In the late 1960’s a new genre (which is just a fancy word for "type" or "style") of music appeared on the American cultural scene. It was called "protest music," because that’s exactly what it was about. The songwriters and performing artists wanted to express their displeasure or discontent with a variety of social or political issues of the day: the war in Viet Nam; the rules and regulations parents place upon children; the style of clothing or length of hair you had to have in order to be considered "respectable."

Most of the songs had to do with changes. Phil Ochs, one of my personal favorite writers of that era, talked about change as something to be anticipated and dreamed about, but also as something that was inevitable. Listen to these words from one of his songs, appropriately t…