appeared to be more interested in alternative music, literature, poetry and were also more inclined to experiment with drug taking. This trend was to increase and lead to the hippy movement of the 1960's.
             The 1960's is a more publicised era, the culmination of the previous decade and more liberated thought by young people meant that what had previously been a sub-culture became popular culture. From a point of view of mass communication a revolution was taking place, most homes had a television if not certainly a radio. A diversity of cultures that had previously not existed was being brought to homes around the world. Consumerism had exploded and with that the human desired to be different, was bringing more diversity into previous genres and cultures. Illicit substance taking was on the increase and was becoming synominous with music styles, but attitudes towards it were not relaxing within the establishment. This was not seen as a problem within the youth generation as it co-existed with the rejection of what had gone before. Music was becoming a f
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