6/27/1930
(Edward Weston Daybooks)
Last night with Jeanne D'Orge and Carl Cherry. Carl has new phonograph amplifier and played a Bach fugue and Ravel's Bolero. The volume was overpowering, excellent tone.
6/27/2020
60s music was influenced by the recorded and broadcast music of previous generations (1910 to 1950) as that would have been what they had access to, unless they also learned from sheet music and scores, in which case classical works going back to the baroque.
60s music also was influenced by the art world, primarily minimalism, where the pieces were more African-influenced (polyrhythms), more horizontal (less concerned with harmony and chord changes), and more likely to be pandiatonic in nature. I always thought that even though the roots of the Grateful Dead were folk, the jamming aspect of it came from jazz and minimalism. (Also consider the procedures used in aleatoric and electronic music which are also theoretical and had a huge influence on mid-60s experimentation).
6/27/2021
As a continuation of the "Containers of Music" idea, I'm revisiting recorded music's intimate connection with cinema, and in context with the current album, photography as well.
Book: The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand. A great book with lots of things that perhaps you didn't know before. On TV: In the 1950s, many musicians claimed that they were transformed by musical artists that they saw on television, but it could have been that television itself transformed them. Mediums have a way making us believe we like things.
On the Beatles beachhead in the US: Places are seldom how we imagine them to be. When the Beatles first came to the United States, they were expecting people to be dressed as they interpreted the fashion customs at that time. But it was the exact opposite.