... roll audiences and was also highly censored. A large amount of the music of the 1960s dealt with antiwar protest and drug use. Local broadcasters refused to air songs and those artists deemed "obscene" or "overtly violent" by anti-rock advocates (Winfield 97). At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the American military banned songs of the protest movement from being sent or played overseas on ... armed forces radio stations. In 1965, Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction", a song about racism, social injustice, and nuclear annihilation, reached the number one spot. This song, ... he would ...

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