But soon love is broken, they’ll take you away<\/p>\n
Oh the wars they been growing as no relief<\/p>\n
And the old men who ruled them oh they’re just like thieves<\/p>\n
They rob from the sunshine, oh the air ain’t so clean<\/p>\n
Our rivers are dirty where once we could see<\/p>\n
<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A smile from your lady friend looking down<\/p>\n Look at that river hey did you ever shiver<\/p>\n Well the earth is broken there is no one to save<\/p>\n <\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The \u201cHome on the Range\u201d era of sunny skies and seldom-heard discouraging words is definitely over.<\/p>\n \n What this account illustrates is the atmosphere of festivals like the Newport Folk Festival. \u00a0They were attended by a variety of groups, but all came to experience the community spirit so often found in folk. \u00a0In unity, concert attendees were able to band together and share ideas. \u00a0In addition, the values of folk music are passed to the people. \u00a0While folk music quietly discusses political issues, listeners took these complaints to heart and acted out against the closest representation of the establishment–in Rubin\u2019s case, the festival security. \u00a0The sense of community gave a feeling of strength to festival-goers which was heavily expressed in their actions.<\/p>\n While folk music is overall peaceful, its political undertones were strong enough to convince listeners to act out upon the messages they heard. \u00a0Political events of the time period combined with the inclusive underground communities created an acceptable atmosphere of dissent and resistance.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sources:<\/p>\n Rubin, Jerry. \u00a0“Yippie go home!” \u00a0 East Village Other,\u00a0<\/em>Vol.3, no.3. \u00a0December 15, 1967. \u00a0Accessed from Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950–1975.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.rockandroll.amdigital.co.uk\/Contents\/ImageViewer.aspx?imageid=1099190&searchmode=true&hit=first&pi=1&themeF=Civil+Rights+And+Race+Relations%7cMusic&vpath=searchresults&prevPos=1065501<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Folk music is ingrained in a sense of community and expression of the common man that many young people of the 60s and early 70s found as representative of the times and themselves. \u00a0Folk artists played simply–typically a voice and … Continue reading ![\"Screen](\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/593\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-09-at-9.59.20-PM.png\")
<\/a>In this article from East Village underground magazine The Other<\/i>, Jerry Rubin presents his account of the 1967 Newport Folk Festival. \u00a0Rubin is so against the idea of paying for music that he decided to attend the festival by creating a fake press pass. \u00a0\u201cMusic concerts should be free,\u201d he says. \u00a0\u201cProfit is pornography.\u201d \u00a0Rubin then gets himself kicked out of the festival by passing out \u201ca copy of the free Yippie newspaper\u2026(spiritual thoughts from our anarchist-revolutionary point of view)\u201d to a pair of nuns. \u00a0The magazines are deemed to have pornographic images themselves, and the festival cops escort Rubin out, Rubin blaming it on his hippie appearance.<\/p>\n