Politically Influential Music of the 1960s

Folk Music

Origins

Causal Factors:

• growing social consciousness
• Kennedy
• Mass conformity of 1950s in face of a Russian Threat
• Disenchantment with false promises
• Growing racial tensions
• Repercussions and Implications of WWII
  

Goals of the Movement:

• Social Equality
• Freedom (Political and Racial)
• Democracy
• Peace

Chronology

• 1958: Kingston Trio releases "Tom Dooley"
• 1961: Joan Baez releases "Joan Baez, Vol. 2"
• 1962: Bob Dylan releases "Bob Dylan"
  Pete Seeger releases "The Bitter and The Sweet", which contains the classic folk anthem Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
• 1963: Bob Dylan releases "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan"
  Dylan and Baez sing at the March on Washington
  Dylan refuses to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show when he was prohibited from performing "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues"
  Pete Seeger's single Little Boxes reaches number one in the nation's Top 40
• 1964: Bob Dylan releases "The Times They Are A'Changin'" and "Another Side of Bob Dylan"
  During the week of April 4, The Beatles hold top five spots on Billboard's singles chart
  Joan Baez releases "Joan Baez in San Francisco"
• 1965: Bob Dylan releases "Bringing It All Back Home", his first recording with electric instruments, launching the electric Dylan controversy
  Joan Baez launches "Farewell, Angelina"
  Pete Seeger hosts a television show, Rainbow Quest, devoted to showcasing folk music

Significant People:

Bob Dylan

You better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone, For the times, they are a-changing

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Simon and Garfunkel

Last night I had the strangest dream I ever dreamed before, I dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end to war

Peter, Paul and Mary

It's the hammer of Justice; it's the bell of Freedom It's the song about Love between my brothers and sisters

Pete Seeger

Where have all the flowers gone?

Joan Baez

Show me the country where the bombs had to fall Show me the ruins of the buildings once so tall

Joni Mitchell

Still I sent up my prayer, wondering where it had to go With heaven full of astronauts, and the Lord on death row

Rock and Roll

Origins

• causal factors
• goals

Chronology:

• Significant events & actions
• watershed moments
• turning points and phases of the organization

Significant People:

• individuals both inside the organization and out who impacted it’s course