ones, but also in
             folk and scores of other types of music that became popularized through their protest
             Like almost every other aspect of American society, music was drastically
             changed by the sixties. New forms and interpretations emerged across the country, and
             with all of them came a voice that spoke for the generation they fostered. Like the
             troubadours who sang the news through the Dark Ages, musicians of the sixties spread
             the word of a new dawning in America. As the snap transition from relaxed,
             grandfatherly Dwight Eisenhower to the energetic and brisk Jack Kennedy in Washington
             signaled a sea change in politics and government, music broadcasted similar news that
             "The times, they are a-changin". The decade that shaped so much of American music
             found that as these new styles became immensely popular, the music, itself, began to
             reshape the decade and war in Vietnam (Neary 92) .
             In the early sixties, folk started as a little known but hated form of music. Singers
             and songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Peter,
             Paul and Mary, became familiar figures at anti-war demonstrations. From the small
             coffee houses of Cambridge, Massachusetts and Berkeley, to the rising urban folk scenes
             in The Village of New York City, folk found its place in protesting the American
             involvement in the war. Bob Dylan would later write, "I just wanted a song to sing and
             there came a point where I couldn't sing anything. I had to write what I wanted to sing
             because what I wanted to sing, nobody else was writing." Dylan's moving lyrics in
             "Masters of War" chastised the government for creating the conflict so greedy
             businessmen could manufacture weapons and fill their pockets with the earnings.
             --"There's one thing I know though I am younger than you/ Even Jesus would never
             forgive what you do". Dylan's countle...