MUAR 392 Lecture Notes - Drug Culture, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Front De Libération Du Québec
23 May 2012
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Music festivals are the site of challenges to counter-cultural ideologies. Newport folk festival when dylan goes electric (1965) Widespread social optimism on account of rising livings standards; new technologies, social welfare (e. g. president johnson"s great society initiative), increasing civil rights, etc. 1964: marks both passage of landmark civil rights legislation in the us and gulf of tonkin incident that leads to first introduction of us ground forces fighting in south vietnam and subsequent beginnings of anti-war movement. 1969: beginnings of weathermen/weather underground, manson muders, seeming triumph of. Woodstock nation"s pease and love, but soon disaster of altamont. Kippur war between israel and egypt-syria leads to dramatic increases in oil prices; waning of older industrial activities, e. g. mining, heavy manufacturing, etc. 1978: birth of european monetary system, precursor to euro as partial solution to end of bretton- Watergate scandal increases cynicism towards government officials.
