Music of the 70’s
A Variety of Styles
What do you think of when you
think of the 70s?
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What are 3 things that come to mind
when you think of the 70s.
Funk
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Blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a
rhythmic, danceable new form of music.
Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony
and brings a strong rhythmic groove of
electric bass and drums
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAp7u
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Styles of Music Represented in the
1970’s - Funk
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How is this music similar and
different from Motown in the 50s?
James Brown
 Sly and the Family Stone
 George Clinton (Funkadelic)
 Kool and the Gang
 Earth, Wind and Fire (Pop-Funk)
 Stevie Wonder
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Music Styles of the 70’s – Progressive Rock (Characteristics listed
below)
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Long songs that are structured, not improvised
Loud and soft passages with musical crescendos
The use of a live symphony orchestra or synthesizer that
sounds like strings
Extended instrumental solos
Blending of acoustic, electric, and electronic elements to
translate the emotion of a song with multiple moods
Multi-movement compositions
Progressive Rock Groups
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Led Zepplin
Kansas
Styx
Yes
The Moody Blues
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Genesis
Pink Floyd
Frank Zappa
Hard Rock/Metal of the 70s
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Hard Rock - typified by a heavy use of distorted
electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, and often
accompanied with pianos and keyboards.
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Metal - roots in blues rock and psychedelic rock,
the bands that created heavy metal developed a
thick, massive sound, characterized by highly
amplified distortion, extended guitar solos,
emphatic beats, and overall loudness
Hard Rock/Metal
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Led Zepplin
Kiss
Aerosmith
Queen
Bad Company
Blue Oyster Cult
Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath
Ted Nugent
Judas Priest
AC/DC
Van Halen
Cooperate Rock
a term used to describe rock music that
utilised large arena venues, particularly
sports venues, for concerts or series of
concerts linked in tours.
 often came from the hard rock, heavy
metal and progressive rock genres, but
utilised a more commercially oriented and
radio-friendly sound
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Cooperate Rock Cont.
highly-produced music that included both
hard rock numbers and power ballads,
both often employing anthemic choruses
 Boston  Journey 
Cooperate Rock
Boston
 Foreigner
 Peter Frampton
 Heart
 Journey
 The Steve Miller Band
 REO Speedwagon/Styx
 Supertramp
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Southern Rock/American Heartland
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Southern rock is a subgenre of rock
music, and genre of Americana. It
developed in the Southern United States
from rock and roll, country music, and
blues, and is focused generally on electric
guitar and vocals.
American Heartland Rock/Southern
Lynyrd Skynyrd
 Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
 The J. Geils Band
 ZZ Top 
The California Sound and Soft Rock
Catchy songs
 Proficient musicianship
 Great vocal harmonies
 Pop, folk, country and blues influence
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California Groups
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Crosby, Stills and Nash
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6pphVs8bF0
http://www.crosbystillsnash.com/
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The Eagles
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea0CDieb4yM
http://www.eaglesband.com/
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Jackson Browne
Fleetwood Mac
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GN2kpBoFs4
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The Steve Miller Band
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Country Rock from the 70s
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country-rock is generally used to refer to
the wave of rock musicians of the late
1960s and early 1970s who began to
record rock records using country
themes, vocal styles and additional
instrumentation, most characteristically
pedal steel guitar.
Country Rock
America
 The Marshall Tucker Band
 The Charlie Daniels Band
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On your guided question sheet, list at
least 3 elements of Country Rock that
you hear in “Devil Went Down To
Georgia.”
British Pop Rock
Popular music from England that
contained:
A combination of rock elements with pop
elements
 Arena rock style
 Blues influenced rock style
 Some extra production in the songs like
orchestra instruments and synthesizers
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British Pop Rock
Paul McCartney and Wings
 Elton John
 Eric Clapton
 Rod Stewart
 The Bee Gees
 Dire Straits
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British Pop Rock Performances
Elton John
 Paul McCartney
 Bee Gees
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Punk Rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed
between 1974 and 1976 in the United States,
the United Kingdom, and Australia.
 Rooted in garage rock, punk rock bands avoided
perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock.
 Punk bands created fast, hard-edged music,
typically with short songs, stripped-down
instrumentation, and often political, antiestablishment lyrics.
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Punk Rock
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The Ramones
The
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Dead Boys
Dictators
Cramps
Sex Pistols
Clash
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music.
 Disco acts charted high during the mid1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked
during the late 1970s.
 It had its roots in clubs that catered to
African American, gay, psychedelic, and
other communities in New York City and
Philadelphia during the late 1960s and
early 1970s.
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Disco Problems
Because disco used electronic drum
machines, many live musicians could not
get music jobs.
 The rhythms were very repetitive.
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Disco
Donna Summers
 Gloria Gaynor
 ABBA
 Barry White
 Chic
 The Village People
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