TITLE- EASY RIDER This essay looks at the use of music in the film Easy Rider and how the film used pop music to guide and infulence the story.

"EASY RIDER" Easy Rider is a late 1960s "road film" a story about the search for freedom in a conformist and corrupt America, in the midst of paranoia, bigotry and violence. It was made in the year of the Woodstock concert, but the tone of the film is remarkably tragic and bleak, perhaps aiming to reflect the collapse of the idealistic 60s. The journey by two self-righteous, anti-hero bikers eastward through the American Southwest, is …

…only underlined the film's setting and highlighted traits of the two main characters but also served as ironic counterpoint in a way that decisively showed that the multi-artist pop compilation could be employed to pointed dramatic effect" Smith 162 Wendy Tucker BIBLOGRAPHY 1.Hopper, D. (1969) Easy Rider . 2.Hugo, C. (1986) Movie, vol 31/32 "Easy Rider and Hollywood in the 70's" WEB; p.67-71 3.Smith, J. (1998) The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music , New York, Columbia UP; p.154-185