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I disagree. The creative explosion started with the advent of modern recording. Every decade since has had it's "creative" folks. The 60's is when everyone saw the beginning of "indie cred". Before that, however, Jazz was considered the music elitists genre of choice. Before that it was Blues.
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Hm, by modern recording do you mean the development of compact discs and MP3?
Also, I agree that every decade has it's creative types, but the 60s saw a greater audience for those creative types, that's what made the difference. The 60s saw a demand for innovation not only coming from the artistic community itself, but from a greater portion of the general public. After all, art and artists are intrinsically linked to their audiences. The root of that demand for innovation came from the unique time period. Feminism, anti-war protests, etc. all contributed to creating a population that wanted change, including musical innovation. The 60s was an outburst of creative freedom stemming from the restrictive post-war mentality of WW2, and more specifically the restrictive nature of the early 50s. Given the circumstances, it was going to naturally be a period of great change.
I also don't really understand the correlation between "indie cred" and the production of high quality music.
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Jazz was considered the devil's music. The older genreation felt nobody but booze hounds and black people listened to that stuff.
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This is getting kind of off topic buy I have to really disagree with this. Maybe in the early 50s jazz was seen this way, but definitely not by the early 60s, even late 50s. During that time jazz got a tremendous white following, especially with the introduction of Dave Brubeck. Whites were very active in jazz by that time.
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The reason those are remembered yet you can't think of a similar movement today is because those movements had a social stigma attached to them
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Well that's sort of jumping to a personal judgment. I can think of a number of movements that were significant in the post 60s/70s music scene. Trip-hop, 90s alternative rock, etc. This list goes on, just doing some quick wikipedia researching will get you hundreds. I agree that such movements existed. But nothing, in my opinion, compares to the 60s in terms of the breadth of musical advancement that happened in such a dense period of time. And I feel like I'm looking at this pretty objectively from any social stigmas that may have been associated with the time period.