Bob Dylan These Times Are A-Changing

Bob Dylan's song '' These Times are A-changing'' fully reflected the golden age of United States in the1950s to 60s. Everything had a radical change. Lots of innovations became widespread used, which transformed American's lives everyday. Such as, television, automatic dishwasher and home air-conditioning. Most of people lived better than their parents and grandparents did. In this song, Bob Dylan hoped that people should accept the new things and change their mind. There are two examples in the 1950s and 60s.
Teenagers always be expected to be polite, be well behaved and be obedient to their parents. In the 1950s, teens created a new youth culture. They wore leather jackets, watched different kinds of movies and danced to rock-and-roll

music, which rebelled against the world of their parents. The song showed that ''Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command''. Prior to the 1950s, parents listened to '' white music and genres of music such as Tin Pan Alley and polka. However, teens preferred to listen to rock-and-roll music, which was full of sexual provocativeness. For example, the famous singer Elvis Presley had an openly sexual performance. At that time, Parents wanted to stop their kids to listen to these songs from the family radio and record collection, because they were worried about their kids acting and dressing as those musicians. It was impossible to do it. Radios and record players became so inexpensive that teenagers could buy them on their own.
Another example is that the ghetto uprising. In the 1950s, the United States was a segregated and unequal society, Most of the black families lived in poverty. Racial segregation happened everywhere in the United States. The public places provided for African Americans were underground, but the inferior for whites. The song reflected that '' There's a battle outside and it's ragin. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls''. The first battles happened in Harlem in 1964. About 50.000 people joined in this uprising, who attacked police and firemen. At the same time, they destroyed building. Violence became so widespread in the United States. During that time, lots of people were dead and injured.
In short, the song '' These Times are A-changing'' revealed the situation of United States in the 1950s to 60s. Youth culture and ghetto uprising greatly influenced change in American society.