In the 1960s, Bob Dylan composed influential counterculture music.
Bob Dylan was recognized by many as the spokesperson for the counter-culture movement of the 1960s. Since the beginning of the decade, Dylan used his music as a form of protest toward the injustices that occurred in the United States. Some of his most emblematic songs are "The Death of Emmet Till", in which he refers to the assassination of a young black man in 1955 by the Ku Klux Klan and how justice did nothing about it, and “Masters of War,” a song of protest against the War in Vietnam.