... and generally revolted against the conventions of society and politics as usual. Thus the society was divided, and this partition shone through in the music. Some musicians in the 1960s tried to unite the age-divided country, or at least tried to make those who opposed the counterculture movement ... was appalled by these lyrics, widening even further the gap that already existed. Vice President Spiro Agnew believed that "music glorified drug use," and that the "drug culture" was propagated by pop, and publicly advocated song censorship. Art Linkletter, a TV personality in the 1960s ass...

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... were written in honor of kings and other rulers. It did not become a serious messenger of politics until the 19th century with the emergence of nationalist music. Nationalist music provided a voice for different cultures, a trend that would echo through the next century at a smaller scale: the voice of the people in those ... notions that in order to perform, a singer had to have a conventionally good voice, thereby redefining the role of vocalist in popular music. As a musician, he sparked several genres of pop music, including electrified folk-rock and country-rock. And that just touc...

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... a common thought among Clergy and just about anybody over 30 in the 60's and 70's. It was also fondly referred to as, the devil's music. There was a popular belief that, if a person played certain records backwards one would hear messages from the Devil. That notion seems rather outrageous today ... It is doubtful that people will be talking about this 20 years from now. No body is really going to be proud of the current pop princesses and boy bands. They gave the current under 30 generation nothing to be proud of. However, people are still talking about The Beatles ... called for peace,...

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