Swamp rock, southern rock, latin rock (US, 70s): Creedence Clearwater Revival, Allman Brothers, Santana
Swamp rock, southern rock, latin rock (US, 70s): Creedence Clearwater Revival, Allman Brothers, Santana
This programme is held in Hungarian.
At the turn of the 1960s-70s, the hitherto more or less unified beat/rock split into different styles, trends, and currents, and soon an incredibly strong and rich offering developed. The strongest offshoots—as I have discussed in detail in my recent lectures—were progressive rock (King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, ELP), as well as hard rock/heavy metal marked by the names Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath, jazz-rock initiated by Miles Davis's experiments, and the new singer-songwriter wave representing the intellectual lyricism of the era (Crosby, Stills & Nash, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Van Morrison). This period also saw the birth of Latin rock (Santana), the golden age of southern rock (Allman Brothers), and swamp rock (Creedence Clearwater Revival)—the latter three styles will be the topic of the next lecture at the Rock and Roll University with a rock music tour guided by Béla Szilárd Jávorszky.
A rock history lecture series from blues through Elvis to the seventies. In 2022, a regular monthly program was launched at the MZH Multimedia Library and Club under the title Rock and Roll University. Rock and Roll University presents the most important processes and performers in international pop history. After all, rock and roll, somewhat simplified, is the result of a peculiar cultural-historical marriage: when the musical traditions of black slaves transported from Africa (blues) and white settlers emigrating from Europe (country) met and continuously mixed on a third continent, America. Moreover, all this took place in a society radically transformed by technical progress and the associated industrialization and urbanization. In the ninth season of this series (spring 2026), we will focus on the social, cultural, and musical events taking place in the United States at the turn of the 1960s-70s.
Rock and roll is, somewhat simplistically, the result of a particular cultural-historical fusion: that of when the musical traditions of Black slaves brought over from Africa met those of white settlers who had emigrated from Europe to the new world, the Americas. Moreover, all this took place in a radically transforming society, following technological progress and its associated industrialisation and urbanisation. In the second season of this series, we look at the social, cultural and musical events of the period from Elvis to the twilight of the rock and roll era in the Fifties.
Rock Troubadours (US, 70s): CSNY, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Roy Harper
