel/discography>.
  19. ↑ "Bob Dylan: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobdylan/discography>.
  20. ↑ "Peter, Paul and Mary: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 29 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/peterpaulandmary/discography>.
  21. ↑ "Simon and Garfunkel: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/simonandgarfunkel/discography>.
  22. ↑ "Peter, Paul and Mary: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 29 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/peterpaulandmary/discography>.
  23. ↑ "Simon and Garfunkel: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/simonandgarfunkel/discography>.
  24. ↑ "Bob Dylan: Discography". Rolling Stone . 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobdylan/discography>.
  25. ↑ Pascall, Jeremy. The Illustrated History of Rock Music . New York: Galahad Books, 1978. 132.
  26. ↑ Pollock, Bruce. When the Music Mattered: Rock in the 1960's . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. 23.
  27. ↑ Dylan, Bob. Chronicles . New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004. 17.
  28. ↑ Pascall, Jeremy. The Illustrated History of Rock Music . New York: Galahad Books, 1978. 132.
  29. ↑ Gundersen, Edna. "Dylan is positively on top of his game." USA Today . 10 Sept. 2001. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/2001-09-10-bob-dylan.htm#more>.
  30. ↑ Pascall, Jeremy. The Illustrated History of Rock Music . New York: Galahad Books, 1978. 133.
  31. ↑ Pollock, Bruce. When the Music Mattered: Rock in the 1960's . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. 25.
  32. ↑ "AB-87: Tom & Jerry (Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel)". American Bandstand . 2008. 28 Aug. 2008 <http://www.tv.com/american-bandstand/ab-87-tom-and-jerry-paul-simon-and-art-garfunkel/episode/93469/summary.html>.
  33. ↑ Pollock, Bruce. When The Music Mattered: Rock in the 1960's . New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984. 67.

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