How Did Rock Music Affect Politics?

During 1964 to 1967, the rock music became political as well as its popularity. The rock music started to focus on problems in society and challenged traditional thoughts from 1964, such as the promotion of drug use and the younger generation’s self-expression. Rock music became political because of many social, economical and political factors. Rock music affected social part of the society at that time because of their popularity and their behavior. As one of the most famous rock music group at that time, Beatles seldom say anything about politics in their early career. Later they made tours around the United States and England, which built up their popularity and affected the behavior of teenagers. As a result of this massive popularity,

Lots of people came to San Francisco looking for personal freedom and relaxed themselves on music festivals. Many signs of drugs were shown in music video of performance. As a result of that, many people were addicted to drugs because of the influence of rock stars, which affected many communities and it was worried by the older generation. This phenomenon showed to society that music is powerful enough to affect culture and it is able to make changes on social problems in good or bad ways(ppt). The counter culture made people to realize that rock music became political since it was associate with social problems and it can make changes in people’s life. The rock music had influences on economics, which made rock music more political. From 1964 to 1967, the popularity of rock starts such as Beatles, made huge impact on economic. Factories make products of them or imitated their style to get profit from their followers, such as the wig that was same as their hairstyle. (ppt picture cit) This improves economic development in many industries such as tourism and entertainment. Next, the tours that held in many countries improves the communication between countries, so that there was more economic exchange among