THE 60s, THE CHANGE

President John F. Kennedy was the hope of all the americans that were treated unfairly. He was the "leader of the change" along with Martin Luther King, equality between black and white people, the stoppage of the Vietnam War, and freedom were the most important things that they fought for.

The world was an uproar and each person protested in a different way. For some people it was music, for others it was art, and for others it was their style. Everyone was expressing himself somehow so a lot of changes happened.

Musicians started to ptotest through music, when they sang their songs it was like hearing them talking to the world. They started doing rock which attracted people because it was something new, something different. Everyone started dancing freely and they followed the music with their hearts. Some noticeable world stars were The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones or Janis Joplin, among others.

  Bob Dylan

Jimi Hendrix

The Rolling Stones

 
The Beatles 

 


Janis Joplin

If we talk about clothes, a lot of trendy ones appeared.

 

 

 

 

THE NEW ERA

The 60´s was considered an era of different kinds of revolutions to change the world, after those revolutions everything changed the music, sexuality, clothes, the way of thinking..

Before the 60´s women did not have duties or liberty, black people were considered an inferior race, you had to be a model person and a model son who works for his country…

The revolutions antiwar was organized by students in college campuses , every day they were more young people in the antiwar revolutions or demonstrations, they occupied parks and other public places, some of those teenagers made bombs and set campus buildings in fire.

At the same time women started to search for their equality, they wanted to have the same possibilities and opportunities like men.

Martin Luther king showed us that the dark people can be and do the same think and also better than white people.

The Beatles were the international musical icon in the epoch, they revolutionized the music .The Beatles was the first club who introduced music in a radically new rock sound.

All those aspects have been included in a beautiful film called ACROSS THE UNIVERS.

The 60s. Fighting for a better place to live in. INESS BEN DAOUD

     « Art never comes from happiness » this famous quote can be applied to the sixties, also known by “decade of changes and revolution”. The people who suffered from racial discrimination or those who fought to death for their rights and minorities rights… all these sacrifices were worth it to make a better place to life in. Their objective was to live in a world where “violence” was just a word. During these years we can highlight a member of a subculture that was originally a youth movement that emerged in the United States, hippies.

     Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic music, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs such as cannabis, LSD, peyote and psilocybin mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness. They had their own kind of music, fashion, cars… we can say that hippies are the answer from the society towards what was happening then : Vietnam war, Kennedy’s murder, movements against racial segregation, and the fight for social justice, all shocking events.

     I think that this decade reflects the pain which is caused by wars and discrimination in general. And at least I hope these experiences have taught us many things such as: we all want to live in peace and to be different is no longer a bad thing, your thought will always be yours and no one can change that. I have learned that some one cannot change a relevant idea or a wise opinion; otherwise we can change the world in a good way if we challenge ourselves and each others to stop pointless judgment. Embracing and encouraging people to be free to create, debate without using any kind of violence and to make others realize that the path that leads us to be the reflection we want to see in our society, is based on the freedom to be true to who we are. “A dream you dream alone is only a dream, a dream you dream together is a reality” –John Lennon.

The 60's

The sixties was a decade of total change. It changed the art, the music, the clothes, the ideology... People fight for their liberty and equality, and they were many revolutions for have freedom.

The best way for expressing their own self was the music. 

And The Beatles known that because with their music they changed completely the life of the other people because it was like a support for them for keep on.

The characteristic symbol of this decade was " peace".

If I can describe the 60's decade I would say that it was a decade of promise and hearbreak.

The 60's

At the beginning of the 1960s,John Kennedy became president of the United States,in the first presidential debates held on television.At 1963 Kennedy was killed and replaced by Lyndon Johnson. The nation was in shock.

The 60's were a time of free love,political and radical culture changes.
Also happened some wars,but the most important was the war in Vietnam.This war dragged on, and it divided the nation. 

At 1963, Martin Luther King said his famous speech "I have a dream" in Washington D.C.

In Europe, was constructed the Berlin Wall at 1961 to prevent east germans from escaping to the West.
In the east, on 1969, the Libyan monarchy was overthrown, and Muammar al-Qadaffi took power.
Also, Ernesto "Che" Guevara became and iconic figure for a lot of people around the world and had become a popular symbol of rebellion.

THE DECADE OF THE 60s- Khaoula anakar

NO DOUUBT, A REVOLUTIONARY DECADE IN THE WORLD

The 60s were the years of the changes in the society, the music, the way of life, the way of dressing...

WAY OF DRESSING

People changed. Young people didn’t want to be like their parents. The teens started to dress different clothes. They were invented a lot of companies of teens’ clothes. Mary Quant stands out like a designer of the mini skirt. The invention of mini skirt shocked some people but it also liked a lot of women.

REVOLUTIONS

The people changed they wanted to manifest their ideas and every think that they think.

One of the most important revolutions was the Vietnam War. People didn’t like the war so they protested. Another important fact was the Afro-American persecution.

Martin Luther king was a man who defended the rights of the Afro-American population.

MUSIC

Bob Dylan stands out. The singers become to write different songs. This songs were more liberal.

The Beatles were an example of liberal group that changed the world.

The 60's

                                                                  
                                     The 60's decade

The 60's, a decade full of changes and importants events in the world, started with the service of John. F Kennedy as the 35th President of the United States untill his assasination in 1963.

Apart from this, there were changes evident in fashion, music, toys, cars and also displayed in conflicts and new reactions to them. The Berlin wall  construction, imprison Nelson Mandela, introduction of the woman in the working world, the Vietnam war, the defend of civil right by Martin Luther King, anti-war movement, the sent off by the Soviets of Valentina Tereshkova as the first woman to the space and, obviously don´t forget Bob Dylan, a rock singer whose career began in the early 60's with songs about social issues like war and civil rights and the creation of the Beatles.

 The Beatles, the best band ever in the world whose songs never died and are still listened by millions of people every day, simply because those guys stole our minds with their beautiful lyrics in which they tried to pass to the audience and listenners some kind of messages.
We, the world's people need such us the Beatles songs in which we find messages such as make peace in world, live happily without racism. And that's what British culture tried to do from ages, so that's why I conseder it a precious diamond. 

Finally, as John Lennon said: "If someone thinks that peace and love are just a phrase that have been left in the 60's, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal"

                                                                  
                                                                      






  
           Mehaji, Yousr 4ºB

THE 60s

                                       THE SIXTIES



- The nineteen sixties began with the election of the first president John Kennedy. For many Americans, the young president represented a spirit of hope for the nation. When Kennedy was murdered in 1963, many people felt that their hopes died, too. This was especially true of young people, and members and supporters of minority groups.


This assasination and the reverend of Martin Luther King, in 1968, illustrated the turbulent and restless society. The sixties decade was a decade of change with a lot of conflicts and reactions to them and change social order. Historians describe this decade as the which resulted in the most significant transformations in recent history.

In this decade they ocurred many significant wars which are very important in the history, like the antiwar movement of USA, the war of Vietnam and increase the political tensions. The first step on the moon and the war of vietnam mark definitely the era.

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

Across the Universe is a 2007 musical based on the '60s in the USA and in the music of the British band The Beatles. The film revolves around Jude, who travels to the United States to find his father .. Here, Jude falls in love with Lucy, an American girl who joins the anti-Vietnam War movement.


This film shows the situation in which the world was then.

SOFIA OLIVA RAHALI