Our “New Keywords” text book talks about a lot of specializations of histories towards the end. Feminist history, cultural history, and television history.

As I mentioned in class, my mom and I love the Beatles. As in you know when you’re on a vacation or passing a park with your family in the summer and there’s that Beatles cover band dressed up and playing Beatles tunes? You know how there’s usually two weirdos dancing and singing either in front of the stage… I’ll stop right there, that’s been us.

This brought me to think about how we affect history or how history affects us. Was the music of the Beatles a product of the time: the hippie era, peace and love. Or was the culture of the time shaped partly by the Beatles?

Not to say maybe kids wouldn’t be doing LSD if it weren’t for “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” but did were they a spoke in the wheel of cultural revolution? If the late ‘50s and early ‘60s began to give a voice and identity to teenagers that may have been the beginning, and it didn’t take too long after Elvis shaking his hips to get The Beatles and other bands singing about love, drugs, and sex and making it acceptable for this new subculture or awareness to become so mainstream.

Maybe when we look at history and ourselves they go hand in hand. We all affect history and our surroundings, and our surrounding shape the statements we choose to make.