1960s-1970s Cultural Revolution
The 1960s-1970s Cultural Revolution's Impact on Culture Today
To what extent did the cultural revolution of the late 1960s – early 1970s impact culture today?
The cultural revolution of the late 1960s – early 1970s has had a major impact on current American culture. The distress caused by the Vietnam war forced American citizens to search for a new outlet of false-happiness or an ability to forget their worries to avoid what was currently a dull and depressing war-time state of living. The people turned to drug use and a new musical style in order to distance themselves form their current situation. Their depression and anxiety was comforted with the music of the time which resonated the messages of it being okay to use drug and …show more content…
In many ways Woodstock opened the doors to the cultural freedoms employed today. The overall peaceful attitude represented from the performances at Woodstock helped expand the cultural freedoms of today. The outdoor festival was a wonderful beginning to the shift in culture we now know today and although they may not have known they would the artists that performed at the festival altered the world for everyone both then and now. Well known artists, today considered old, such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead, Joe Cocker, Santana and Crosby, Stills and Nash performed at the event and were some of the first well known musicians to embrace the forthcoming movement. Other well known artists of the time such as The Beatles, The Doors, Led Zepplin, The Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, Iron Butterfly, Jeff Beck Group, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Roy Rogers and many others were asked to play at the soon to be world altering festival, but turned down the offer for various reasons. Regardless of their missed opportunity with Woodstock many of these artists went on to join the 1960s-1970s rock revolution which opened many freedoms all over the
To what extent did the cultural revolution of the late 1960s – early 1970s impact culture today?
The cultural revolution of the late 1960s – early 1970s has had a major impact on current American culture. The distress caused by the Vietnam war forced American citizens to search for a new outlet of false-happiness or an ability to forget their worries to avoid what was currently a dull and depressing war-time state of living. The people turned to drug use and a new musical style in order to distance themselves form their current situation. Their depression and anxiety was comforted with the music of the time which resonated the messages of it being okay to use drug and …show more content…
In many ways Woodstock opened the doors to the cultural freedoms employed today. The overall peaceful attitude represented from the performances at Woodstock helped expand the cultural freedoms of today. The outdoor festival was a wonderful beginning to the shift in culture we now know today and although they may not have known they would the artists that performed at the festival altered the world for everyone both then and now. Well known artists, today considered old, such as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead, Joe Cocker, Santana and Crosby, Stills and Nash performed at the event and were some of the first well known musicians to embrace the forthcoming movement. Other well known artists of the time such as The Beatles, The Doors, Led Zepplin, The Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, Iron Butterfly, Jeff Beck Group, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Roy Rogers and many others were asked to play at the soon to be world altering festival, but turned down the offer for various reasons. Regardless of their missed opportunity with Woodstock many of these artists went on to join the 1960s-1970s rock revolution which opened many freedoms all over the