Music in Culture: Pop and British Invasion-Influenced Garage Rock

For this assignment, imagine yourself a teen music fan at the beginning of 1966.
Half of your friends are really into folk and folk-influenced folk-rock.
Half of your friends are really into pop and British Invasion-influenced garage rock.
With pressure from both peer groups, you have to pick one of these styles to align yourself with.
Which one would you choose – and why?
Use our readings and in-class explorations for assistance, esp. the playlists at the end of the Rolling Stone Book’s essays and songs we listened to in class, as well as the overviews in Sound of the City – and where you think your tastes might have leaned had you lived during that era.
(Readings for week 6
MUSIC 1964-NOW SPRING 2022/BILLY ALTMAN
READINGS FOR WEEK 6
Next week we’ll finish looking at soul music of the mid-to-late 1960s and then explore the emergence of psychedelic music from California during that era.
Readings:
From Rolling Stone Ill. History
The Sound of San Francisco
The Doors
From Sound Of The City:
CH 11, part VI page 344 to the end of part VII
PLAYLIST WEEK 5
MOTOWN
Barrett Strong: Money
The Marvelettes: Please Mr. Postman
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: You Really Got A Hold On Me, Mickey’s Monkey
Mary Wells: My Guy
The Temptations: My Girl, The Way You Do The Things You Do
Martha & The Vandellas: Dancing In The Street
The Marvelettes: Don’t Mess With Bill
The Four Tops: Reach Out
STAX:
Booker T & The MGs: Hip Hug-Her, Green Onions
The Mar-Keys: Plantation Inn
Wilson Pickett: In The Midnight Hour, 99 ½
Sam & Dave: Hold On I’m Comin’, Small Portion of Your Love, Soul Man
Otis Redding: These Arms Of Mine, Shake, (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay)