During the Beatles Era love, peace and war were going on and that's what they wrote about, things they saw , things that disturbed them, or things that they could bring positivity about out of a negative situation. But, anyway i didn' t mean to go on this long music thing. Definitely during the Industiral Revolution men were considered a single part of a big machine. Men were to work and women for the most part were to stay at home and tend to the housekeeping and child rearing. The craftmanship that was learned as a skill for most men was taken away for a monotonous non-skilled task.
People are happy when they create, or when they feel their job is fulfilling.
Machines take these joys away. Of course Stan what else could it be. How simple lyrics of a song can change society. Well, let's see if I can take Morris's argument a little further. I think that some of our modern music and fashion have most definitely had a negative affect on society.