Articles by Daniel Martin
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Music and Politics: How Much Will It Matter Again?
Daniel Martin - CounterPunch,
13 Mar 2017
Back when I was in college, rock and roll historian Barry Drake came and gave a lecture titled “60’s Rock”, When the Music Mattered”. At least here in the United States, these were years of great unrest on a societal and political level. Whether it was the civil rights movement, the assassination of our greatest leaders, or the Vietnam War and its protests, these events were accompanied by and often directly interwoven with the music of the time. And heck, the decade gave us the Beatles and Motown, and birthed the sounds we currently consider “classic rock”, as well as other innovations.
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