g one more step towards their freedom that they waited so long for.A common ideal was slowly being formed in most youths minds that love and respect are the only things you need to make a community thrive. Youths started to grow their hair out, grow long facial hair, and they started wearing techni-colored clothing. Many people who participated in this counter culture were middle to upper class suburban kids who wanted to throw it all away and live it simple like the Beat generation poets had stated in their works at the time and like Bob Dylans lyrics. Some did actually strive to live the Utopian lifestyle giving up everything to move to the country and live off of them selves. Many new religions and religious techniques were being used by the youth such as meditation, yoga, and Buddhism. Music and popular fashion and trends were starting to shape the nation and almost became symbolic of its changing ways.Music helped define this era and youth movement because it was an indictment on the scene of what was conventional and what you could and couldnt do in music. People and bands were starting to experiment with new sounds which drew attention to the fact that they could do something new every time they played. Pink Floyd tested the waters (no pun intended) of early techno and trance music that is so popular today. Computers were being used to produce beats, rhythms, and new sounds that boggled the minds of this new generation. The Beatles started to act like the Grateful Dead experimenting with the psychedelic sound which also spawned he Haight-Ashbury district of California. Bob Dylan spoke as the voice of this new American generation with his folk style of guitar. Then there was protest music which was prevalent when Vietnam hit full force in such people like Joe Cocker.Poetry was being incorporated into the music scene also with the help of some of the Beat generation like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Neal Cassidy. A...
