Music: The Voice of the People

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Music The Voice of the People

• By Jennifer Lancaster

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Music is an essential part of society.

• It reflects
• Culture
• Political movements
• Societal concerns

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Music of the 60s
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Music became more experimental, radical, and
outwardly political.

• Arlo Guthries Alices Restaurant
• James Browns Say it Loud, Im Black and Im
  Proud
  
• Country Joe and the Fishs I-Feel-Like-
  Im-Fixin-to-Die-Rag

• Scott McKenzies San Francisco (Wear Some
  Flowers in Your Hair)
  
• Neil Youngs Ohio
• Bob Dylans The Times They Are A- Changin

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The change in music could be attributed to

• The Civil Rights Movement
• The Viet Nam War
• The Feminist Movement
• The drug culture
• The Hippie Movement
• Other cultural events

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Is politically charged music extinct today?
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I will examine to what extent music parallels the
contemporary historical events of the past 45
years.
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I will study music and culture for each decade

• 1960s
• 1970s
• 1980s
• 1990s
• Today

The cover of a Smashing Pumpkins album
A Flock of Seagulls
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Finished Product

• Research paper and presentation describing
• politics in popular music and where it stands
  today.

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My presentation will consist of

• An account of major political and historical
  events from the 1960s until today
  
• A description and comprisal of major music from
  each decade
  
• A final conclusion of the significance that
  politics holds on popular music today

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Pictures

• http//www.woodstock69.com/
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageSmashingPumpkin
  s-Adore.jpg
  
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Flock_of_Seagulls
• http//members.aol.com/bowtwanger/Hendrix.html
• http//www.60smuseum.org/music2.htm
• http//www.60smuseum.org/politic2.htm
• Song The Weight By The Band