Throughout history, the music of the era has oftentimes reflected political ideology and trends. In American culture, arguably the first notable instance of musical politics surfaced in the Vietnam era, where songs such as Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Give Peace a Chance by John Lennon...

Rock n' Roll WarFan blades of a Huey rotating slowly above a troubled dreamer, Jim Morrison'svoice singing "The End"... Young soldiers on their way to Vietnam in the summer ofWoodstock, marching onboard their plane at Ft. Dix singing "Fixing to Die"... Cassetterock n'roll in one ear and door-gun f...

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...

The 1960's were a time of major political and social change. These changes were primarily fuelled by the youth of the time. Their parents had come from life in both the great depression of the 1930's as well as World War II, and were on a whole more conservative than their children, a fact the young...

Massive black rebellions, constant strikes, gigantic anti-war demonstrations, draft resistance, Cuba, Vietnam, Algeria, a cultural revolution of seven hundred million Chinese, occupations, red power, the rising of women, disobedience and sabotage, communes & marijuana: amongst this chaos, there was ...

The Vietnam War – no other war in America's history has caused discord among our society. With over 50,000 dead, the memories of this war far away in the Asian continent redefined our culture in the years to come. Even the way war-making policies related to the Middle Eastern conflicts of...