1960s there were huge changes when it came to music culture in the USA. The 1960s was a turbulent decade for the USA, with the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and Civil Rights. Music got tied up to ideas and thoughts regarding sexual revolution, equal rights, the Black Power movement, feminism, and environmentalism.
Blues music traces its roots to the spirituals, work songs, and chants of African-American culture, many of its best-known and earliest artists were African-American. As such, both Blues and Jazz music played an important role in the Civil Rights movement, which hit its peak in the 1960s. The movement, a turbulent time in United States history, in the south was marked with nonviolent protests and campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change through nonviolent forms of resistance.
Martin Luther King Jr., said that “jazz speaks for life. The blues tell the story of life’s difficulties — and, if you think for a moment, you realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph. This is triumphant music.”
The blues music and the Civil Rights movement is that it was not only an inspiration during those difficult times, but also helped to heal the hostility in the years that followed. People who couldn’t find anything in common were finally able to come together in the music of the times.
It is clear that music had positive effects on morale in Vietnam. While it served to bring many people together, however, it also seems to have played a role in separating people as well. For example, Eugene Lenyk repented that, in addition to music bringing him closer to the African-American members of his unit, music being was a divisive force as well. Paved a path towards greater musical expression in times of conflict. 
Vietnam-era musicians seemed to be the only people talking about America’s failure to live up to its democratic principles, many young people viewed them as “their own.” Much of the power of Vietnam War-era music came from its connection to the civil rights movement.
The Cold War shaped most aspects of popular culture, including music. Cold War values, issues, and ideas can be found in hundreds of songs between the late 1940s and early 1990s. Cold War music spans a number of styles and genres: from the whimsical country and western songs in the 1950s to the folk-protest music of the Woodstock era, to songs about the revived nuclear paranoia of the 1980s.
The hippie movement coincided with the escalation of the Cold War. 
The Hippie Counterculture challenged the existing system, society, and values by expressing their ideals in a simple message “Turn on, tune in, drop out”. The Hippie Counterculture represented a movement, that was ‘counter to’, or opposite to, the accepted beliefs and conventions of American middle-class society, by creating a completely new lifestyle.