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    One cannot think of the 1960s and the 1970s without thinking of Vietnam and the social movements that went along with it. Perhaps one of the most tumultuous times in American history, the early latter half of the 20th century saw the Baby Boomer Generation, the Vietnam War, the Sexual Revolution, the Civil Rights movement, and a sharp divide between urban and rural communities as well as between citizens and politicians. These developments led to the death of innocence in American life, and the

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    just try to make the songs catchy and fun to listen to, but the songs have now lessons to teach and they don’t try to tell the people what is going on and how they feel about it. Whereas back then they used music like Fortunate Sons by Creedence Clearwater Revival that talked about how their band didn’t like the Vietnam War and that it wasn’t the rich or the politicians’ sons going to war, but the common people going to war instead. Alabama by Coltrane was a Civil Rights movement protest song that

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    Over the years, “Fortunate Son” has often been classified as a tour de force and a recipe for rock and roll. The song begins with a simple drum line followed by powerful guitar lines. It is not hard to notice a heavy twang that is said to resonate in a listener’s ears for days. “Fortunate Son” is a protest song, its restrained vocals notwithstanding. To illustrate the protest nature of the song, its vocal melody is characterized by power and verve to the extent that a listener is likely to believe

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    Among uppermost significant movment which was very closely connected with the music of 60's was a hippie movement or hippie subculture. Hippies made use of music to articulate themselves on an emotional level, mentally, and also politically. To illustrate the effect of popular music as a cultural sensation, it's neccessary to get back prior the hippies to the Civil Rights Movement. The Beat Generation, particularly those related to the San Francisco Awakening steadily submitted to the 60's era counterculture

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    Before entering the Vietnam War, President Kennedy had been warned by Charles De Gaulle, a French general, that war in Vietnam would trap America in “a bottomless military and political swamp” (Source A). Just a few years later, entrance into this very swamp resulted in a wide variety of changes in American life. The Vietnam War affected cultural aspects of American life by giving rise to the counterculture movement of the 60s and 70s, it affected economic aspects of American life by depleting resources

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    Music In The 1960's

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    Some popular music artist of the 1960s were The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Gladys, Grateful Dead, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Janis Joplin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, (widely considered protest music) Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, The Mamas & the Papas, and Buffalo

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    international attention to the occupation,but one of the aforementioned celebrities also provided a generator, a water barge, and an ambulance service to the island. Also the rock band creedence clearwater revival supported the occupation with a $15,000 donation that was used to buy a boat that was later named as the “clearwater” for reliable

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    forming and breaking into the industry. In the Sixties rock music came of age and dominated the popular music charts. Elvis Presley continued to score hits in the early part of the decade, but the music continued to diversify with music like the folk revival, the Brill Building sound, Phil Spector 's wall of sound, girl groups and surf music, all impacting the early part of the decade. The Motown, Stax and Atlantic labels brought more African-American artists to the forefront of the pop charts. By 1964

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    In early 2016, the Stones launched their América Latina Olé tour, which consisted of thirteen electrifying dates in Central and South America. As a dramatic capstone to that trip, the Stones performed in Cuba for the first time, electrifying an audience of 1.2 million fans in Havana. In another historic live performance, the Stones participated in October of 2016 in Desert Trip, a three-day superstar festival in Indio, California that also featured Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, The Who, Neil Young and

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    bands forming and breaking into the industry. In the sixties rock music comes of age and dominates the popular music charts. Elvis Presley continued to score hits in the early part of the decade, but the music continued to diversify with the folk revival, the Brill Building sound, Phil Spector 's wall of sound, girl groups and surf music, all impacting the early part of the decade. The Motown, Stax and Atlantic labels bring more African-American artists back to the forefront of the pop charts. By

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