Blog post #7
For what its worth by Buffalo Springfield is a song about what is going on socially and politically in America. This fits right in with the Marxist theme which we have been talking about. Marxist criticisms look at the social and political themes in a piece of writing.
This song was written by Stephen Stills in 1966 and released in 97. The origin of this song is based in curfew in LA. When Buffalo Springfield were preforming on the Sunset Strip at a club named Whisky a Go Go, annoyed residents encouraged the passage of a strict 10:00 pm curfew. This was directed at the club going youth. The youth were than angry at a perceived breach of their civil rights. The local radio station announced a rally at a local club in LA and fliers were sent everywhere. The Times reported that there were as many as 1,000 demonstrators. Stills wrote the song three weeks after the riot.
The song starts off with "There's something happening here, but what it is ain't exactly clear, there's a man with a gun over there, telling me i got to beware." This paragraph talks about how, there is something happening, but people don't seem to understand what is happening. the man with a gun is symbolic of the entire government, he is telling the populus that they need to be scared. they then say "I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look - what's going down." The children that is talked about in the song is the youthes that were at the rally, angry about the curfew. they then tell the youths to stop and look around, to look at the injustice that is going on towards not only them but to everyone.
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