World Music

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A year before the end of the Vietnam War, much which had been built in the late 1960s and early 70s was gone. Haight-Ashbury, now a shell of itself due to overcrowding and lawlessness, was a derelict quarter of San Francisco. The college campus was no longer a monolithic stage of leftists politics, as conservatism had found its voice in the young who were more than willing to stand against their peers in the classroom. Yet not all had been lost.  Even with the “death of the hippie” and the diminishment of the counter-culture, elements of music, art, philosophy and politics found vibrant life in other places within American society. As this advertisement from the February issue of 1974 shows, World Music, a staple of the counter-culture revolution, had found a place within commercialism.

Afterward
World Music