The Golden Age of San Francisco Rock: The Summer of Love

In the mid-to-late 1960s, the San Francisco Bay Area exploded with psychedelic rock

that captured the imagination of the world, creating legendary music that endures

and influences popular culture to this day. The roots and heyday of the San Francisco

Sound is explored in depth via both common and rare audio recordings by greats

like Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Santana. The course also

details its roots in folk-rock; the integration of jazz, ethnic, blues, and avant-garde

influences into psychedelic rock; and how San Francisco rock continued to evolve in

the 1970s, into funk, punk, and beyond.

Richie Unterberger