Darin music style in 1960s was folk rock when he wrote a song for Hardin – “A Simple Song of Freedom” which definitely became a hit song for him. The social consciousness brought by this song is freedom and liberation (Richie 78). It was a song that was sung to resist wars at that time. Darin calls even the blacks to come and converge to avert wars and pave ways for peaceful coexistence (Rosenthal, and Flacks 89). “Hey there, mister black man can you hear me?” he sang.
It is a song intended to every citizen in America who needed a peaceful environment without wars. He said that he did not want diamonds or games from the enemies and hoped that the enemies would like to live the same life without war turmoil. The song was advocating for the freedom of the natives who had been displaced and their land grabbed and cultivated by foreigners.
It encouraged the citizens of US to unite and chant songs of liberty. The only people who liked and enjoyed fighting are the presidents and the ministers as well as the kings. Darin discouraged the normal citizens from emulating the same culture of fighting and urged the audience to leave that for the seniors in the government. “We, the people here, don’t want a war..”
During that era, the Cold War and the hard reality of death was at its helm for US and Vietnam and this escalated anti-war songs that kept the pulse of everyone in the country (Isserman and Kazin 192). The outside population supported US in ending the war when they listened to the lyrics of the freedom song. Vietnam also succumbed when they learnt that US was then united to beat them.
These songs at this time provisioned a linear path down which the songs against the wars moved, safely generalized to castigate the carnage brought by the Vietnam War. Later, the war between US and Vietnam came to a halt and hence the mobilization brought by the song lyrical had a positive impact (Todd 187).
Works Cited
Rosenthal, Rob, and Richard Flacks. Playing For Change. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers, 2011. Print.
Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1987. Print.
Isserman, Maurice, and Michael Kazin. America Divided. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Print.
Unterberger, Richie. "Simple Songs of Freedom: The Tim Hardin Collection.2011. web. > Review" Retrieved June 22, 2011.
