Learn about the Sixties and protest songs

Okay, next on our list is the 60s. Now, I know that it's an era sort of funny things put out there. But an interesting thing about the 60s is it was, it's a decade that we really kind of associate with. People taking note, people saying, "Hey, what was going on?" and I am actually talking before the Vietnam war even. I am talking about like the early 60s.

The 60s are the era where the folk movement was born and I think that the folk movement is really interesting to bring out because it's rose as a special political movement as much it is a musical movement. People we would associate with the folk movement are Pete Seeger and a Fun Fact that Pete Seeger, he has actually also published a magazine called Sing Out. He was telling you to look around to do things which is kind of been our theme here. And so there is Pete Seeger, there is Bob Dylan and a great women to put on that was Jones.

I think a fantastic, fantastic thing about this is that up until that point kind of politically based subject matter had sometimes been infused into songs but people hadn't really been writing their own music. Guthrie sometimes but up until that point, really, people kind of started to write songs like and to put on albums that were really pointing to the government and pointing to the issues in America. And for the first time here these artist who were real artists and who could write the most beautiful melodies by putting those together with words. And for example a guy like Bob Dylan, he my quintessential example of the 60s because I think what he did was so amazing.

We know him very much as a singer but Bob Dylan is, he writes the most intense lyrics and his fantastic songs, for example, the song, Blowin' in the Wind' which was actually popularized by Peter, Paul and Marry was written by Bob Dylan. Which is why I think Bob Dylan is my quintessential figure for the 60s. He wrote so many songs that it was really hard to pick but I think my three favorites are Blowin' In the Wind and The Times They Are Changin' and the Fantastically Moving' I should Be Released.

I want to end the segment with a quote by Dylan from Blowin' in the Wind where he just asks a very simple question that I think we can still ask today, "How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?"


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