Counterculture Flashcards
“This Land is Your Land”
Music and words by Woodie Guthrie
Released in 1951
A song about inclusion and equality. Its main message is repeated in the lyric “this land was made for you and me.”
“The Times They Are A-Changing’”
Music and words by Bob Dylan, 1963
The song touches a sweet spot between protesting for the changes mankind needs and also accepting that some things are just meant to be.
- changes pass thru people daily
- people are powerful to make a change they want to see
-the need to adapt to changes
- everything changes and everyone has their time
-asks the politicians to not turn a blind eye towards the change
-asks parents not to protest the change
“Oh Freedom”
Composer unknown. 1956
The song inspired AA to stand up together and break their chains as a racial discrimination was a serious issue in the 1960s.
Counterculture
offered an alternative to the bland homogeneity of American middle-class life, patriarchal family structures, self-discipline, unquestioning patriotism, the acquisition of propety
Woodstock
1969
A hippie music festival in rural Bethel, NY, symbolized the cultural independence and freedom of Americans coming of age in the 1960s.
