children. (Britannica) The sixties were about assassination‚ unforgettable fashion‚ new styles of music‚ civil rights‚ gay and women’s liberation‚ Vietnam‚ Neil Armstrong landing on the moon‚ peace marches‚ sexual freedom‚ drug experimentation‚ and Woodstock. All of these components caused a revolutionary change in the world of popular Music. <br> <br>The beginning of Rock and roll started with The Twist. by Chubby Checker This song changed our dancing moves. Other dance songs that helped this period
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The festivals were usually several days long and had a streamline of musical talent. In 1966‚ The Trips Festival of San Francisco was a three-day concert located in Longshoreman’s Hall. The performances were enhanced with light shows and the common use of drugs. Ken Kesey‚ the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and others organized the festival and also provided beverages mixed with LSD. The
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Popular Culture in Australia throughout the 1960’s was very heavily influenced by superpowers such as the United States and the United Kingdom. As popular culture (often shortened to “pop culture”) is ever changing‚ it was different in the 1960’s to any period of time. Not only was popular culture different to popular culture in other decades but the early 1960’s were very different to the late 1960’s. When people think of the 1960’s‚ the main theme and stereotype is along the lines of “the hippie
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Byron Johnson Professor Briggs Music 24B 3 December 2014 Stop and Listen to the Music “War‚ what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.” These are the lyrics from the 1969 smash hit titled “War.” Edwin Starr wrote this song in protest to the Vietnam War and it expressed many peoples’ feelings towards the war through a catchy melody. Music can have a profound impact on social politics‚ and can serve to connect people. Many of the songs written in the late 1960s captured the American public’s discontent
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on a parcel of farmland for what ultimately became a free concert (much to the surprise of the show’s concerned financiers). It’s no hyperbole to state that Woodstock is a giant among documentaries (and concert films)‚ much as the event itself remains a colossus among concerts. Woodstock has the good vibrations. It delivers just what the film’s subtitle promises: Three Days of Peace and Music. Yet what I admire most about the movie Woodstock is that director Michael Wadleigh depicts two engaging stories
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This resulted to attempts in replicating the effects of these drugs through music. Some music festivals that highlighted the psychedelic influence on musicians were the Woodstock Concert of 1969 and the Monterey Pop Festival. Both represent the climax of the countercultural movement of the 1960’s (“Summer of Love and Woodstock” n.p.). It must also be noted that not only the musicians were under the influence of LSD‚ but so were the audience. It was believed that being “high” heightened the experience
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to learn four chords and I ended up learning how to play the rhythm and blues. Although my parents held the preconceived notion that music would lead me to drug addiction‚ I proved them otherwise. When I was 8‚ at my aunt’s request‚ I attended a concert by “Popular Front” folk musician Pete Seeger‚ and found myself strongly moved by his music to the point that I began performing his songs publicly. My first public performance was in Saratoga‚ California‚ for a youth group from Temple Beth Jacob‚
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Final Project 1960 Time Capsule Kaplan University January 12‚ 2014 After receiving a very intriguing call from my colleagues‚ about a great time capsule find‚ I made my immediate departure for a little place we call the Red Zone previously known as Colorado. As I arrive I help my colleagues to unearth a time capsule from the period of the 1960s. We carefully opened the capsule that had intrigued us all so much to find five articles inside that told a great story of our past and of the decade
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artist with her own backing groups‚ The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band. Her first ever large scale public performance was at the Monterey Pop Festival; this led her to becoming very popular and one of the major attractions at the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour. Joplin charted five singles; other popular songs include: "Down on Me"; "Summertime"; "Piece of My Heart"; "Ball ’n’ Chain"; "Maybe"; "To Love Somebody"; "Kozmic Blues"; "Work Me‚ Lord"; "Cry Baby"; "Mercedes
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caused by the events overwhelming the country. The popular Rock ‘n’ Roll music‚ along with the bands themselves‚ during the “Swinging Sixties” had a great deal of influence that affected the counterculture‚ the psychedelic scene‚ and the endless concerts/festivals from the beginning of the decade up until the early seventies. The origin of Rock ‘n’ Roll‚ which dominated the music scene in the sixties‚ dates back to the late fifties and early sixties with the underlying roots of folk‚ rhythm
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