... country. Drugs, such as LSD and marijuana were beginning to be used in great amounts due to the fact that many big bands would use them to be "cool", thus affecting the society that listened to them, a great amount of people. The Vietnam War and a generation gap that existed with it, created a society in need of a form of expression, and rock music became their answer. Rock ... groups began to use these issues to express either a peace and love tone of music, or a dark side of what like was behind the limelight. Despite their two distinct musical ... resolved and LSD was now on the dec...

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... . Folk artists like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez were beginning to be seen as the unheard voice of society and not only. Songs like "Blowin" in the wind" by Bob Dylan began opening up the minds of the youth to the social problems facing the world such as the civil rights movement. Along with the Vietnam War , a new movement called "Hippie" aroused. Its music fashioned ... the ideas of peace and love and was illustrated musically (because, we can easily say that the hippie movement ... had a musical revolution at it's core) by artists like Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, etc San Francisco was burs...

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... is now like a sauna, in pitch-black darkness, and the air is charged with electricity. The crowd quivers in anticipation. Then a thunderbolt of sound erupts from the amplifiers and the stage is illuminated with colors, pyrotechnics, and dense smoke. The band appears, clutching their guitars, drum sticks ... throughout this entire time period were reflected in the popular music. At the beginning of rock-and-roll, women were reflected as stereotypically inferior to men. This was shown in squeaky-clean girl groups of the early-sixties. Groups like the Shangri-Las, the Ronettes, and the Sup...

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... more and more popular, a new music style was evolved from it that became known as "hippie music." In the 1960s music mirrored the tensions of the Vietnam War era and played an important role in American culture. The verbal content of Rock songs turned toward rebellion, social protest, sex, and drugs. Many groups, among them Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead, tried to approximate ... clothes and anarchistic political orientation made it easy to identify hardcore fans of the genre. The eighties marked the beginning of the new age of Rock n" Roll. At the start of this decade, rock g...

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... social and technological change. Some people called it the "decade of discontent- because of the race riots in Detroit and La, and the demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Other people called it the decade of "peace, love, and harmony-. It was called this because of the peace movement and the emergence of the flower children. (Britannica) The sixties were about assassination, ... unforgettable fashion, new styles of music, civil rights, gay and women's liberation, Vietnam, Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, peace ... marches, sexual freedom, drug experimentation, and Woodstock. All...

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... the most important. It contains the most information on the demise of rock and roll of the song. "Helter Skelter in a summer swelter" clumps together the British Invasion and the social unrest that the American students felt during the mid 1960s. "Helter Skelter" itself was a song made much later after the beginning of the British invasion, but it was just meant to show ... the cluster of events of the mid 60s. The social voice that came through in the folk-rock sound of Dylan, is now full of messages, many of them open, many of them hidden. The plain messages include the dangers of nucl...

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... who could not even do that were able to listen to all the songs of the British and American charts on the radio for free. The Beatles may have had easy to understand lyrics ("Love, love me do" etc) but they were also concerned with the war in Vietnam. Especially John Lennon, who after the Beatles went on to become an activist along ... but I will not get into this because I am only supposed to talk about international acts. By the end of the 1960's to the beginning of 1970's, everything changed in Greece. Military dictatorship took command of the country and the Rolling Stones became a ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... 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 ...

• Word Count: 1882
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate