The 1960s was a period of social change in countries around the world and in
hundreds of cities in the United States. We argue that music played a rhetorical
role in bringing a vast array of people together behind a wide range of issues. The
music of Bob Dylan unified people together, making Dylan a kind of prophet that
put into music the voice of the people involved in the social movements of the
1960s. By considering his music rhetorically, we provide insight into how music
played a key role in the social movements of the 1960s.