The 60's
The Sixties was a time when corruption and cultural conflict were prominent in society. One source states that it was also a decade that was defined by the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, riots, and assassinations. This tumultuous decade is expressed through the music. John Orman author of The Politics of Rock Music, writes that “Rock music reflects society.” Music is in Clive Davis’s phrase, “a footnote to the events within society.” The origin of popular music in the sixties, the Farber source states, is undeniably African American. Black innovators including Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and B.B. King, never gained the critical or commercial respect due to them. White groups such as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and the Young Rascals openly acknowledged their debt to the black music tradition, but all reaped the benefits far beyond those available to black artists. Many artists didn’t just use black tradition in their music, but they used great works by famous poets. Jim Curtis, author of Rock Eras observes, that if we compare Paul Simon’s “Fifty-Ninth Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy)” to Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a
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