The Beatles is an English rock band who has been the most influential performer in the history of rock. Rock is the vocal music with a hard‚ driving beat‚ and heavily amplified sound. A new era of British influence began in 1964 with the American tour of the Beatles. The Beatles were popular during the Vietnam war in America‚ and used their lyrics to express their beliefs on politics and social. Their music united a generation together. The Beatles ruled the popular music in the United States.
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Religion of the Counter-Culture”‚ the birth and death of the counterculture of the 60s and 70s in the United States parallels the dates of America’s involvement of the Vietnam War‚ beginning around 1964 and ending in 1975. This is no coincidence; the counterculture was made up of the youth of this era. Students and young adults that were against all of society’s mainstream norms‚ values‚ and ideals formed subcultures within the counterculture. These subcultures consisted of feminists‚ homosexuals‚ environmentalists
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Rolling Stone Magazine said Thompson "peers into the best and worst mysteries of the American heart" and that Thompson "sought to understand how the American dream had turned a gun on itself". Furthermore that "the fear and loathing Thompson was writing about — a dread of both interior demons and the psychic landscape of the nation around him — wasn’t merely his own; he was also giving voice to the mind-set of a generation that had held high ideals and was now crashing hard against the walls of
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heavens‚ you got to try to understand. The greatness of their movement is just as small as it is grand.” Most young adults of my generation do not know who The Grateful Dead are‚ but they unknowingly dawn the apparels and slang created in the counterculture of the bands following the Deadheads. The band‚ The Grateful Dead‚ became popular in the 60s and carried out wide spread recognition and fame into the 80s. Their calming‚ peace-promoting music became popular because it ‘transported’ people‚ it
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Many of those who were a part of the Counterculture of the time were known as "Hippies"‚ a group known for their tie dyed shirts and pacifist outlook on life. The Counterculture of the time change much of America’s musical scene‚ inspiring a more folk music with anti-war undertones like the 1961 ballad "Where Have All the Flowers Gone". Female musicians also
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likelihood of economic depression‚ birth rates increased as well as marriages‚ the voice of the younger generations were finally heard‚ a counterculture blossomed‚ and citizens began leaving city slumps for suburbs. Following the Cold War‚ newly established domestic changes such as the uprise of suburbs‚ the Baby Boom‚ the Anti-War Movement‚ and the Counterculture promoted a new way of order in American social life. The creation of suburbs‚ or residential communities on the outskirts of cities‚ was
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and experienced many events that pushed him closer changing the path of American music and culture. Jerry Garcia was a member of the American 1960’s counterculture and really embodied the ideals and goals of the group as a whole. Thanks to the influence of his adolescent development and his early musical influences‚ Jerry Garcia and the Counterculture- of which the Grateful Dead were a part- were able to greatly influence the path of American culture and music. Jerome John “Jerry” Garcia was born
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Assignment #2 Urban Outfitters Continuing Case Study Part 4: Marketing a Business November 22‚ 2010 1. Explain why Sears or Wal-mart cannot effectively create a trendy counterculture image. There are many reasons that Wal-mart cannot effectively create a trendy counterculture image. First if you look at what a counterculture image actually is‚ which are kinds of subcultures that deliberately oppose certain aspects of what’s is main stream for example in the 90’s grunge where teens wore flannel
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operating mechanism used by these activists. The members of the Establishment movement comprised university students and members of the society. Due to the influence of the movement in the society‚ a new culture emerged knowns as the Hippies culture. Counterculture
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come into their mind is women and men loosely dressed with flowers and weaved hair. Despite the fact that these women and men wore these attires‚ they left a notable effect on society. The hippies formed part of the movement that was involved in counterculture with the ideology of rejecting ideas of society mainstream. The protesting of the Vietnam War marked the commencement of this movement‚ which turned later to be just more than a protest. It started in the year 1964 upon attacking of United States
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