How the Cold War impacted music!

By:Hannah Seck Cheyenne Alonzo Alison Onesti

Cold War..Through Music!
Before the Cold War and during the Cold War it was a hard time for Americans to live.
The way they felt during the 70s is kinda the way we feel right now. Not so proud of our country and
not so proud living here in The United States Of America.We were always at war here in the U.S.A the
government was killing its own people. After the Cold War had happened and we won people had
started to become happy again and started feeling good or better about the US.
People started expressing themselves through clothing and music. The Music being made started to
become more happier and people were getting along again and a bunch of the wars/ fights had
stopped for a little while at least(the big major ones that they were dealing with anyway..
Music Cold War...What do they have
to do with each other???
Cold war and music relate in many ways people always express themselves through music but theres
also other ways but music is a good way of expressing feelings i think that it will be that way forever
because what's better than putting your feelings down on paper and then singing it and getting
frustrations out? Well the cold war and music relate a lot because people were going through a rough
hard time kinda like the way we are right now so people made anti-war songs..
protests..poems..pictures.and much more but I think music was the most useful way of them getting
their feelings across through music and people can listen to the lyrics read the lyrics and can get your
feelings without having to go through explaining oh this song I Wrote because the war and I don't like
war and I want it to stop they can just tell by how you sing the song and the words and phrases you
use when writing the song or singing.


How did the Cold War impact music?
Musicians of the time period 1950-1960 were mainly Jazz and Folk music were
influenced by the shadow of nuclear war.

Some of the musicians of this time period is Bob Dylan he wrote the songs
-Masters of War
-Rains a-gonna fall
(These songs were written right before the Cuban Missile Crisis.)
Timeline:
1940s
1945-Gene Autry--At mail call Today

1950s
1950-Ed McCurdy--Last Night I had the
strangest dream
1952-Ernest Tubb--Missing In Action
1958-Perry Como--Prayer For Peace
1959-Pete-Seger--Turn,Turn,Turn
Timeline:
1960s
1960-Johnny Horton--Comanche(The Brave Horse)
1961-Pete seeger--Where Have All the Flowers Gone
1962-Bob Dylan--A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
1963-Bob Dylan---Masters of War
1964-Universal Soldier--Buffy Sainte-Marie
1965- Sam Cooke-- A Change is Gonna Come
1966-Troopers Lament
1967-Country Joe McDonald--Fixen to Die Rag
1968-Bob Seger--2+2=?
1969- Fortunate-- Creedence Clearwater Revival

1970s
1970-Black Sabbath--Electric Funeral
1971-Marvin Gaye-- What's going on
1972-john Lennon-- The Luck of The Irish
1973-Funkadelic--March To the White Castle
1974-Paper Lace-- The Night Chicago Died
1975-Lynyrd Skynyrd--Saturday Night Special
1976-Jack warshaw--If They come in the Morning
1977-Sham 69--Ulster
1978-The Stranglers--Curfew
1979-The Clash--London Calling
TimeLine:
1980s
1980-The Clash--Washingtons bullets
1981-The Stranglers--It only Takes Two to Tango
1982-Prince--1999
1983-Nena--99 Red Balloons
1984-Iron Maiden--2 Minutes to Midnight
1985-The sisters of Mercy--Black Planet
1986-Ozzy Osbourne--Killerof Giants
1987-Bullet the Blue Sky--U2
1988-Blind Guardian--Battalions of Fear
1989-Billy Joel--Leningrad
1990s
1990-Guns and Roses--Civil War
1991-Michael JAckson--Heal the World