Blog 8: Concert Video

After viewing the two videos of concerts during different time periods in U.S. history, it is obvious that our perspective on music has changed. In the first video, we were shown performances of "The Who" and Jimmy Hendrix and their style of music. Not only was their style of music from the 70's different, but their performances were different as well compared to performances and music from the early 60's. In the 60's, the video showed a well organized and a relatively peaceful performance. The video from the 70's showed a high energy performance that consisted of long drum and guitar solos and the destruction of instruments. It is evident that societies taste in music as a whole has changed between these time periods. If we were to compare these performances to performances of today's society, we will see a great difference as well. This can be one of the reasons it is difficult to define music.