Western art - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Intellectual and Experiential Resources: 1) List and briefly comment on each Encounter experience you have had this week. For readings, you may wish to copy and paste a short excerpt that you have found particularly interesting or useful, and comment on why you chose that particular excerpt. “There is no doubt that the public likes to see victims, if only to patronize them with applause. The main type of victim (the type that I think gave rise to all the others) is a politicized versio...

Post World War two (WW2) America saw the rise of the working class lifestyle made possible by the emerging economic boom that followed the war. This saw a seismic shift in the American music culture from an elitist to a proletarian/working class subculture. With this new development emerged the rock and roll genre in the mid-1950s. Perhaps as a reflection of the era’s poor and working class rebellion against bourgeoisie music and art. From then onwards this new purely American music genre and ...