The Seventies: Martin Mcdonagh And Andrew J. Edelstein

In the 1950s, when rock was developed, one of the first groups to drift to it was teenagers, being attracted to its themes of rebellion and non conformity. Certain groups of individuals have sprung up around certain musical styles. For instance, punk, techno, and ethnic music all include some type of subculture that embrace an entire lifestyle.

Imagine the worse time in your life, the time when you felt hopeless and were searching for answers as to why you were so miserable, why was each day getting worse instead of better? This is what it was like almost every day for the people living in the 1970’s. The 1970’s was a period of devastation and desperation which led the citizens of the United States to seek help and comfort from outside sources, which led to even more devastation for some people who chose to be in groups that made their problems worse. A lot of people in the 1970’s gave up on hope and happiness, feeling that as time went on, life would get worse; this is when they turned to religion. Religion started to spread like wild fire in the 1970’s, getting many people to turn

The success of British acts time lead American garage rock bands to change their sound and style to match. The most famous example of this was the Monkees; an American made carbon-copy of the Beatles that were formed simply to capitalize off the British Invasion

Rock and roll is about passion and honesty. In this paper I will describe how one band and another artist used their talents to fuel these traits. I will outline the events that lead up to the British invasion, what influenced the Beatles while dominating the world, and how they influenced the world around them. As time moves forward, I will describe the changing tides in the seventies and eighties for women’s rights and how Madonna used her music as a voice for those who couldn’t be heard.

The mid to late 1970s brought about a slow but steady change in punk rock. With the advent of heavy metal and punk rock bands an explosion of new rock genres emerged. The change was started by three bands from New York. The New York Dolls, the Dictators and the Ramones started a new trend that quickly spread throughout Europe and the rest of the world. It slowly caught on in the US and when it finally did the hardcore form of punk rock became a national expression for millions of teens and young adults for the next two decades.

“Pop and Rock music of the 1970” was quoted saying “Like progressive rock, heavy metal was an outgrowth of the psychedelic rock that flourished”. This psychedelic hippie sound was brought out of Rock culture and made as a new entity , which then became a big hit. The 70’s was big on change and coming out with multiple new genres and styles of music was one way of the Americans as one to

The peace signs, long hair, tie dye, incense, and hippie values were popular everywhere at this point. So the rock music styles of the 1970’s traced their influences from the late sixties. A few of these artists for example, Yes, The Eagles, The Allman Brothers Band, Steely Dan, and Alice Cooper. By the late 1970’s the rise of Black Pop, Reggae, and Disco had begun. A notable shift that took place in this era is Black Pop or Funk.

New types of music were being made, new artists were being famous, and concerts became bigger and better. Music of the 70's was "evolving from a combination of rhythm and blues, country and pop music" (Stewart 76). Many new genres had been made and people added their own twist to music as the 70's went on. Rock and roll was a huge thing in the 70's along with disco, heavy metal, pop, and more. More and more people began listening to rock that "for the first time in its history, large numbers of people began to think that maybe rock and roll really was here to stay; that it could grow and become an artistic medium that could adapt to its aging audience as well as continue to attract young fans who would remain the lifeblood of the music" (Stewart 77). Although rock was a big thing in the 70's, "no other style of music, however, says "1970's" quite as much as disco" (Stewart 86). More and more people began to think disco was here to stay but by 1980 disco was everything but dead. The 70's music is the decade that started the music about relationships, feelings, and ambitions. There were songs also about war, whether they be pro-war or anti-war. Music of the 70's had a major effect on what people listened to, and music that was made in the decades before and

     The time was in the mid-seventies, there was a void in the music industry that needed to be filled. This need for a new sound was aptly filled by punk rock, a new type of sound that had evolved from mostly rock and a little pop music. The focus of this paper is on punk rock and it’s ample beginnings, early pioneers of the new sound, punk rock listener’s cultural background and their ideas as a whole, bands influenced by the punk rock movement, and the state of punk rock today.

The 1970s, also known as the “Me Decade”, was a time of diversifying music. The Beatles had broken up, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin had died from drug overdose, Led Zeppelin was Britain’s most popular group, The Rolling Stones weren’t active, and rock & roll was branching out into various popular subgenres such as: Country Rock, Glam Rock, Progressive Rock, Punk Rock, Soft Rock, and Hard Rock/Heavy Metal. Hard rock and Heavy Metal were interchangeable terms during the time because of their similarity; consisting of fast or

Unfortunately, what happens is that people who could not hold a candle to the likes of Hendrix started noodling away. Soon you had endless solos that went nowhere. By 1973, I knew that what was needed was some pure, stripped down, no bullshit rock 'n' roll." John Holmstrom, founding editor of Punk magazine, recalls feeling "punk rock had to come along because the rock scene had become so tame that like Billy Joel and Simon and Garfunkel were being called rock and roll, when to me and other fans, rock and roll meant this wild and rebellious music." In critic Robert Christgau's description, "It was also a subculture that scornfully rejected the political idealism and Californian flower-power silliness of hippie

In the words of Todd Gitlin, “The critics’ consensus is that when the likes of Bobby Vinton and Fabian rose to the top of the charts, the real music went into cryogenic death for several years until The Beatles kissed it back to life in 1963,” (44). The Beatles had a massive impact on the music industry that lives on today (MacDonald 1). Even now, their first album, Introducing the Beatles, is one of the most forged albums of all time (Millard 7).

The 1975 is an eccentric band. Not only are they unpredictable, but they change from song to song. Each song to the men is like a piece of art. They utilize their time wisely, capturing a feel and adding poetic lyrics to tell a story. George and Matty put their critiques together and make everything happen. The controversial, fourteen year old band is not only problematic, but what will be put in history as glamourous

After the Vietnam War in the 70s, the people started to settle down. As a result, so did the music. Bands like Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones took the sound they had (hard rock) in the 60s and blended it with blues to create a

The scene that defined the 1970’s culture and captures Rabbit slowing down and beginning to change, is when Nelson comes home and starting working at the car dealership with his father. While Nelson starting working at the Toyota dealership with his father he decided to get the TR convertibles and sell them on the car dealership. However, when Rabbit finds out and gets very angry because he doesn’t believe they will ever sell because of the oil crisis going on. Everything changes when Nelson posts an ad in the Sunday news paper advertising the convertibles. They ended up getting a lot of traffic on the cars and ended up selling the cars for exactly what they were asking. This is important because it shows a glimpse into the 1970s culture,