Creedence Clearwater Revival

To what extent did popular culture and music affect U.S. public opinion on the Vietnam War? I.B. Internal Assessment Chavez, Miguel History HL Port Chester High School Word Count: 2,131 May 2016   Table of Contents Part A: Plan of Investigation……………………………………………………………Page 3 Part B: Summary of evidence…………………………………………………………...Page 4 Part C: Evaluation of sources…………………………………………………....………Page 7 Part D: Analysis …………………………………………………………………....……Page 9 Part E: Conclusion………………………………………………………………

These concert goers enjoyed no rules, drug use, sex, and loud rock music. Some of the best known artists from this concert were; Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Who, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, Sly & the Family Stone, and Jefferson Airplane. Another one of the main parts of the hippie counterculture lifestyle was drug use. LSD and marijuana were the drugs most frequently used

Band, the two sat on opposite ends of the spectrum. While Big Band calmed people, Rock sparked rebellion. It prompted anti-war protests in its lyrics and music posters. Musicians outraged people who were sick of the war. John Lennon and Creedence Clearwater Revival wrote anti-war songs, while guitarist Jimi Hendrix distorted the national anthem in his own rendition at

To Be Patriotic Or To Not Be To Jefferson County, Colorado school district and whom else it may concern; Your school board proposes that schools should “promote patriotic material, respect for authority, and the free market system” while it would, “in turn… avoid material about ‘civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law’” (Hannon). In today’s schools, history class focuses on both the negative and positive aspects in our history. The hardships and mistakes are not voided. The board

Deriving predominantly from blues and folk music, rock has borrowed most of its stylistic tendencies from other genres of music. From a technical standpoint, rock may be defined by the commonness of simple syncopated rhythms, or a variety of rhythms to keep the music on beat, in a 4/4 meter, or a recurring pattern that provides the beat of the music, a repetitive snare drum back beat and repetitive minor modes, or alternative tonalities derived from a familiar major scale. From a stylistic standpoint

Throughout history, music has always played a large part in military actions. Sometime the music was pro-war directed, but most of the time, it was directed to the ending of war. It is also interesting to note, that until the early 1960’s, most of the wartime music was up-beat and offered encouragement to our troops. Enter the Vietnam War, or conflict as it has been called, and everything changed Starting as early as the Civil War, music was used to influence the war. In fact, one of Abraham

The Vietnam War was the longest war has the longest US combat force participation (17.4 years). People do say that we never should've fought in this war. Napalm is a highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flamethrowers, consisting of gasoline thickened with special soaps, they were very deadly weapons used during the war. Operation Agent Orange is a herbicide and defoliant chemical, one of the tactical use

The muddiest four days in history were celebrated in a drug-induced haze in Sullivan County, New York (Tiber 1). Music soared through the air and into the ears of the more than 450,000 hippies that were crowded into Max Yasgur's pasture. "What we had here was a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence," said Bethel town historian Bert Feldmen. "Dickens said it first: 'it was the best of times, it was the worst of times'. It's an amalgam that will never be reproduced again" (Tiber 1). It

Danielle Krum May 30, 2011 Research Final Woodstock 1969 Every memory of the summer of 1969 is connected to, in one way or another, the historical event, Woodstock. The festival could not have left more of an impact on the “hippie” generation anymore than it did those three days of music and peace. The generation of the time wanted nothing more than what they got out of Woodstock. Today, people still look back on the festival and think of how well it made history without the expectance of

people around the country expressed their opinions about the idea of war, in several forms, including riots, protests, and draft dodging. Along with this form of expression and practicing of free speech, several music artists, including Creedence Clearwater Revival, Marvin Gaye, and Edwin Starr, joined in the anti-war movement by conveying their own two cents about the matter through the lyrics of catchy, impassioned songs. In the song “War” by Edwin Starr, Starr attempts to portray his negative