Drugs, Sex and Rock and Roll
Culture and Events of 1960-1969
Activities for students - J. F. Kennedy Assassination - Vietnam War - Civil Rights Movements - Fashion and Music
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Civil Rights and the anti war movement - Protest Songs in the USA
Create an exhibit (real or virtual) that will inform present and future generations about the people and events of importance in the struggle for Civil Rights, as well as other social events like the anti-war movement.
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Did the demonstrations,sit-ins,protests and music really change anything?
Protest Songs of the 60's - WebQuest
An Internet WebQuest on Protest Songs of the 60's
created by BRUCE C. BEDNARSKY
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Devil Music: Race, Class, and Rock And Roll
By John Bulmer
The following document is a senior history honors project for Russell Sage College in Troy, New York. This paper will identify several major themes within the development of Rock And Roll as a cultural force. It will also provide historical context and background giving the reader insights into the climate that produced Rock and its later variations. Special thanks to Professor Andor Skotnes for his guidance in the creation of this project.
Rock and Roll is a mirror, a map of cultural development and reaction.
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Everything changed in the 60's. It was a revolution and a renaissance.
Civil rights for minorities, women's rights, gay rights; environmental consciousness; Eastern thought in religion, medicine, and philosophy; homeopathy, organic gardens, Chinese herbs, a consciousness about everything natural from food to medicine; global solidarity; technology as an everyday part of our lives; the art form of rock music; a politically active youth movement; the end of colonialism; questioning and criticizing the government as a patriotic responsibility; the concept that governments lie, are incompetent, are dangerous, and can get you killed for not any particularly good reason; middle class drug use from sedatives and "pep" pills for mama to psychoactive mind expanders for little Johnny to death smack for Uncle Junkie - there was something for everyone. These things and a hundred others were introduced to our consciousness, invented, or popularized in the 60's.
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Postwar Progressive and Protest Songs
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The SIXTIES were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, Camelot, civil rights, gay and women's liberation, a controversial and devisive war in Vietnam, the first manned landing on the moon, peace marches, World's Fairs, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom.
You'll find the Kennedys, the Space Program, Woodstock, artists from Peter, Paul & Mary and Bob Dylan to Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead, Beatles and Stones, Carnaby Street, psychedelia, Martin Luther King, the Haight-Ashbury and even the radio show, Don and Deanna On Bleecker Street at this site...brought to you by MetroNews and SC Foundation and with the help of the Public Domain Foundation, AST Computer, Motorola and The Trepp Family Foundation.
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Voices of the Civil Rights Era Those who were called to action divided themselves into several major camps, each with a different approach and methods.
Malcolm X,
Of course, all of the figures here met violent ends -- perhaps that makes it
even more interesting to see three distinct visions of the future reflected in
the selected audio clips.
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RealAudio
from some of the most interesting people of our time.
Senator Joe McCarthy at the height of his brief power, 1954. The most chilling
part of this speech comes near the middle, when McCarthy names 20
"communists" and boasts that he cost them their jobs. Also notable for
his inspired use of the word "brutalitarian."
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Sixties Project Web Site
bibliographic material, filmographies, primary documents and course syllabi.
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Timothy Leary: The Declaration of Evolution
Food for thought
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The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening
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This is hard to argue with. If you don't care about history, then you don't, and I'll let you go on living your pathetic little unexamined life. If you do, the 60's are a fascinating destination for your mental time machine. It was a time of revolution, not just in music, but in art, fashion, politics, lifestyles, technology, everything.
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