USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Music. During the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, the genre of Psychedelic rock emerged as the popular type of music for participants of the Counterculture movement.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the 1960’s rock and roll became a mass movement for the first time (Watts). The American youth embraced this genre as part of their identity. While rock and roll greatly shaped the counterculture, the counterculture greatly changed the genre of music especially from the period from 1962-1969.

Detailed explanation-3: -The immediate roots of rock and roll lay in the rhythm and blues, then called “race music", in combination with either boogie-woogie and shouting gospel or with country music of the 1940s and 1950s. Particularly significant influences were jazz, blues, gospel, country, and folk.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rock ‘n’ roll influenced the counter culture movement by inspiring new ways to dress and present yourself which soon became acceptable. Long hair for men, ragged blue jeans and bead strands in hair were very common during this increasingly individualized era.