... influences. In his second album, (The Freewheelin' released in 1963) Dylan began to write songs that would be considered "protest songs", and these shot Dylan to global fame and recognition, particularly among the newly rising "hippie" movement. In order to look at why Dylan's work captured the voice of this subculture, one must look at the social and political conditions of the time and how his music commented on these conditions. The sixties was a time of great political commotion in America, from tensions in the Cold War, to the cries for civil rights by Americas black community. By the time of Dylan's second album, the cold war tensions and the civil rights movements were at their peak. Dylan's first protest song, and perhaps his most famous, was called "Blowin' in the Wind" (1) and became adopted by the civil rights movement at the time. Through its rhetoric, the song ...

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