Rhapsodic and cathartic, psychedelic music came roaring into existence in the mid-1960s. The style’s guitar-centric, ...d. “It was like she switched a channel that brought out the power. And the music was louder by a quantum leap than what went before. It made everything diff

...d it to become so successful. Its superficial political coverage, critical music reviews, and experienced writers and editors propelled the magazine to the ...xperience to create a publication that documented and later influenced the music industry. The success of the magazine was rooted in Wenner’s experience a

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...Francisco was a crucible for Coltrane and his own style of mind-expanding music, all the while inspiring the long-hairs who followed him. Piecing together ...e. According to Lewis Porter’s indispensable ''John Coltrane: His Life and Music'', Sanders and Coltrane first met in 1959 in Oakland, where Sanders was liv

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...the roulette wheel, while lascivious pictures hung on the walls. A band of music and numberless blazing lamps gave animation and a feeling of joyous rapture ...gazer. The sight of such treasures, the occasional success of players, the music, the bustle, heat, drink, greed and deviltry, all combined to encourage pla

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...e up the stairs, looked around, then left (the first of many such visits). Music continued. Debbie Dub cut her .foot badly on broken glass, left a bloody tr ...': They put their hands on the table and they could hear the music. It was music they could appreciate because it was so loud.

...o provide services to gay people. And everywhere the driving beat of disco music heralded a new era in gay self-awareness. ...created an affirmative culture in the 1970s, as the popularity of women's music provided opportunities for large numbers of women to gather and celebrate t

...in harmony. Waring straightened me out nicely but quickly. "You don't read music, do you" he said, rather than asked. I acknowledged this and was told that ...o, Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee, everyone who could "carry a tune" knew the music.

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During the 1960s Jorma Kaukonen helped pioneer psychedelic music. His electrifying guitar playing on Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pil ''Barry Melton recently told me that the 1960s music scene in San Francisco could have happened without the rise of psychedelic

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...[we're] like this little group trying to make a dent in the San Francisco music system." Stylistically diverse, these early bands were united in their need ...d they'd go out for a reason. There were a lot of things happening but the music was pretty much a focal point." —John Gullak (Mutants). </blockquote>

...ircuses, bars, homes, drag shows, punk shows, storefronts, advertisements, music shows, trolley cars, popular & unpopular movies, city monuments, catwalks, ...he site, members of the audience would join in with the performers; making music, painting a mural, even helping to prepare the site for performance and lat

...s and governesses instructed them in proper manners. Tutors gave them art, music, French and German languages. Most boys were permitted to attend public sch

...cky, Arcelio, who was part of the Malibus musical combo. They played their music all around the Mission. Mary and Evelyn with their brother who was really i

...exas stood up for the heartlands of the Southwest. There were also various music groups such as "Kafala" and "Spice"--sixty in total--inspired the moment. W ...) follow. Delia (Alegría) arrives with dimples ready. Red wine softens the music I'm still sober but high. Fernando remembers Neruda and Nicanor. Shakes his

...ame of age in the 1920s and 1930s, she followed the popular entertainment, music and dancing of the day. She most definitely caught the performance bug, an

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