MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Deadhead, Family Values, Port Arthur, Texas
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Demographic: college age, mostly white, middle class (grew up in late 1950s and early 1960s) In the 1950s there was economic stability in the 50s, for the white middle class the goal was to create stability in all kind of ways. There was a social stability that was fairly rigid. In that kind of dominant culture you were straight, married, had 2-3 children, dad had 9-5 job. (leave it to beaver). Veering off the path in any way was costly, you were an outcast or couldn"t get a job etc. Kids who grew up in this setting started to rebel against the structure around this society. They were the kids that became the counterculture in the 1960s. Their rejection hooks into a lot of other thing that were happening: civil rights movement. After ww2 russia and us emerged as really powerful nations; 1950s and 1960s was known as the cold war,
