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The narrative starts with an interdisciplinary description of the historic, social, philosophical, psychological, and technological backgrounds of the process. It further describes the emergence of all the basic styles of contemporary beat music in the first half of the 20th century. Taking off from the Blues, Gospel, and R&B, it follows several tracks to describe the most outstanding phenomena characterizing the past half a century - from the early Rock'n'Roll of the 1950's, through the various currents of Rock music - Soul, Funk, Hip-Hop, Disco, Electronic music, and the 1980's New Wave - to House, Trance, Techno, Jungle, Trip-Hop, and more.
The MTB plot is spiced up with the major social phenomena that accompanied the musical scene - including the US black liberation movement, Flower Power, the gay community, drug culture, MTV, second summer of love & the rave movement, superstar djs and so on. The MTB lecture-show comes with verbal explanations and video clips, some of which are quite rare, presenting musical samples of all periods and styles.
Successfully presented all over Israel for the past 6 years, this unique lecture-show is produced and given by DJ SirJohn (39), holder of a BA in psychology, expert on the history of contemporary music in general and the Clubbing scene in particular, and senior teacher at Muzik - School of Creation and Production in Tel Aviv.
see: WWW.MUZIK.CO.IL
MTB brings up questions and insights that could, among other things, help both youths and people who work with them deal with problems like drug abuse, violent behavior etc. that follow from the contemporary youth culture
The lecture-show is designed for various audiences. Minimal recommended age is 15.
The basic show is 2-hours long; it could be extended to 3 hours + intermission, or to a 1-day seminar.