The shape of the sixties

The shape of the mid- sixties Abstract This essay is in sum total talking or so the idea of rotation. In the 60s there was a great deal of hardship, be it from the Civil Rights Movement to the war in Vietnam. The 60s were a truly revolutionary time, raft proficient(a) of new ideas coming from different parts of the world. This essay bequeath show you through music, film and oral communication how a revolution occurred in the 60s. The Shape of the Sixties Jefferson Airplanes co-founder, Paul Kantner once said If you can remember anything about the sixties, then you werent re eithery there. Sure, The Sixties may have got been safe been a decade long party, solely there was a different billet to this duration. The counter-culture that was the sixties undoubtedly revolutionized the world that we life in today. The music was edgy, and to a great extent drug influenced but marked the beginning of a whole new sound. The sixties also marked a new age of film business based on b oth technology and content. The speeches were controversial but shaped a better world. This era was heavily filled with controversy, scandal and crime but through this it changed the world.As Cat Stevens warbles in the verse Peace Train, Ive been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as ace. And I believe it could be someday its going to come. What Cat is trying to say here is that she can see change is coming, and the world is going to be a better luff, a place of equality. However America in the sixties was a in truth uneasy time, with the Vietnam War as well as the Civil Rights Movement. Both of these were both capacious catalysts for all of the protest in the sixties. At the end of the Civil War many groups were created in order to achieve this equality but the process was sorely slow. It wasnt until this era however that hundreds of old age of work finally began to pay off. The hippie movement stood up in agreement with this change, and with them came the support of t he music. In 1963 Bob Dylan released the poem Blowin in the Wind a non-specific song but very related to the uneasy times. This song is essentially a universal plea for humans to watch out from our mistakes and to have freedom. The song has being covered numerous times and is a staple for any anti-war song. The second stanza of the song goes How many years can a mountain exist, Before its washed to the sea? Yes, n how many years can some people exist, Before theyre allowed to be free? Yes, n how many times can a man turn his head, Pretending he cool it doesnt see? The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind, The answer is blowin in the wind. What Dylan is saying here is very clear, the people he is talking about is any group that has been oppressed or alienated should now be free, for everyone deserves freedom. The music of the sixties was non lone(prenominal) groundbreaking and revolutionary, it was also changed the shape of music. Something happened in the sixties that was tokened as the Britsh Invasion, the British musicians essentially took over the American music industry and formed it into their own. This all started when The Beatles first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and took off into superstardom. In 1967 The Beatles released the album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, a simply amazing record that was the hymn for the summer of 1967. This marked a new age and a new sound for what music was and will be. The sixties are when lyrics became edgy and people started to erect up against the government and oppression. In 1968 The Beatles released the song Revolution, a song with much apt to the current time. In the second verse it goes You say you got a very solution.Well, you know. Wed all love to see the plan. The Beatles are asking the government for their so called plan of action.1964, Dylan releasedWith God on our Side this is another protest song that traces the history of Americas conflicts dealing with all sorts of past wars. The lyric s are a vicious attack on the attitude that claims a war is vindicated. Music played a huge role in making the sixties a revolutionary time, and without these extraordinary people much less would have been accomplished in this era. through music you can see that media influence plays a film role in bring about revolution, film in the sixties represented a decade of fun, music, fashion and countless social change. In the sixties was the first time that film began to really be about controversial subjects. The film dupe (1961) by director Basil Dearden was one of the first films to ever speak of the word homosexuality. This daring film was so groundbreaking and non-judgemental in that it talked about homosexuality in the early sixties. In fact when filming this movie Britain still had anti-sodomy statutes as law. Actions like these are truly the ones that make our world a better place, when people can stand up and fight against oppressive laws and belief. Without people who have the courage to stand up we would live in a painfully oppressed world today, things like slavery, alienation, segregation and even to the extreme, genocide, would still be very active in our world today. In the film industry, just as in the music industry there was a British Invasion this came much from the new interest that Americans had in British fads, fashion and culture. The Beatles released trine different films between 1964 and 1968, each of which was fitted to get across the music and its meaning to the viewer. Some of the controversial films that came out during this era are Billy Wilders satirical political farceOne, Two, Three (1961), Seven Days in May (1964), The Spy Who Came in From the C gaga (1965). These films came out and really displayed a more bleak side of the war. These films allowed viewers to see a more realistic, less politically influenced perspective on what was truly happening. In the mid sixties a film play along named (AIP) American International Pictures began to produce more youth orientated counter-culture films such as The Wild Angels (1966) and The Trip (1967). These films gave many a view of the counter-culture that was in America, it allowed people who were apart from the hippie movement to become a part of it. The Trip is about a television commercial director and his drug dealer it is full of special trippy effects and is a truly psychedelic experience. Film in this era was unquestionably remarkable, it was a time of groundbreaking new ideas, and daring old ones that finally had the chance to come out. The sixties changed film for the better and allowed all audiences to view a different side to every story.If you ask anyone about the sixties one thing they will probably mention is one of the most remarkable men of all time. On August 28th, 1963 Martin Luther Kings I Have a Dream speech sparked a fire that would lead to the end of oppression against the black community in America. Mr. King is known today as one of the best or ators and his speech was so successful because it dramatically increased awareness of The Civil Rights Movement. The third paragraph of Kings speech is this But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly spunky by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a gigantic ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. King (1963). What king is saying here is very clear, blacks were promised freedom and oppression was going to be eliminated, as they stand there however, it is clear that this is not the case blacks are still being oppressed on a day to day basis. Martin Luther Kings power of speech w as able to change this however, he confronted the world of its wrong doing and they realized it. King ends the speech on some of the most powerful wrangle ever written, words of change, words that brought about a revolution When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Gods children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, Free at last free at last thank God Almighty, we are free at last. King (1963). Without this man, I wonder where the world would be today in terms of segregation. Would South Africa still have abolishment of the blacks? Would slavery still exist in America today? Would we still have political and social upheaval nearly every waking moment? Incredibly this was not Kings only subject that he talked on, he also delivered numerous speeches in an anti-Vietnam perspective. Martin Luther King was a man who really cared for everyone, he truly believed in equality. In a speech he gave to his church about Vietnam he says Tonight, however, I wish not to speak with Hanoi and the NLF, but rather to my fellow Americans, who, with me, conceptualize the greatest responsibility in ending a conflict that has exacted a heavy price on both continents.King (1967). King believes that well in his words, We must continue to raise our voices if our nation persists in its perverse ways in Vietnam. King (1967). Sadly on April 4th, 1968 we were without this man, as he was assassinated in his soon to be free world. Martin Luther King was one of the most powerful speakers, he was able to use this to his advantage and could communicate his revolutionary ideas to a world-wide audience. umpteen of the people who made the sixties the incredible time that they were are no longer with us today. Sure, some people may even say that the sixties werent in f act a good decade. Be it the war, or the oppression the abundant use of illegal substances or the growing counter culture. Regardless this era was simply revolutionary, even through hardship and trouble the people who lived in this decade changed the world. Music developed a groundbreaking new sound full of meaningful and powerful words. The influence of the sixties still lives in some of the great music that is being produced today. The Films were controversial and courageous in their content. This is still ordinary in modern films in that you can produce a film on just about any given topic. The Speeches, although only powerful by few were able to change nearly an entire worlds view. Martin Luther King made the first groundbreaking steps in the Civil Rights Movement and was able to lead the way. Kings words and power still live in some of todays speakers and he will always be respected by the world. The sixties was an era that was able to push its way through numerous obstacles a nd turn them into something better, this decade was a revolution.