Recognized
for its distinctive musical features and its connection to periods of
social innovation and ferment, the genre of psychedelia has exerted
long-term influence in many areas of cultural production, including
music, visual art, graphic design, film, and literature. William Echard
explores the historical development of psychedelic music and its various
stylistic incarnations as a genre unique for its fusion of rock, soul,
funk, folk, and electronic music. Through the theory of musical
topics―highly conventional musical figures that signify broad cultural
concepts―and musical meaning, Echard traces the stylistic evolution of
psychedelia from its inception in the early 1960s, with the Beatles' Rubber Soul and Revolver
and the Kinks and Pink Floyd, to the German experimental bands and
psychedelic funk of the 1970s, with a special emphasis on
Parliament/Funkadelic. He concludes with a look at the 1980s and early
1990s, touching on the free festival scene, rave culture, and neo–jam
bands. Set against the cultural backdrop of these decades, Echard's
study of psychedelia lays the groundwork and offers lessons for
analyzing the topic of popular music in the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries.
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