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Title: Counter-culture vs. mainstream


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Counter-culture vs. mainstream
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1960s Counterculture?
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The Hippy Movement
  • The term hippy comes from being hip. You were
    either hip or you were a square or a pig.
  • Hippies were looking for an alternative way to
    live life.
  • Most hippies valued freedom, nature, intimacy,
    peace, sharing, and spirituality.

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Mainstream Culture
  • The postwar era of 1945-1960 was a time of
    amazing econ growth prosperity for millions of
    Americans
  • 4 concepts typified Mainstream America
  • They were very patriotic (America Love it or
    leave it.)
  • They believed in the institution of marriage (You
    fall in love, you get married.)
  • They believed in the American Dream (Work hard
    and you can have a good life)
  • They believed conformity kept society ordered
    (fashion, jobs, behavior, etc)

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The Counterculture
  • 6 ideas typified this movement
  • Communal living
  • Experimental Drug Use
  • Scandalous Fashions
  • Political Activism
  • New Music Styles
  • Sexual liberation/revolution

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Way of Life
  • Hippies wanted to distance themselves from
    mainstream ways of life.
  • They discarded possessions and often lived in
    parks or campsites in the woods.
  • Living like this made them feel free
  • Nudity was another form of freedom

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San Francisco and Haight Ashbury
  • San Francisco was the birthplace of the
    counterculture/hippy movement.
  • By 1965 hippies had taken over the Haight
    Ashbury district.
  • Haight Ashbury district contains Golden Gate
    Park home of the Trips Festival and be-ins.

This is a 20,000-strong be-in at Golden gate park
in 1967
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Experimental Drug Use
  • For many youth, drug use was an important part of
    rebellion personal freedom
  • While marijuana was most popular, the
    mind-altering LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) or
    acid was increasing in use.
  • As drugs grew in popularity, newspapers schools
    pointed out the increasing numbers of youth dying
    from drug overdoses

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Counterculture Fashion
  • Hippies distanced themselves from mainstream
    culture by their dress.
  • Colorful, flowing clothing, beads, headbands
    bellbottoms, and tie-dye were popular.
  • Men their hair and beards long or in afros.
  • Hippies were often called longhairs

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Political Activism
  • By late 60s, the TV was showing images of
    long-haired protestors marching against the
    Vietnam War
  • Some were confrontational- burning the flag,
    cursing goading police or Nat Guard troops
  • Others were interested in making a peace
    statement- marching in silence, carrying peace
    signs, placing flowers in the barrels of govt
    troops to prove their pacifism

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New Music Styles
  • The folk, pop, rock music of the 1960s also
    challenged mainstream values.
  • In 69, these elements all came together at a
    farm in NY at the Woodstock festival. More than
    500K people came together to camp out, take
    drugs, engage in free love, listen to rock

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Woodstock
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Sexual revolution
  • The 60s saw a revolution in the realm of human
    sexuality.
  • The Counter Culture called for free love or
    casual sex.
  • Medical advances, like the birth control pill,
    made sexual activity without fear of pregnancy
    easier.
  • Soon the country was seeing the effects of this
    new freedom- women went braless, movies showed
    sex b/t men and women, songs made explicit
    references to sex
  • It should also be noted that the gay rights
    movement began as a result of this new freedom
  • There was also an incredible rise in STDs ,
    despite improved birth control, illegitimate
    children born

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References
  • Wikipedia.com
  • The Hippy Generation by Adam Huber
    http//users.rowan.edu/lindman/hippieintro.html
  • What did the hippies Want? By Alicia Bay
    Laurel
  • Interview with Terry Brown (my mom)
  • Pictures from Google images Search Hippies
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