What factors influenced music in the 1970s?

Answer 1

70's music was the writing/producing team of Thom Bell and Linda Creed.

Answer 2

The 70's continued the progression of music from the 40's, 50's & 60's. Supergroups like Led Zeppelin and CSN & Y, and individuals like Eric Clapton, Lennon, Harrison & McCartney and others drew on their musical roots from the 50's & 60's. Groups like America & the Eagles were influenced by folk and country rock. There was a gigantic spillover of the political unrest and civil rights movements of the 60's. R & B icons like Stevie Wonder & Smokey Robinson drew from their forebears in Motown and even further back from the doo-wop of the 50's and soul of the 60's.

Answer 3

One of the biggest influences in 70's music was the writing/producing team of Thom Bell and Linda Creed. They did a lot of work in the late 60's/early 70's for Atlantic, Avco, and Philly Groove labels with groups like the Stylistics, Delfonics, and the Spinners, among others. They put their signature on that type of music known as the "Philly Sound." (Think of songs like La-La Means I Love You, Betcha By Golly Wow, Could It Be I'm Falling in Love.).

The duo of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff was another great influence with the Philly Sound, working with groups like Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes, the O'Jays, and the Three Degrees.

Gamble and Huff also wrote and produced the 1974 hit T.S.O.P. (The Sounds of Philadelphia), which was also the theme song for "Soul Train." By the middle of the decade, the Philly Sound had evolved into the beginnings of disco, probably the biggest influence on popular music of the late 70's (for better or worse).

Answer 4

The 70's was driven by the need for greater unity and the need for both national and individual identities to be expressed with what many saw as their new-found independence from a colonial past and the stigma it left; conditioning how nations and individuals related to each other. In an era that saw revolutionary changes and individuals in their own right, the music of the seventies was influenced by the conditions of the past and what nations, cultures and individuals thought to be the best method of making life better for themselves and the ideals they adhered to in making their tomorrow better than today. Some adhered to socialism vs democracy, others to the fixtures of colonial rule vs. the pain in establishing change which independence demanded along with new-found responsibilities that it commanded.

Folk songs, Disco, Reggae, Pop, Jazz with its many fusions..a time when creativity had almost no end, most if not all original, expressing an independent thought of where we are and where we would like to be.

Answer 5

Drugs

Answer 6

Politics, Drug Experimentation and, a Backlash against all things '60's

Answer 7

Social factors (politics, civil rights, drugs, various social subcultures), commercial factors (radio formats, record sales, target marketing), artistic factors (influential artists), and technological factors (recording equipment, new instruments, production techniques)

Answer 8

Politics, Drug Experimentation and, a Backlash against all things '60's

Answer 9

Streaking
Politics (tin soldiers and nixon coming based on Kent State)

Answer 10

music knowledge, greatness, hard work.

above all, not carried by influences