A new musical center (San Francisco) and aesthetic emerges in American pop music, flying in the face of music business conventions and signaling the advent of a new vision of youth culture (“counter-culture”) and a new era for rock music.
From Mama Cass through Jimi Hendrix, Grace Slick and Jerry Garcia, California was a microcosm of the tumultuous decade of the 1960s.
This course, in four 1 ½ hour lectures, will examine the cultural expansions, listen to the music, and re-create the decade which reacted in so many ways against the United States of the 1950s and before.