I think that when talking about musical revolution, you have to think about the actual cultural impact of the music you're talking about. What you do musically doesn't really matter if noone's affected by it. In the 50s and particularly the 60s, you had emergence of youth cultures that had a lot to do with music. Music collectively became part of the identity of generations of young people with different thoughts and ideals than their parents and I'm not sure that had ever happened before on such a scale.
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