... saw it played a big role during the Vietnam era and much of today. I first used the internet. The internet is a great a place to not only download music but also to find information on it. Without a doubt I was able to find a sufficient amount of information. But the internet is not the only place to find ... nothing but a Hoochie Mama, You's a Ho,and You can do it if you put your back into it.) The 1960-1970 was a decade of music that reflected the events taking place at the time. The Vietnam War was a war to stop the spread of communism. But did the cost of American lives ... support ...

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... , 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 understand ... 're gone. The older generation 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 Lin...

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... and its natural process of development can be and is affected by virtually everything from other cultures (the recent Latin influence on American popular music), the weather (would Morrisey have happened in a country that didn't get as much rain?), and of course...politics. This stuff all ... examine. During the Vietnam conflict, war had a very visible and direct affect on society, and most obviously, on popular culture - especially music. As that war raged on, and the television cameras overseas broadcast images of death and destruction all over the jungles of Southeast Asia, the ... ...

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... October 15, 1969, a demonstration called The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam took place with protesters singing this song in mass. Society in the 60s were greatly influenced by music that protested the Vietnam War. Protests soon became violent and affected Americans on their own soil. These violent acts made their way to Ohio. On May 4, 1970 four students were ... even though he was black. He was an inspiration to black soldiers and black protesters around. He was big part of Woodstock and protest music during the Vietnam War (Chuvalas). Never before in the history of America did m...

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... was also a strong supporter of non-violence, especially that of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the ideas behind integration. Unlike Baez, though, her style of music was entirely new. She is described as having " brought African-American blues to white Americans?34 In her song "Get it While You Can,'she belted ... as one of the most important Americans of the twentieth century, his songs have been covered by literally hundreds of artists. The bulk of his music protested the war, with his most famous song being "Blowing in the Wind,?in which he pleaded for the answers to such questions as, "...

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... wearing "gaily colorful clothing, beads, feather, and hair-any-way-you-please, touted free love, communal living, Asian philosophy and the occult" ("14850 Magazine" 7). Woodstock was a culmination of music and art which are both forms of expression. These hippies broke rules, violated norms, and found themselves as a united array of conglomerated ideas and a similar disgust for the fallacies that ... were filtered through their brains. The thousands that gathered came to release tensions, feel the music, and come to peace. Terry H. Anderson remarks, "For many participants, the growing se...

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... of the war and the thousands that will die because of it. One of these distractions is music. Music of today is really at a high point. As I walk down the aisle at my music store, I glance at the old music of the 60's and 70's and begin to question the time period. The Vietnam War was ... in full throttle and these people are trying to write music with "deep messages", experimenting with mind expanding drugs and basically just doing nothing to help the people of the country. I pick up a Doors ... album along with a Grateful Dead disc. These people all seem burdened by their music. Didn'...

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... women, establishing themselves as female rock, sound, funk or jazz artists was extremely difficult because the standards society held for women didn't include "music star." But there were many women who pulled it off. Peggy Lee was one of these women. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in ... Benny Goodman's band in July 1941. Most of the success she received is credited with the big bands. Peggy said, " I learned more about music from the men I worked with in bands than I have learned anywhere else. They taught me discipline and the value of rehearsing and even how ... her famous. Today...

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... represented a time of change in America. One of the main contributors to this change in America was a development of a new style of music. During this time, bands like The Beatles and Rolling Stones began to sing about sex, drugs, and peace, which had not previously been ... tactics taken by the military and began to voice their opinions. The Beatles were becoming extremely popular during this time and decided that they would use their music as a means of displaying their feelings towards the war. One example of this is the song "Revolution ", written by John Lennon. Lennon wrote ... ...

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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 ... the spotlight. The artists don't set themselves apart as individuals anymore. The late Harry Chapin challenged audiences with "Remember When The Music," "Remember when the music came from wooden boxes strung up with silver wire. And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire ... called f...

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... alternative style of living. The people of the counterculture were more commonly called hippies. Hippies promoted a different bright colored clothing, sex, drugs, rock music, and independent free style of living. The people of the counterculture lived in groups called communes that were set up in larger cities around the world ... the Holding Company, and Wildflower played. The people that gathered in the park that day to celebrate their drug of choice and listen to music were also encouraged to ""the color gold photos of personal saints and gurus and heroes of the underground children fl...

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... society today. There were several events in the 1960's that caused a change in American social and culture society. The 1960's affected people's attitudes, music, fashion, and education and these changes would pave the way for positive effects in decades to come. The 1960's affected politics and the economy ... but above all society and social culture. Music more or less created the hippie culture. Hippies were "a young person who rejects the mores of established society" (Puz). Many of the musicians ... The Beatles, in particular, introduced, "Beatle haircut" and so began the fashion of...

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... (Cowie and Boehm, 353). Springsteen was seen as an idol to most young white Americans because they felt as if they could relate to him and his music. When audiences first listen to Springsteen's hit single "Born in the USA," a sense of pride is felt to the song's chorus. After the ... patriotism in his songs and lyrics. This common theme is very special and helps to raise the public awareness because people want to listen to his music. Springsteen is great at raising public awareness because he implements the social issues into his great songs. The Vietnam War was a horrible time for m...

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... characters face his living corridor is also slowly exposed, revealing the not so healthy condition he appears to be in a bit more. As the music continues and Jim Morrison's lyrics and volume intensifies so does various shots of the spinning ceiling fan in Willard's room. The sounds of the ... "Coppola "s musical frame creates an appropriate bridge between the bizarre tale about to unfold and the wider context of modern cultural experience. With rock music as frame, and particularly with The Doors, Coppola has found an image to conflate nightmare with normalcy--the worst extremes of Viet...

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... ideas to match their needs. Though the generations represent two totally different aspects of American culture and history, their revolutions with sex, clothes, and music will serve as foundations for future generations to come. As the years go by between generation and generation, one facet has remained a controversial ... control pill, there was hardly any worry of the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and babies. Whether it's on TV shows, movies, or even music videos, sex has become commercialized in the "90s generation. Unlike the hippie generation, who only had access to the b...

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... in the summer of 1969, Woodstock. It was a time when everyone came together from anti-war protesters to Vietnam vets; it was three days of freedom, music, drugs, and sex Woodstock had everything. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair drew more than 450,000 people to a pasture in Sullivan county. For four days, this site became a "countercultural mini nation" in which drugs ... were all but legal, music was plenty, and love was free. The music began Friday afternoon at 5:07 p.m. August 15, and continued until mid- morning Monday August 18. The festival closed the New York State Thruway and cr...

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... American popular culture in the 1950s is very clear. "As true today, popular culture in the 1950s meant primarily movies, television programs, and recorded music as well as fiction, drama, and even fashion and comics." The Cold War is the name given to the tensions and arms race that occurred ... way associated with the Communist Party. Lastly, the influence that the Cold War had on American popular culture is evident through analysis of the popular music of the 1950s. As a result of the Cold War, American popular culture was largely dominated by anti-communist ideals and subsequently ...

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... Fabulous century 64). This festival was held for three days where young people gathered to smoke pot, listen to rock and roll, and make love (This Fabulous century 84). Through music and drugs hippies escaped from reality and into a world of their own. Marijuana, being the gate way drug, opened doors for a new drug called LSD. LSD was an intellectual tool ... ). The lyrics of these songs expressed the thoughts of many hippies and the views of how the war infected their surroundings. Hippies found themselves drawn to the exhilaration of the music that influenced them to open their minds. ...

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... this new version helps give the characters greater detail in subtle ways. The lyrical, slow moving opening sequence is a dazzling combination of cinematography, music, and hallucinatory images from the brutal and destructive war in Vietnam. The sounds of helicopters or war choppers is heard as the mind altering words ... it does a great job. An attack on Charlie's Point yield's a brutal use of Wagner's Ride of the Valkries. Colonel Kilgore and his men pump the music through loudspeakers mounted on the helicopters during the attack of the village. The helicopters have the painted words "...

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... hair and passed out flowers to passersby, especially police and pro war activists. More effective methods of being heard were huge rallies and protests in front of the White House. Music also changed in the sixties. Rock and roll became very popular. Elvis became popular in the fifties and throughout the sixties. Teenagers loved him because the way he moved suggested ... , such as The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, the Who, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin and the Beatles. Rock and roll was so popular because it was rebel music. The music helped create a generation g...

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... . Being celebrated over a week, from the article "Tale of two Tets" by Roxana Koperman and Chris Haire, Little Saigon features beauty pageants, cultural events and programs, traditional music, food and festivities. Vietnamese visitors come to perceive the taste of home and "show support to the community and how that [they] have not forgotten [their] roots" and ... its Vietnamese roots, it serves a generational bridge within Vietnamese households by featuring bilingual songs and dances that borrow from current American pop culture. It showcases an incredibly diverse range of music and perf...

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... , and keep the lower class of students into a certain knowledge base. In the 1940s the music we listened to was curtailed by the music industry. The top 40 came into the picture and no longer were music DJ's allowed to play their favorite music. From this point on, music radio would be programmed, stifled, and dictated to the public. Once again the focus of control ... ...

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... of the suburbs, inner cities, and countryside's, there was a general feeling that the hippies were a product of drugs, and rock music; this generalization could have never been more wrong. The hippie counterculture was more than just a product of drugs and music, but a result of the change that was sweeping the entire western world. These changes were brought about by various events in ... wire that linked bedazzled teenagers around the nation, and quickly around the world, into the common enterprise of being young. Rock was rough, raw, insistent, especially by comparison with the music...

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... living in interesting times. The country was going to war with a little known country, Vietnam. The youth was rebelling against the establishment. And the music of a new generation was spreading a new message of peace, love and toleration. Music would become the new forum to express one's feelings and beliefs. It would be the new gospel preaching freedom and reason. Kennedy had gotten ... dissent in the sixties, made up a big part of the Movement with their demonstrations against the Vietnam War (Dudley, William. 180-206). Also, making an impact on the decade, the music movement of the ...

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Music and Politics May 1963, looked to be like any other month in any other year. Filled with some important and some not so important events. The Chicago Cubs ... Jesse Fuller, and soon started to play with a harmonica rack. Just like Fuller did. He soon decided to go all the way with his music, and in 1961, he quit school to pursue a career in music. He started playing around Greenwich Village, making a name and after his first gig at Gerde's Folk City he got a review in the New ... musicians, together with Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary, who gave everyday people a hope o...

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