Hmm... I suppose it's a matter of how you define "60s music". I tend to think of 60s music as starting with the Beatles and going to the Sex Pistols. With very rough bits around the edges. This nicely maps to my political definition of "the 60s", which runs from Kennedy's Assassination to Nixon's resignation.
I don't think this is any more arbitrary than using the calendar numbers. Some types of music group together and help define the era. I tend to be a history-of-tenchology guy, and this maps reasonably well to the rise of stereo (the first two Beatles records were released in mono) and the rise of FM radio. (50s music starts with the rise of the transistor radio.) I'm sure you could make the same kinds of distinctions in classical music on which instruments have been invented.
I've seen various spellings of acappella, acapella etc. I was most concerned about the two you mention. "From the head", iirc, because the church didn't allow musical instruments.
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Date: 2013-08-18 06:35 pm (UTC)I don't think this is any more arbitrary than using the calendar numbers. Some types of music group together and help define the era. I tend to be a history-of-tenchology guy, and this maps reasonably well to the rise of stereo (the first two Beatles records were released in mono) and the rise of FM radio. (50s music starts with the rise of the transistor radio.) I'm sure you could make the same kinds of distinctions in classical music on which instruments have been invented.
I've seen various spellings of acappella, acapella etc. I was most concerned about the two you mention. "From the head", iirc, because the church didn't allow musical instruments.