PETER YARROW TALKS ABOUT THE PURISTS LIKE LOMAX AND SEEGER AND THE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS AND THE DICHOTOMY THAT EXISTED AT NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL BATTLE OF ESTHETICS - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PURISTS WHO WANTED THE OLDER FOLK ARTISTS RATHER THAN THE 1960'S FOLK REVIVALISTS

PETER YARROW TALKS ABOUT FOLK MUSIC AS BEING POLITICALLY CHARGED WITH ISSUES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, SOCIAL AWARENESS - HOW THE 1960'S FOLK ARTISTS WERE ON THE FOREFRONT OF THAT - TALKS ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF 60'S FOLK MUSIC FROM WOODY GUTHRIE AND THE WEAVERS ON UP AND HOW ROCK N' ROLL WAS NOT SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS LIKE FOLK MUSIC WAS AT THE TIME - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE MESSAGE OF FOLK MUSIC AND ROCK MUSIC - HOW FOLK MUSIC WAS MORE SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS AND POLITICAL THAN ROCK MUSIC IN THE 1960S - UNTIL BOB DYLAN GOT TOGETHER WITH THE BEATLES

THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL HAS TO BE LOOKED UPON AS THE QUINTESSENTIAL REALITY OF THE MEETING OF MUSIC WITH SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE 1960S "AMERICANS WERE GOOD, BUT IF YOU ARE GOOD AND BLIND YOU WILL ALLOW BAD THINGS TO HAPPEN" - PETER YARROW DISCUSSES THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL AS A PLATFORM FOR 1960'S FOLK MUSIC - THE ULTIMATE STAGE FOR IT

PETER YARROW TALKS ABOUT MUSIC IN THE 1960'S - AM RADIO IF YOU HAD A HIT PLAYED THE RECORD CONSTANTLY - FOLK MUSIC IN THE EARLY 60'S WAS PLAYED CONSTANTLY - AND BECAME PART OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ERA -

YARROW TALKS ABOUT THE SONGS HE AND THE GROUP SANG THAT HAD THE BIGGEST REACTIONS - "WHEN PP&M SANG FOR SOMETHING WE BELIEVED IN IT EFFECTED US AND OFTEN BROUGHT US TO TEARS

YARROW TALKS ABOUT THE 60'S AS A TIME WHEN PEOPLE WERE WILLING TO GIVE THEIR LIVES TO FURTHER THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT - TALKS ABOUT MATHEW SHEPARD WHO WAS KILLED FOR BEING A HOMOSEXUAL

YARROW TALKS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL AND WHAT IT WAS

PETER YARROW TALKS ABOUT HUMAN SOCIAL TRADITIONS
ARE DIFFERENT FORM OTHER TRADITIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS IN THEIR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT - HUMAN TRADITIONS

PETER YARROW ON THE BOB DYLAN SONG " THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING"