Культурология. Горелова А.В - 23 стр.

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like anyone but themselves. Masters of pastiche, they were also the most
original and experimental artists in rock history - eager always to push at
boundaries, to find out what might happen if you played that instrument in that
room with the tape running backwards and all pre-conceptions left outside the
door.
Incorporating influences from every branch of popular music, and even
beyond to the classical world, they returned the compliment in full, inspiring
musicians in rock, pop, folk, jazz, R&B, country and blues in a way that will
never be possible in the future. Their fashions, argot and habits were imitated
by millions. They set the social agenda for the West’s most playful and
adventurous decade of the last century. They provided the soundtrack for a
generation. And they also taped about 200 of the greatest pop records of all time.
Few artists in any field affect a generation beyond their own. To survive
more than 20 or 30 years after your death requires a combination of genius and
luck. After that, it’s in the lap of the gods. But alone of the pop performers of the
20
th
century, it’s safe to predict that The Beatles’ music will live forever.
GLOSSARY
cliché - a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually
expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality,
ingenuity, and impact by long overuse.
hype - 1. to stimulate, excite, or agitate 2. to create interest in by
flamboyant or dramatic methods; promote or publicize showily.
psychodelia - reproducing images, sounds, or the like, experienced while
in a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory
perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and
hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair (because of
use of various drugs producing this state, as LSD or mescaline).
pastiche - a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly
of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
R&B - rhythm-and-blues. Also, r&b, R and B.
argot - a specialized idiomatic vocabulary peculiar to a particular class or
group of people.
soundtrack - the sound recorded on a motion-picture film; audio portion
of a film.
1. Read the text. Make sure you understand it. Mark the following statements
true or false.
1. The Beatles have produced 5 albums.
2. The Beatles revolutionized pop music in the 90’s.
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