The Cultural Movement in the 1960s History Essay
When discussing the relationship between popular music and sociopolitical changes in the 1990s, historians and critics have tended to fall between two opposing poles. On the one hand, there is Arthur Marwick's approach, which is reflected in Jon Savage's recent book: The Year the Decade Exploded. In Marwick's international, A Brief History Of The Hippies, Movement That Changed America. An intriguing look into the counterculture of the hippie movement that brought peace, drugs and free love to the United States. In the mid-1960s, an unprecedented hippie counterculture blossomed in the United States. Warhol effectively draws on this source of images, appropriating banal subjects to comment on the visual saturation of American society. Fogle notes that this work was created from images that had been viewed so often by American society that the icons became, in a sense, invisible, until Warhol.