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 In the 1960s, teenagers and young adults began what was known as the “counterculture” movement. This movement sparked a rebirth in old and new ideas: such as the revival of folk-music, the growth of rock and roll, and the experimenting of psychedelic drugs (LSD, shrooms, marijuana). These groups of citizens were also opposed to the Vietnam War, and were the backbone to major antiwar protests throughout the nation.
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Starting in the beginning of the 1960s, rock music began to expand its influence into many other subgenres. Folk-rock, blues-rock, and jazz-rock fusion were three of the major subgenres to the general rock and roll movement. Rock and roll was also influenced by artists from Britain (British Invasion), and other European countries. Rock and roll was the music of the counterculture movement, and promoted the use of drugs along with new styles of dress.

Folk-music had always been known to be the music of the working class citizen, and was the music that protested problems of the era. There is no real origin to folk-music, but it the time frame which it began in America was during the 1930s. Folk artists during this time sang about their rough work environment during the Great Depression. Some of the movements more famous artists are: Woody Guthrie, bluegrass singer Bill Monroe, and Del McCoury. Folk Music had its revival again in the 1960s, but this time instead of singing about working conditions, artists sang about civil rights and the Vietnam War. Many folk artist superstars arose from this era such as Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Cat Stevens. These artists promoted a promise for change, and for that received negative criticism from the government. The revival of folk-music faded though in the 1970s, as the US left Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement began to see major strides.

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