why do some people came to see the 1960s as a period of bad influences on British society.?

Question

Use your own knowledge and the sources below.
Source F: Part of an article in the Daily Mail, 25 May 1964
Mrs Mary Whitehouse, a schoolteacher, has launched a national campain to help writers who find it difficult to induce the BBC TV to screen their work. She said yesterday,"Authors who speak out strongly for the established Christian faith and write plays which inspire a sense of purpose and hope find it extraordinarily difficult to get their work accepted".
Mrs Whitehouse, 53, is founder of the Woman of Britain Clean Up TV Campaign. She added,"It became necessary because of the built-in censorship which the BBC exerts against much which is good and clean in our national culture".

Source G: Part of a biography entry for the singer Janis Joplin; this was published in the 1990s.
She was a rebellious teenager. She developed a powerful blues voice and sang in clubs in Houston the mid-1960s, before joining Big Brother and the Holding Company in San Franciso. She died of a drugs overdose in 1970.

Answer 1

Mary Whitehouse didn't like the 'Play for Today' aura of Britain - along with That Was The Week That Was. The young who were born immediately after World War Two in Britain were now almost reaching their twenties...a mixture of North American life of the young (Black and White) and the student influence made Mrs. Whitehouse squeal and wail to people who had been in their 20's come the beginning of the 2nd World War. Thanks to her methods of trying to have Britain return to, say, 1935, it backfired, and the American influence strengthened...be it from Presley, or Joplin - not forgetting the many in between. UK in the 1960's were seen as a 'bad influence' by elders who expressed envy that life in general was far better than they experienced.
As_it_is has a good idea...the Christian dominance was challenged. The cynicism of the early sixties must have stung the old school, but also agree with As...with the social happenings of the 80's.

Answer 2

Mary Whitehouse used to complain a lo about Doctor Who in the 60s, 70s and 80s. There was no pleasing that woman.

Answer 3

I usually look for artists who have toured with a band I like or whatever Lastfm recommends for me. BQ: Everyone who listens to music that isn't mainstream is a hipster All christian music is bad If it's not popular, it isn't good. And the fact that there's still a few nutjobs in the world who think rock & metal are evil. Seriously, why can't people judge music by what it sounds like rather than who wrote it or how popular a band is? BQ2: Hm...I guess so. Even country. Ray Stevens is hilarious. And although I don't really like electronic/overly autotuned stuff, I still like some of Owl City's stuff somehow.

Answer 4

It challenged the christian dominant order thats why... They want to hide things like full employeent, workers with rights and powerful unions to look after them, free uni education, and end to the death penalty, all the creativity, new ideas, fights for equality etc.

It opened up new ways of thinking and that scares conservatives something cronic.

Now they are back in control.

Music has died in terms of creativity and politicisation.


All people care about is how rich they look ie bling, nobody cares or thinks of anything new.


And the bad influence was actually the 80s ... When people turned from comunity and caring for each other to competition, greed, coldness and screwing over others which has tught the young to form the nasty gangs you have now

Answer 5

We were free, we were free! And we thought we could change the world. Some went under - like Janis Joplin, - some kow-towed, gave up the fight and became bourgeois (middle-class - leave me alone, I'm O.K. and I've ceased to think about wider issues) and some of us are still fighting, against racial discrimination and for human rights and world peace. Maybe we should all be placed in psychiatric facilities - but the few of us left will continue to fight for our ideals.

Answer 6

Look around you in any town or city and you will witness the outcome of the '60s. Free love ,Flower Power and all that C--p

Answer 7

the destruction of the railways
the rise of the car and jet aircraft
poor quality housing
high rise flats

Answer 8

Will there be a prize? Yes-I Janis...

Answer 9

First of all: Who the **** are you? Are you Provo-agent?