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What effect did hippies, music, and college students have on state and federal government?. Clarifying question [All notes you take need to help you answer the following question]. What was the impact of the counterculture on American society?. The Emergence of a Counterculture.
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What effect did hippies, music, and college students have on state and federal government? Clarifying question[All notes you take need to help you answer the following question]
What was the impact of the counterculture on American society? The Emergence of a Counterculture
Youth of the 1960s • Youth in the 1960s formed the Largest generation in American History. • Many became disillusioned with the bland conformity of the 1950s . • Rejected money status and power. All things their parents had embraced • Vietnam war angered many.
Counterculture • The rebellion against their parents’ values was called the counterculture.
Characteristics of the New Left • The movement rejected old left’s emphasis on communities. • Committed to American Ideals • Dedicated to creating a just society. • Free Speech Movement
Characteristics of Counterculture • Hippies rebelled against social expectation by dropping out of the school. • Grew hair long wore colorful clothes and shunned conventions of shaving body hair. • Love was more important than money. • Yippies tried to combine their hippie lifestyle with politics.
Love is but a song to singFear's the way we dieYou can make the mountains ringOr make the angels cryThough the bird is on the wingAnd you may not know whyCome on people nowSmile on your brotherEverybody get togetherTry to love one anotherRight nowSome may come and some may goWe shall surely passWhen the one that left us hereReturns for us at lastWe are but a moment's sunlightFading in the grassCome on people nowSmile on your brotherEverybody get togetherTry to love one anotherRight nowCome on people nowSmile on your brotherEverybody get togetherTry to love one anotherRight now Come on people nowSmile on your brotherEverybody get togetherTry to love one anotherRight nowIf you hear the song I singYou will understand (listen!)You hold the key to love and fearAll in your trembling handJust one key unlocks them bothIt's there at you commandCome on people nowSmile on your brotherEverybody get togetherTry to love one anotherRight nowCome on people nowSmile on your brotherEverybody get togetherTry to love one anotherRight nowCome on people nowSmile on your brotherEverybody get togetherTry to love one anotherRight now Get Together [lyrics to a classic 1960s song]
Characteristics of Mainstream Americans • Saw hippies as spoiled rich kids. • They valued family hard work and respect for the country.
The Summer of Love 1967 • The 1960s and early 1970s stressed love and individual freedom. • This was expressed in both fashion and in the arts. • 1967 was declared the Summer of Love and thousands of youth went to San Francisco • “Human Be-In”
San Francisco • If you're going to San Francisco Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair If you're going to San Francisco You're gonna meet some gentle people there • For those who come to San Francisco Summertime will be a love-in there In the streets of San Francisco Gentle people with flowers in their hair • All across the nation such a strange vibration People in motion There's a whole generation with a new explanation People in motion people in motion • For those who come to San Francisco Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair If you come to San Francisco Summertime will be a love-in there • If you come to San Francisco Summertime will be a love-in there
Counterculture Youth: Views on Sexual Attitudes They had more open views on sexual behavior. They challenged conventional ideas about marriage. Many young couples lived “in sin” [without being married or engaged].
Mainstream Views on Sex • Believed that sex would lead to divorce • Worried people were pressed into sex too early. • Alarmed by the number of children born outside of marriage.
Counterculture Youth Views on Drugs • Permissive views on the recreational use of drugs. • Timothy Leary urged Americans to “turn on turn in and drop out.”
Mainstream America: Views on Drugs • Many alarmed by the casual attitude of young people toward drug use. • Feared bad “trips” would lead to problems.
Many people listened to psychedelic rock. • Many people attended large rock festivals like Woodstock. Counterculture Youth: Views on Music
Woodstock • August 1969 on a farm in upstate New York • Very peaceful • Great Music
Mainstream Culture • Worried that rock music was promoting drug use.
Counterculture: Views on ways of living • Many created their own mini societies • Others lived in communes where members shared responsibilities and decision making
The Impact of the Counterculture on Mainstream Media • Experimentation with new forms of expression spread to the visual arts where abstract expressionism of the 1950s gave way to pop art. • Pop art focused on everyday life. Well known Painting of Marilyn Monroe by famous American artist Andy Warhol.
The media introduced countercultural values to mainstream America through TV and radio as well as art music and theater. Impact of the Counterculture
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