1. 60's and 70's Protest Songs: Leading or Reflecting
The 1960's was home to the Sexual Revolution, Woodstock, the Civil Rights Movement, the British Invasion and the Summer of Love. ... Shakespeare wrote; " If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die." ... Musicians were sickened by love songs, but the appetite did not die. ... told people a story about how the leaders of change had to stop dying at the hands of those who hated them and what they stood for. Or "I feel Like I"m fixin" to die Rag" by Country Joe and The Fish, And it's 1-2-3-4 , What are we fighting ...
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