s and folk music on campuses lead to the rise of folk songs called message songs (Szatmary 1996). Songs like Blowin in the wind by Bob Dylan began opening up the minds of the youth to the social problems facing America such as the civil rights movement. The Rascals People Everywhere Just want to be Free, Joan Baezs We shall overcome, and Dylans The times they are a changin were message songs that helped start the firestorm of politically charged music that fueled a revolution and a generation (Baggelar, Milton 1976). Songs of the decade reached for the poetic, symbolic, and the mystical to better pinpoint the mood of the times. With the assassination of President John F. Kennedy folk music movement began to fraction. The disillusionment and shock caused by the assassination had an especially strong effect on the youth (Anderson 1996). Drug abuse became a trademark by the youth the hippie movement (Steinbeck 1971). The use of drugs was glorified in many ways by bands like The Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and Pink Floyd. This music became known as acid rock (Szatmary 1996). The music fashioned the ideas of peace and love along with it a dark trend. San Francisco was bursting with rock activity and it became the center for the hippie culture. The heart of the hippie activity was the Haight-Ashbury district (Burns 1990). Thousands of middle class, college educated youths flocked to San Francisco to demonstrate their counter cultural beliefs. These summers began to be known as Summers of love (Szatmary 1996). They lived on the streets, did drugs and sat in groups strumming their guitars (Frike 1989). They wore flowers in their hair leading to the nickname flower children and phrase flower power. Songs like White Rabbit by the Jefferson Airplane told the stories of their mind-altering experiences; one pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small, and the ones that mother gives dont do anything ...
