Over the course of the 1960s, causes to protest were not uncommon. For events such as the Civil Rights Movement and especially the Vietnam War, people fought, people cried, and people rioted, peacefully and not. All of this is documented today in the music that came out of that era.
The biggest inspiration for protest music in the sixties, even greater than the Civil Rights
Movement, was the Vietnam War. Starting around 1957 and lasting till 1975, standing as America’s longest war, Vietnam was first established when US President John F. Kennedy showed support of South Vietnam, whose neighbor, North Vietnam, was trying to take over and convert them to communism. Three different presidents were in office over the entirety of the war, JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. With the most controversial decision-making coming from Lyndon Johnson, whose presidency by 1968 saw 30 billion dollars spent on the war a year and large numbers of …show more content…
He wrote some of the first popular anti-war songs of that era, songs like Blowin’ In The Wind and Masters of War in 1962. Some protest songs fit into different categories, songs like Say It Loud: I’m Black and I’m Proud (that’s chorus was sang by multiracial children,) and A Change Is Gonna Come were based off and protested against racism and were important during the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties. Another category was women’s rights with songs like the hit by Aretha Franklin, Respect. Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival was in support of the troops and protested drafting. The lead singer of the band believed some men could avoid being drafted due to Richard Nixon perhaps favoring an important parental figure. Two popular anthems or sing-alongs that riled up crowds were Give Peace A Chance weak support of the war and, of course, the protests and riots against it. Music became incorporated into and involved in said things quickly and
The biggest inspiration for protest music in the sixties, even greater than the Civil Rights
Movement, was the Vietnam War. Starting around 1957 and lasting till 1975, standing as America’s longest war, Vietnam was first established when US President John F. Kennedy showed support of South Vietnam, whose neighbor, North Vietnam, was trying to take over and convert them to communism. Three different presidents were in office over the entirety of the war, JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. With the most controversial decision-making coming from Lyndon Johnson, whose presidency by 1968 saw 30 billion dollars spent on the war a year and large numbers of …show more content…
He wrote some of the first popular anti-war songs of that era, songs like Blowin’ In The Wind and Masters of War in 1962. Some protest songs fit into different categories, songs like Say It Loud: I’m Black and I’m Proud (that’s chorus was sang by multiracial children,) and A Change Is Gonna Come were based off and protested against racism and were important during the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties. Another category was women’s rights with songs like the hit by Aretha Franklin, Respect. Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival was in support of the troops and protested drafting. The lead singer of the band believed some men could avoid being drafted due to Richard Nixon perhaps favoring an important parental figure. Two popular anthems or sing-alongs that riled up crowds were Give Peace A Chance weak support of the war and, of course, the protests and riots against it. Music became incorporated into and involved in said things quickly and