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Originally Posted by neverending
The "hippie movement" was a huge topic of discussion on all fronts in the 60s. The nightly news had reports every day of what this rock star or that political activist was doing. I have a distinct memory of watching some news story about Grace Slick and something she did, on the news, and thinking "wow- that's really cool."
Radio was still a vibrant, living media then, unlike today. Everyone had a transistor radio and we listened constantly. Radio DJs were bastions of hip lingo and were far more influential in spreading words and phrases. People- I WAS THERE.
I'm not denying that movies had some influence- but the 60s was such an important, chaotic time with so much going on in every different aspect of life- spirituality, politics, culture- it's a mistake to give too much weight to movies.
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i believe the 60's was the turning point where music became more influential than movies. The 50's was kind of a tie - because musicians were influencial because of the movies they were in (Elvis being the most glaring example)
a lot of that musical exposure is attributed to TV ... where people finally got to see the musicians....
thats a funny change too - in the early days of TV musical shows - or variety shows made up for a huge percentage of what was on. now it's been split off into seperate channels.
oh yeah .. i was there too :)