In my essay I would like to concentrate on the cultural movements of the sixties. This era is characteristic for its different attitude to life, rebellion and society provocation. It is associated mainly with young generation of that time and the term youth culture was often used. When the sixties began, youth culture meant the way adolescents lived. ***233.
Music became for the young a media by which they could identify themselves as a distinct group in society with unique values and aspirations. So-called generation gap was kind of a social conflict between the young and the elders, which was caused by different opinions and attitudes towards life. But not all young were rebellious. Some of them felt quite comfortable in the system and its norms. On the other hand many older people joined the rebellion and some of them were often over thirty were the generation gap was supposed to begin. Later on the term young culture was replaced by term counter-culture because it could no longer sufficiently describe the movement, which became so broad and miscellaneous. Counter-culture embraced everything new from clothing to politics. .
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Although children and adolescents in the sixties watched television a lot (according to surveys approximately fifty-four hours a week) it didn't influence them as much as popular music, folk music and rock music. Large scale of enthusiasm for folk music began in 1958 when the Kingston Trio recorded a song called Tom Dooley', that sold about two million records. This encouraged less commercial performers like Pete Seeger, known especially for his enormous repertoire of message songs, or Joan Boez. The folk music was actually a kind of forerunner of the counter-culture and its rock and roll style. Rock and roll music was often seen as rather morally reprehensible on the other hand folk was mostly regarded as a gentle music. Therefore it was used in protest songs as it didn't offend many people.
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