1960's and the music

The 1960’s was a special decade, not just emotionally but musically as well as politically. The early 1960’s there was a slow beginning of protest songs but the escalating war in Vietnam made more musicians write songs with a message. It was a time of war, sex, drugs, rock and roll and most of all movements that helped shape the latter years of the twentieth century. Music was one of the major ways that people united to make a difference, and try to change their society. The war in Vietnam was a major international issue during the late 1960’s and within the United States the struggle still remained for civil rights and woman’s rights. In 1969 Woodstock brought a half a million people together for three days of peace and music. After everything that happened in the 1960’s, Woodstock showed the people of the United States that peace was still a possibility and it was ultimately the music that brought them together. Today’s society it is somewhat a glimpse of what the 1960’s were, we are at war and there seems to be an upheaval in society. Protests are taking place, not at the same interval as in the 60’s but people are showing that they want to be heard and that their government is not listening. Many people feel that our

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