| FASHION http://www.wtv-zone.com/dpjohnson/beautyandthebouffant/ This is a picture website of the most glamorous hairstyles of the 1960s, as worn by various female celebrities of the past and present on television, and in the movies. http://www.vintageblues.com/history6a.htm The post World War II Baby Boom created 70 million teenagers for the 60s, and these young adults swayed the fashion, and the fads. The teenage influence caused the hemlines to creep up, and most teenagers were wearing mid-thigh length shifts as daywear. http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/hair-style.htm Whether "long, straight, curly, fuzzy" a great deal of attention was paid to getting just the right look. Bouffant is the word that describes all the poofy hair styles. http://www.geocities.com/FashionAvenue/Catwalk/1038/mens.html There was a renaissance in the refinement of men�s fashion during the early 1960s as it was influenced by Italian designers. In the late 60's men's dress became more fancy and feminine. http://www.badfads.com/pages/fashion/nehru.html Bad fads of the 1960s. Everything from the arfo haircut to soot suits. These are the most popular fashion styles of the decade. http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/elmer/infoCentral/frameset/decade/1960.htm This website is a timeline of the "Groovy 1960s" Not just including fashion, and hair styles, but main events including Kennedy's assassination and the Vietnam War. http://www.wtv-zone.com/dpjohnson/beautyandthebouffant/ The movement away from the conservative fifties continued and eventually resulted in revolutionary ways of thinking and real change in the cultural fabric of American life. No longer content to be images of the generation ahead of them, young people wanted change. http://www.fashion-era.com/the_1960s_mini.htm For the first time ever in any fashion era the young became the leaders of fashion. They led with new and radically innovative fashion styles, with little girl woman androgynous looks for women that swept away the sophisticated sweater girls of the early sixties. http://www.bookrags.com/history/popculture/1960s-fashion-bbbb-04/ The fashion icon of the first years of the decade was first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of the popular young president John F. Kennedy. Men, too, were affected by the new freedom in fashion. http://www.crazyfads.com/60s.htm This website sums up the most popular trends, fads, styles, games, pretty much everything that appealed to young people in the 1960s. MUSIC http://www.britannica.com/psychedelic/home.html This website shows the culture of the music scene and the drug scene that was very popular during the 1960s. http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html#music This page names the most popular musicians of the time period as well as the most popular types of music. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1960s_music_groups This encyclopedia website has almost all of the 1960s artists that you can think of and a link to a site that has info on the artist. http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Styles/By_Decade/1960s/Rock_and_Pop/Bands_and_Artists/ This google website is just like the encyclopedia above. It has a list of artists from the 1960s and a link taking you to the artists page. http://www.bookrags.com/history/popculture/1960s-music-bbbb-04/ The 1960s saw a real flowering of popular music styles. Unlike the 1950s, in which the birth of rock and roll dominated the decade, jazz, pop, and folk music all gathered devoted listeners in the 1960s. http://www.answers.com/topic/1960s-music-groups Music during the 1960s was affected by the multiple changes going world wide, and 1960s music groups were generally asked to bring a more upbeat, socially oriented message than the 1950s music bands. http://www.woodstock69.com/ Woodstock was a concert in 1969 that housed the most popular musicians of the time period. There was also another woodstock in a later year. http://www.geocities.com/~music-festival/woodstock.htm The 1960's were a time of revolution. Young people were breaking out of the molds that were cast by their parent's era. This revolution of the Baby Boomer generation found that one effective outlet for their ideas was music. http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3615&IssueNum=150 This is just one man's opinion of the music during the 1960s and a criticism of the artists. http://www.raycharles.com/the_music.html In a recording career spanning more than half a century, Ray Charles did nothing less than transform the face of popular music. From his early soul music-defining singles, through his groundbreaking soul-jazz recordings, to his bold forays into country and pop music, the musical legacy of The Genius is as deep as it is rich |