Psychedelic Affordances in the Music of Highasakite
Abstract The late Sheila Whiteley examined how different styles of psychedelic rock in the 1960s and early 1970s shared a common musical rhetoric (or “codes”) that, together with the socio-cultural context in which the music was presented and heard, conveyed elements of the psychedelic e...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget)
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Studia Musicologica Norvegica |
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| Online Access: | https://www.idunn.no/smn/2019/01/psychedelic_affordances_in_the_music_of_highasakite |
| Summary: | Abstract
The late Sheila Whiteley examined how different styles of psychedelic
rock in the 1960s and early 1970s shared a common musical rhetoric
(or “codes”) that, together with the socio-cultural context in which
the music was presented and heard, conveyed elements of the psychedelic
experience. In this essay, the author probes further the ways in which
some types of popular music serve to represent the psychedelic experience,
not so much through semantically stable stylistic codes but through
the affordances these sound-shapes and their context provide. To
illustrate the application of this expanded notion of psychedelic
musical rhetoric, he examines the psychedelic aspects of some of the
music of contemporary Norwegian pop band, Highasakite, whose work
provides a good example of the post-millennial evolution of the
musical vision of psychedelia’s earliest proponents. |
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| ISSN: | 0332-5024 1504-2960 |