Explores the visionary, mystical, and ecstatic traditions that influenced the music of the 1960s
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Examines the visionary, spiritual, and mystical influences on the
Grateful Dead, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison,
the Incredible String Band, the Left Banke, Lou Reed and the Velvet
Underground, and others
• Shows how the British Invasion acted as the “detonator” to explode visionary music into the mainstream
• Explains how 1960s rock and roll music transformed consciousness on both the individual and collective levels
The
1960s were a time of huge transformation, sustained and amplified by
the music of that era: Rock and Roll. During the 19th and 20th centuries
visionary and esoteric spiritual traditions influenced first
literature, then film. In the 1960s they entered the realm of popular
music, catalyzing the ecstatic experiences that empowered a generation.
Exploring
how 1960s rock and roll music became a school of visionary art,
Christopher Hill shows how music raised consciousness on both the
individual and collective levels to bring about a transformation of the
planet. The author traces how rock and roll rose from the sacred music
of the African Diaspora, harnessing its ecstatic power for evoking
spiritual experiences through music. He shows how the British Invasion,
beginning with the Beatles in the early 1960s, acted as the “detonator”
to explode visionary music into the mainstream. He explains how 60s rock
and roll made a direct appeal to the imaginations of young people,
giving them a larger set of reference points around which to understand
life. Exploring the sources 1960s musicians drew upon to evoke the
initiatory experience, he reveals the influence of European folk
traditions, medieval Troubadours, and a lost American history of
ecstatic politics and shows how a revival of the ancient use of
psychedelic substances was the strongest agent of change, causing the
ecstatic, mythic, and sacred to enter the consciousness of a generation.
The author examines the mythic narratives that underscored the
work of the Grateful Dead, the French symbolist poets who inspired Bob
Dylan, the hallucinatory England of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper, the tale
of the Rolling Stones and the Lord of Misrule, Van Morrison’s astral
journeys, and the dark mysticism of Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground.
Evoking the visionary and apocalyptic atmosphere in which the music of
the 1960s was received, the author helps each of us to better understand
this transformative era and its mystical roots.
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