How The 1970s Music Affected Culture

1970s Music
Did you know that the band Led Zeppelin’s first choices for a name was The Mad Dogs and Whoopie Cushion? Or that famous bands like The Beatles or The Sex Pistols were the cause for mainstream fads and rebellion? The 1970s was an era of cultural expansion and pop. Beginnings and ends for famous and soon-to-be famous stars showed here; like the disbanding of The Beatles, or the start of Michael Jackson’s career with The Jackson 5. This decade further evolved rock, blues, country, and pop from the 1960s and even the 1950s. This is 1970s music and what affected it, and how it affected culture in the United States. There were many things going on at the time in the U.S. involving war, politics and government, and many things here
The Vietnamese War brought hardships for everybody, and those hardships drove some songwriters to write about the troubles. These people include Simon and Garfunkel, Arlo Guthrie, and Bob Dylan. They created more mellow sounds in their music which really expressed the depression and sadness of conflict. Drugs were making their way everywhere, and music was no exception. Artists would write about the feelings of being high on drugs, and they would create sounds that vividly expressed that. An era of addiction wasn’t always seen as fun and wild, though. Songwriter James Taylor sung about his depression and addiction to heroin, as well as what it was like having to spend time in a mental institution. There were many political conspiracies throughout the 1970s, and these sometimes made it into the musical culture. Some beliefs based on a tyrannical government arose, and songs that were fiercer appeared to encourage those who might want to stand up against it. There were many bad things going on at the time, but they still highly impacted