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MUSC 253 Exam #2

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the umbrella term to describe the folk and blues in uenced music of the psychedelic era.
Acid rock
the ardent followers of the Grateful Dead.
Deadheads
older ballrooms in San Francisco such as the Fillmore and Avalon that staged youth dances in the early years of the city's psychedelic movement
electric ballroom
the Greenwich Village recording studio built by Jimi Hendrix in the late 1960s.
electric lady
a naturally produced, sustained distorted squeal created when high-volume sound coming out of an ampli er is taken in by the pickup on the guitar (or a microphone) and then fed back into the amplfier.
feedback
refers to the renewed interest in folk music that occurred in the late 1950s after an earlier anti-Communist furor had pushed it underground.
fifties folk revival
a guitar technique rst popularized by Eddie Van Halen.
fret board tapping
a distorted tone that results when an electric guitar signal is processed through a fuzz box -
a commercially available electronic device that adds distortion to the incoming signal.
fuzz tone
simple raw form of rock and roll created by amateurish American bands in the 1960s.
garage rock
the district in San Francisco that became ground zero for the city's 1960s youth movement.
haight-ashbury
the term first coined by reporter Michael Fellon in 1965 to describe young people who wore long hair, headbands, tie-dyed shirts and bell-bottom pants.
hippies
a folk jam session where traditional folk songs are sung
hootenanny
band that features extensive musical improvisation in its performances and crosses genre boundaries.
jam band
the mountainous wooded area north of West Hollywood when many rock artists lived in the mid to late 1960s
laurel canyon
short, recognizable melodic motives or phrases.
licks
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