Claim: Bob Dylan appealed to the burgeoning counterculture of the 1960's.
Evidence: They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture.
The counterculture of the 1960s refers to an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed first in the United Kingdom -LRB- UK -RRB- and the United States -LRB- US -RRB- and then spread throughout much of the Western world between the early 1960s and the mid-1970s , with London , New York City , and San Francisco being hotbeds of early countercultural activity.