Podcast #1

Here's the link to the first podcast. A listening response is not required for this, but please let me know if you have any difficulties accessing the files.

http://www.archive.org/details/RhetoricofPunk1_522

The lineup includes:

Sam Cooke, "A Change is Gonna Come": One of the hallmark songs of the civil rights movement.
Bob Dylan, "Subterranean Homesick Blues": Nice overview of 60s counterculture, good example of Dylan going electric.
Percy Faith, "Theme from a Summer Place": Number one song of 1960.
Jackson 5, "I Want You Back": Pop from the late 60s, with young Michael Jackson.
Shangri-Las, "Leader of the Pack": Girl group music.
Crystals, "And Then He Kissed Me": Girl group again, this time with Phil Spector production.
Aretha Franklin, "Think (Freedom)": Circling around the feminist movement.
The Band, "The Weight": Old-time music recorded up in Woodstock but not connected to the hippie movement.
Bob Dylan, "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll": Early Dylan folk song, telling a story about the slaying of a black woman by a white man.
The Beatles, "The Word": The Beatles on Love