Another episode of that Netflix series is about big music festivals. It’s almost funny that they call Jefferson Airplane and rock music as “counter-culture.” It always felt like the Boomer hegemon to me. Counter to what?
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Replying to @michaelbd
It was countercultural for a brief moment in the late 60s. Counter to, say, Lawrence Welk & the people who ran the Big 3 TV networks. But the counterculture had become the culture by the early 70s.
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They’re showing Jefferson Airplane on prime time network TV in 67.
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Yes, although well into the Sixties, bands like that were playing a cat-and-mouse game with the censors. They were outsiders being courted by the inside. Co-opting to become the mainstream happened later.
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