...unauthorized assistance with it. Signed: Michael Raymond, November 30, 2013. “Write an essay interpreting how one rock group or singer's music reflected and/or influenced the 1960s.” Living Dead: The Cultural Impact of the Grateful Dead The decade of the 1960’s saw plenty of musicians become involved in the protest movement. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell, among others, wrote of the injustices of American society. While the Beatles were singing “All You Need Is Love”, the Rolling Stones wrote about the “Street Fighting Man”. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young sang about the Kent State shootings in “Ohio”. Country Joe McDonald encouraged the burning of draft cards while leading the “Fish Cheer”. However, the degree of influence each had on not just the 1960’s, but ensuing decades waned as burnout, family life, and lifestyle choices took their toll. The act whose music reflected and influenced not just the 60’s, but decades to come, was the Grateful Dead. The music of the Dead reflected the counterculture of the 1960’s, fostered a self-sustaining, traveling multicultural community, and delivered a message of peace and love for thirty years. San Francisco was the center of the counterculture movement of the 1960’s. The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood attracted thousands of youths from across the country, looking to drop out of traditional society and build a new society. In the middle of this scene, living at 710 Ashbury, were the members of the Grateful Dead. The house band for...
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... Highlights of the Study 60’s Diner is one place to remember when looking for a good place to eat. Waitresses serve food by moving around on skates, giving that all 60’s feel. We put up this business because this restaurant provides fairly fast and friendly service. We loved its uniqueness compared with the other businesses.It is designed by a group of students where they can provide a unique type of Diner that they can convince and attract different types of people. 60’S Diner is a restaurant that is a partnership business organization which is composed of seven (7) partners, namely, Antonio, Jennica; Austria, Cyrille; Baluyot, Babylyn Roxinne; Corpuz, Kim; Domingo, Charmaine; Empemano, Julie; Millena, and Maria Fatima who will contribute 500,000 pesos each for a total capital of 3,500,000 million pesos to start up the business. The partners decided to rent a space located at 480 Mayon, Sta. Mesa Heights, Quezon City. It has 300 square meters rectangular in shape and it cost 200 pesos per square meters for a total of 60,000 pesos monthly rental fee. The location is very accessible and safe. Management and Personnel Feasibility The establishment is composed of 29 employees. The management is required to put the best and right personnel in the right position to make sure that every personnel will do their tasks effectively and efficiently.The researchers adopted the line business organization. The 60’s Diner organization chart shows the...
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...Jack Paul The 60’s was an entirely separate decade consisting of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. The country had completely altered its ways of life, and young people everywhere were drastically changing. The drug craze of the 60’s was something that was never seen before in America, and it created a totally different culture of people. The United States experienced a time where people were out of control and not conforming to societies usual ways. The mentality of those in the country changed drastically. The Vietnam War created upheaval throughout college campuses and young people across the country. People appeared to be living in the moment, and not thinking about the next step in life. Joan Didion writes, “The center was not holding. It was a country of bankruptcy notices and public auctions announcements and commonplace reports of casual killings and misplaced children and abandoned homes…”(84) The economy was in a good state and it didn’t make much sense why the country was in this state of turmoil. Something was in the air; the culture changed. Teenagers were looking for a change in their lives and California was the place to go. California had this aura that portrayed both rebellion and excitement. Abandoned children and rebellious teenagers constantly flocked to different parts of California to experience some of this excitement everyone had been talking about. LSD and marijuana took over the scene; people were constantly living in an alternate state...
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...The Sixties Essay The 60’s began a period of innocence and hope. However, it soon began to behold like a time of anger and violence. Many protested to demand an end to the immoral treatment of blacks, protested to demand an end to the war in Vietnam, And protested to demand full equality for women. Many controversial issues came up rapidly. The rebellion and violence afflicted the youth of America. The effect was especially bad because of the time period in which they had developed. By the middle 1950s, most of the youth’s parents had jobs that paid well. And they were very satisfied with their lives. They educated their children with what were known as "middle class" ethics. These contained a knowledge in God, hard work, and service to their country. Eventually, much of the youth in America began to question these beliefs. They felt that their parents' values were not enough to help them with the social hardships of the 1960s. They rebelled by against their prior ways by letting their hair grow long, and wearing odd clothing. Their anger was strongly communicated through music. Rock-and-roll music had become very prominent in America in the 1960s. Many people did not approve of it because they thought it was too sexual and demeaning, and they found the words inappropriate and harmful. The beatles came out with a protest song called “Revolution”. A revolution defined is, a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.” This song was mainly about...
