Psychedelic Rock Influence On American Culture
Music in the 1960s, especially folk music and psychedelic rock, created a stronger connection with listeners than ever before. New genres of music were being explored and music was becoming more individualized than ever before. Folk and psychedelic rock both strongly influenced American culture of the sixties, and the following decades, despite having few similarities. Folk music connected people to civil rights and anti-war movements and psychedelic rock connected people to each other; both genres caused major influence on musical performance and methods of recording to the present day.
Music of the sixties would not exist without the rock and roll movement of the fifties. In the fifties rock and roll became the most predominant and popular …show more content…
This did not cause a decline in popularity of folk music, rather it caused folk to be overlooked by many upper or middle class white people called hippies who were concerned with free love and freedom of the mind, not antiwar activism. Hippies became a main part of American culture in 1965 with acid tests and psychedelic rock. These hippies felt that they were taking a stand against their parent’s way of living and creating a new, better way. Hippies were a contributor to drug culture, known for having mind altering experiences while on Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD or acid) and were arguably the primary symbol of the counterculture movement. Some folk supporters were highly opposed to the lifestyle of the hippies and would voice this opinion while other folk supporters and musicians would conform to the counterculture …show more content…
Despite the new freedom, a majority of folk musicians did not stray from their politically influenced musical roots. However, some folk musicians, in example Bob Dylan, used this freedom to their advantage. Dylan eventually gave up his path of harsh expression and social-activism and began writing folk-rock blended music. Many of his listeners took this an an offense and said that he was conforming to society and selling out, little did they know that Dylan would be a major part of the creation of the genre Folk Rock, a genre still popular to this day. Rock artists of the decade also took full advantage of this
Music of the sixties would not exist without the rock and roll movement of the fifties. In the fifties rock and roll became the most predominant and popular …show more content…
This did not cause a decline in popularity of folk music, rather it caused folk to be overlooked by many upper or middle class white people called hippies who were concerned with free love and freedom of the mind, not antiwar activism. Hippies became a main part of American culture in 1965 with acid tests and psychedelic rock. These hippies felt that they were taking a stand against their parent’s way of living and creating a new, better way. Hippies were a contributor to drug culture, known for having mind altering experiences while on Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD or acid) and were arguably the primary symbol of the counterculture movement. Some folk supporters were highly opposed to the lifestyle of the hippies and would voice this opinion while other folk supporters and musicians would conform to the counterculture …show more content…
Despite the new freedom, a majority of folk musicians did not stray from their politically influenced musical roots. However, some folk musicians, in example Bob Dylan, used this freedom to their advantage. Dylan eventually gave up his path of harsh expression and social-activism and began writing folk-rock blended music. Many of his listeners took this an an offense and said that he was conforming to society and selling out, little did they know that Dylan would be a major part of the creation of the genre Folk Rock, a genre still popular to this day. Rock artists of the decade also took full advantage of this