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UK Popular Music

1960-2000

Winter Concert HCC items?

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Performing UK Rock Music stylistically

Basic (C/ Pass)

Accurate, minor errors, awareness of style, awareness of other

nterme!iate(B/ Merit)

Accurate " fluent, clear sense of style, #hrasing, !ynamic cont(lou!$soft), awareness of %alance

A!&ance! (A/ Distinction)

'ery secure, attention to !etail (style, !ynamics), con&incing

#erformance, a!ustment to others

Keyword week: Genre

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1*+s British Beat "British RnB

Beat: Beatles

British Beat -i&er#ool

.ore suits, clean look, shorthair/cut

Po# soun!0 harmony, cleanguitar, fresh soun!

1n stage0 cheeky, #leasant,charm

R n B0 Rolling Stones

British RnB

.ore casual clothes, long h

Raw soun!0 Richar!s !istorte! guitar2 3aggers harsh tonemu!!

1n stage0 3aggers menacing look " &aca

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45+s Prog Rock " 6ea&y Metal

Prog Rock0 Pink Floy ! "enesis

-onger songs " more com#le7structures (8lassical)

More com#le7 instrumentalsessions (3a99 freer)

8hange of time signatures(%eat)

:heatrical #erformances

;u#erior &ocals (range)

6ea&y Metal0 Black Sa##at$ ! %e &eppelin

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4>+s ?ew Romantics " n!ie Rock

?ew Romantics:'ulture 'lu#

-ight, enoya%le, airy

-yrics a%out lo&e "relationshi#s

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4+s Brit#o# " 8oolBritannia

Brit#o# (rock) 3asis

;u%/genre of n!ie Rock

@m#hasis on guitar, %ass,!rums

8atchy hooks 4*+s British influence

-yrics a%out British to#ics "concerns (working class)

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+++/4+s Post/BritPo# "British ;oul

Post/Brit#o#0 'olplay

More melo!ic " intros#ecti&e

-ess o&erly British concerns

Use of American rock " in!ieinfluences an! e7#erimentalmusic

Present image of or!inary#erson (%oy/ne7t/!oor)

;oul0 4)y 5ine$ouse

British ;oul !ominate! %y fe

1ften s

:hir! in&asion British music int

'arious genres0 soul, a9

Keyword week: dialogue