African American Music and Culture in the late 1960s
Guitar Heroes and Heavy Metal Part I
100
Name that Tune
What is Paranoid?
100
This is a hallucinogenic drug commonly used by hippies to expand their minds
What is LSD?
100
Hippie culture largely inspired this type of rock music
What is acid rock?
100
This term became synonymous with African American culture. It referred to their heritage - food, music, clothing, hairstyles, etc.
What is Soul?
100
Jimi Hendrix revolutionized guitar technique by pushing electric guitar further than ever before. This device which manipulates the sound of the electric guitar was one of the ways he did that.
What are guitar pedals?
200
Name that Artist!
Who are the Beatles?
200
These were used to randomly assign young people to serve in the Vietnam War. They were sometimes burned in protests.
What are draft cards?
200
These two groups jumped on the trend of making acid rock music.
Who were The Beatles and The Rolling Stones?
200
These events occurred in major US cities. They opened the eyes of white Americans to the plight that African Americans were experiencing.
What were riots?
200
This group played their bluesy rock at an earsplitting level. They mixed this high volume music with softer ballads like Stairway to Heaven.
Who is Led Zeppelin?
300
Name that artist!
Who is Otis Redding?
300
This musical genre was inspired by drugs, especially LSD and Marijuana.
What is Acid Rock?
300
These two things were large factors in the decline of hippie culture.
What were drugs and tourism?
300
This artist was known as the King of Soul.
Who was Otis Redding?
300
This artist was originally in the group Cream. He later went on to have a solo career, and performed pieces like Layla and Tears in Heaven.
Who is Eric Clapton?
400
Name that tune!
What is Sunshine of your Love?
400
This is a method of making music where rhythms rather than harmonies are layered on top of each other. This method is commonly used in African music, and was utilized in Funk Music as well.
What is Polyrhythms?
400
This is why Hippies rejected societal norms in many ways, including having long hair, dressing differently, doing drugs and living in communities.
What is the desire to expand their minds and show you can do so by not conforming to society.
400
This was the Soul Music nickname of James Brown.
What is Soul Brother #1?
400
People protested and burned their draft card in protest of this event in American History.
What is the Vietnam War?
500
Name that Tune!
What is Purple Haze?
500
A chord using only the 1st and 5th notes of a chord, skipping the 3rd.
What is a power chord?
500
This was a group of authors who wrote poetry and books disparaging the government. They are largely credited with starting the hippie movement.
Who were The Beats?
500
This instrument's role in the polyrhythmic style of Funk Music was to lay down the groove of the song, and provide a foundation for the other instruments in the band.
What is the bass guitar?
500
This was the attitude in the late 60s that made people want a different type of music from the flower power music of Acid Rock.
What is anger and sadness due to current events of the time?