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A 9 page paper which examines how the legendary rock band represented a reaction to the turbulent 1960s as a ‘dazed and confused’ generation alternated between apathy and excess. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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File: TG15_TGledzep.rtf
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the Cold War heating up during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War and the numerous assassinations of American leaders), ethnicities (blacks and whites in America, East and West),
and gender (increasing demands for female equality in society and in the workplace). By the time the 1970s rolled around, people were numb to the seemingly continuous roller coaster
of violence and discord. There was a collective sense of social apathy as the young Western generation pondered, Where do we go from here? A group of four
English musicians, Led Zeppelin, rose to icon status during this decade because their compositions captured this period of dazed confusion. They became the poets of uncertainty, delivering epic songs
of converging musical styles that were subject to constantly changing and varying interpretations, much like the world itself at that time. Had it not been the 1970s, Led Zeppelin
might have never got off the ground. As this investigation into the legendary band argues - through the citation of primary song lyrics and analytical secondary sources - Led
Zeppelin reflects the extremes of ambivalence and excess that characterized this time period as the world moved toward an ambiguous future.
In his insightful text, Rock and Roll: A Social History, Paul Friedlander observed, the 1970s were "a time of contradiction" (234). Conventional values had taken a beating during the
Sixties and increased government corruption and citizen mistrust was leading to what Led Zeppelin song analyst Professor Susan Fast referred to as a "rejection of the dominant cultures values" (18).
Rebellious youth was turning on to sex and drugs while rock music became a spiritual alternative in which they could take solace (Friedlander 234). Ironically, the band that
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