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...The beat movement had a huge impact and helped shape the culture of the 50’s to 60’s significantly by the writings published during this time. The themes written about in novels and poetry influenced music as it started to trickle out. As the years progressed on beatniks, which is a mixture of sputnik and beat, came out during the late 50’s as well as hippies during the 60’s. Jack Kerouac, Allan Ginsberg, and Lucien Carr to name but a few of the authors of the beat generation first met at Columbia University and with their professors help of challenging them, this led to beat generation forming. As they attended Columbia and their ideals began to form they started having experiences that led to their inspirations for writing. These writings began to go mainstream during the early to mid 50’s as they were published. Zen Buddhism also helped shape the writings. The three most popular are arguably, Howl by Allen Ginsberg, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, and On The Road by Jack Kerouac....
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...it tells you as a noun, “Fashion is a popular trend or the manner of doing something”. As a verb, it says “make into a particular or required form”. To me, fashion is a never ending cycle of various styles that people can express themselves through. It is a movement that allows individuals to show who they really are through clothes. Throughout the past 65 years, fashion evolved so much in so many different ways. I decided to take a look at those ways and to see how fashion has come about to what it is now and how some trends still remain the same until this day as a classic. The 60’s was the year that the television had a huge impact on what people were exposed to, such as fashion trends. It helped the youth stay in touch with what was...
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...Summary In 1960’s there was a practice called the 60’s scoop, in which Indigenous children were taken from their families and were adopted by non-indigenous families. This process started up in 1960 and till 1985 around 20,000 of indigenous babies were taken from their mothers. This time was a destructive time period for the indigenous families and their cultural identities. Raven Sinclair is a victim of 60’ scoop, who was taken along with her 8 siblings from their mother and were adopted by a nonindigenous family. Colleen cardinal a victim, who suffered sexual and physical abuse in a nonindigenous home in Toronto. Margaret Murray was born in Saskatchewan and was adopted, from her family. The federal government introduced 750 million of compensation...
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...There is no better time than now for those oppressed from all groups. It’s disconcerting that many reminisce about the 1960’s, idealizing it to the fullest, although the past is no ideal time for women. The hit TV show “Mad Men”, particularly season 2: episode 6, criticizes the gender relations of the 60’s, demonstrating that traditional roles are not worth keeping, and especially not for a woman’s sake, though some of the show's representation of the 60’s are critiqued to be idealized and flawed. Daily occurrences in the show illustrate problems that, although...
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...The Rolling Stones Hard Rock really started with The Rolling Stones as they developed new types of blues and hard-driving music. They were different and known for their difference, because of their way of making music and unique songs. They stood out from the rest of the other pop and blues bands and without them hard rock wouldn’t be as popular today than it is.The Rolling Stones were one of the most popular bands of the 1960’s, because their music was some of the best at the time, they were different from other bands, and the members had a long history together making music. The Rolling Stones were just starting out as a new band with little experience in music making, but they still were able to gain momentum quickly by their music being...
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...The 60’s was an age of change. This is a fact that is indisputable, and with evidence such as the incident on April 10th, 1962, it is further explorable. Former President John F. Kennedy gave a speech addressing the issue, and throughout he used multiple convincing rhetorical strategies. Using devices such as allusions, personification, and parallelism to show his clear understanding of the seriousness of the situation, as well as the goings-on of the situation itself, and to provide any small amount of security to the general American public. During the second paragraph, former President J.F.K. mentions “four… killed in the last two days”, in which he is referring to the very start of America’s involvement in the war on Vietnam. On April 8th, 1962, the helicopter containing the first...
