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    Counter Culture

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    Cited: Clark‚ M. "LSD and the Drugs of the Mind." Newsweek 9 May 1966: 59-64. Country Joe and the Fish. Woodstock. Saugerties‚ N.Y. June 1969. Gitlin‚ Todd. The Sixties. New York: Bantam Books‚ 1987. HendrixJimi. "If 6 Was 9." Axis: Bold As Love. MCA Records. 1987. Rubin‚ Jerry. We Are Everywhere. New York: Harper and Row‚ 1971. Steinbeck‚ John IV. Marihuana Reconsidered. Cambridge: Harvard UP‚ 1971. Sutton‚ H. "Summer Days in Psychedelphia." Saturday

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    Protest Music

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    era of the flower power‚ and the Woodstock music festival. Rock music replaced folk music as the face of protest culture‚ and cultural protest combined with political demonstrations. American flags were destroyed on the platform at Woodstock‚ and Jimi Hendrix played a strange version of the American national anthem that turned many older generations’ heads. The protests got even stronger after four students were shot and killed during an anti-war demonstration at Kent State‚ Ohio‚ in 1970. On May 4

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    A Brief History of Rock and Roll and The Woodstock Music Festival of 1969 Throughout history‚ major social transformations have taken place that has changed how people perceive themselves and the world around them. With each social reformation‚ cultural forms and institutions also change as well as their meanings. For Example‚ the development of recording and electronic communication within United States capitalism spurred the unique coming together of music traditions in twentieth century United

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    An Artist That I Admire

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    intelligent and talented‚ Janis never found it. Janis took her own life one night and overdosed on drugs. This is something about her I do not respect or admire. She was very depressed about it and her friends could tell. Jerry Garcia once said‚ "Jimi (Hendrix) and Janis were both very lonely. There was no one there for them when they went home." This could be part of the reason that Janis made that fatal mistake. It may have seemed that she didn’t have any happiness in her life‚ but I think that she

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    generation gap

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    If you don’t wish to hear explicit language‚ state that up front. You may also find that your children and grandchildren are big fans of your music. Rock is still the favored genre for all groups up to age 65. The Beatles‚ the Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix are popular among all age groups. So while Coldplay may leave you cold‚ you may still be able to find some areas of agreement in the oldies category. Improving Social Tolerance Correctly or incorrectly‚ older people are perceived as being

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    Club 27

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    club in which popular musicians have become a member after they’ve died at age of 27. In the following I will look at the question of whether the theories and speculations of this ’’curse’’ are right or wrong. You probably know the deaths of Jimi Hendrix‚ Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse. They all died at the age of 27. These three and many other popular musicians died of an overdose of drugs or alcohol. But do they have a connection? And is it right to put them and their deaths in the media or in

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    million hippies gathered on the 600-acre dairy farm. Woodstock of 1969 showed peace‚ love and music with surprisingly no violence at all. Some of the performers were Santana‚ the Grateful Dead‚ Janis Joplin‚ Sly and The Family Stone‚ The Band‚ and Jimi Hendrix. What made Woodstock historically significant was not the concert‚ but the event itself. Organizers never anticipated such a huge turnout.

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    Music Producer Assesment

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    joined PYE Studios which was 2 track studios‚ soon he was running first PYE four track studio. In 66’ he joined Olympic Sound Studios where he recorded many great artists including Traffic‚ The Beatles‚ The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix. He had great collaboration with Jimi engineering every album from “Are You Experienced” to “The Cry of Love”. He worked with Led Zeppelin and many great artists of modern music.2 He’s inspiration was by Bob Auger and Keith Grant. They thought him many great techniques

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    Popular Culture of the 60s

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    Beatles arrive at John F. Kennedy International Airport‚ 7 February 1964 "The 60′s were a leap in human consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi‚ Malcolm X‚ Martin Luther King‚ Che Guevara‚ Mother Teresa‚ they led a revolution of conscience. The Beatles‚ The Doors‚ Jimi Hendrix created revolution and evolution themes. The music was like Dalí‚ with many colors and revolutionary ways. The youth of today must go there to find themselves." – Carlos Santana [17] Popular music entered an era of "all hits"‚ as numerous artists

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    Music as a Social Force

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    and culturally speaking‚ music has been used time and time again to help express the many ideas of people. The common connection between people and the music that they listen to is its reliability. The reason why bands like The Who‚ The Doors‚ Jimi Hendrix‚ or other artists of the late 60’s were so successful is because they were able to produce music that related to the common feeling amongst the youth of that time frame. The youth of the 60’s were seemingly fed up with the way

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