music then and now...?

Question

Last term, in my GCSE history class, I learnt that singers like Janis Joplin who sang about 'sex, drugs and war' were one of the many things that triggered the Student's Movement during the 1960s. What songs by her make direct reference to this, and how do you think it compares to songs released nowadays about sex and drugs?

Answer 1

1. Joplin was a minor player in American pop culture's hostility to the US establishment (and no more significant than the Mamas & the Papas). Her death, from a drug overdose, had more impact than anything she ever sang.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamas_%26_Papas

2. Joplin did not trigger any students' movement - forget musicians, and look to:
(a) SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), and
(b) the Yippies (Youth International Party).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yippies

3. The musical protest of the late 1960s which mirrored the anti-war movement, civil rights, and the general clamour for a more enlightened society would not have been possible without the work of musicians in the earlier part of the decade, like Bob Dylan especially, and the Byrds to a lesser extent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_dylan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_byrds

4. They in turn owe a huge debt to Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_seeger

5. Any point in time is just a frozen frame of the development of social movements. So to understand the significant protest actions of the late 1960s (such as at the Democratic Convention in Chicago 1968), you have to know of, and comprehend, what happened before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_Convention

6. All links given here are to Wikipedia, but you can find more comprehensive accounts if you try a search of your own.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I don't know about janis, but you maybe should listen to country joe and the fish they were popular in the student movement. also jefferson airplane, jimi hendrix playing star spangled banner and the doors.


songs today compared seem to support and enjoy the hedonistic idea of drugs rather than using them to change society, the closest similarity to the sixties idealism would be the 'ecstasy' times of 1988.