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...All over the world and no matter what time period we are in, there will always be censorship about sensitive topics. Whether it's government officials to TV programs there will be things that need to be censored. In this time period it was about drugs and sex that were the "thing" in the 60's, so yes I think it was wrong that Jim Morrison did sing his original lyrics when ask not to. We have to think of the audience and the time period (context) that Jim Morrison was singing at the time. This was a show that families sat together and watch. The people hosting the show knew who most their views were coming from and knowing that drugs and sex were becoming popular they wanted to make sure kids did not become introduced to that. Yeah maybe...
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...The Social Events of the 1950's, 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90s Introduction Over the past 50 years, there have been many changes within the social movement in the United States. Some of these changes have been for the better and some not so great. These changes were made with the hopes and dreams of making life better for all cultures, species, families, and environment. Now the question is, how did these change come about, and what were these changes about? Social Life of the 1950's In the early 1950's was a new beginning for the United States. With the end of the Great Depression and World War II, people felt that they could start living, and have things they thought they would never have, like a home, cars, a wife or husband, and children. With the new beginning, families started moving from large city life to the suburbs, for the reason that life in the suburbs was considerable less hectic and peaceful than what city life was like. Due to the Great Depression, many men and women put off getting married or starting families for the reason of lack of money or homes, and with the War, many were afraid they might not come home. However, with the new feeling of security and peace couples were able start the family they always wanted and so began the Baby Boom years. People moving to the suburbs triggered...
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...The sixties are known as a generation fulfilled with experimenters, revolutionaries and freethinkers possessed by their own creative force to come together to tackle the political and social problems of their time. In a piece titled “The Times They Are A-Changin’: The Music of Protest,” Robert Rosenstone describes how the decade revolutionized music, not only “breaking down some of the old forms in which it was for along time straight-jacketed,” but inspiring new subject matter (Rosentone 291). Music was no longer just about love anymore. It dealt with the real world in which people live including civil rights demonstrations, drug experiences, war, interracial dating and explicit sexual encounters (Rosenstone 291). Rosenstone explains that the success of these songs in the early sixties prompted others to be written and from the second half of the decade on there was a full efflorescene of such topical songs written by young people for their peers. Many of these songs are referred to as protest songs. During this time, many American citizens chose to clearly denounce the United State’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Artists such as Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Buffalo Springfield addressed their views through their music as a surefire way to raise awareness and bring people together. It is argued that the so-called antiwar anthem of this time was a song titled, “Give Peace a Chance” by John Lennon and I couldn’t agree more. An ideal protest song that is still...
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...Film today is affected by the imagination. Most people like action or horror movies because of the sense of adrenaline. When you watch a movie you want to be interested in the genre of the movie, you don’t want to end up bored. In the 60’s film was affected politically. In the 60’s, film was affected by the Vietnam War. In historical news was the Vietnam War. The American population was greatly against this force of action. There were many two sided stories, including two differentiating versions of the Communist side of things. One of the first recognized in the Hanoi Newspaper Nhan-Dan (People), it accounted for General Van Tien Dung leading a northern troop in ending the twenty year partition, by overrunning the south. Another article talks about Communist Commander Tran Van Tra who was inside South Vietnam, he gave this memoir a few years after the first article was released. Two particular incidents of the war were given special notice, The Gulf of Tonkin event, and “Tet Offensive”. The Gulf of Tonkin, led to the Joint Congressional Resolution. Tet Offensive was accounted for in detail by Don Oberdorfer. When they wanted to...
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...U.S. Cultural Trends (50’s/60’s): •Conformity was very normal • -Although there was rebellion within literature and art -Jackson Pollock (artist) -James Dean and Marilyn Monroe -Beat generation (Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg) •Traditional gender roles •Boom period -economy -construction -increase in military spending -low unemployment rates and inflation -suburbs *G.I. Bill (lower cost for returning soldiers) *women were expected to stay in the home -baby boom (~77 million) •The Civil Rights Movement -Brown v. Board of Education -Rosa Parks (1955) and bus boycott -Martin Luther King Jr. •The Cold War...
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