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Word Association – what comes to your mind?

Word Association – what comes to your mind?. A SHIFT IN AMERICA 1950’s- 1960’s. 1950’s America. Typical suburban housewife image. Margarine Advertisement. Societies’ Corruption by Capitalism and Materialism - Rejection. THE 1960’s. THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’. The new counterculture.

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Word Association – what comes to your mind?

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  1. Word Association – what comes to your mind?

  2. A SHIFT IN AMERICA 1950’s- 1960’s

  3. 1950’s America Typical suburban housewife image

  4. Margarine Advertisement

  5. Societies’ Corruption by Capitalism and Materialism - Rejection

  6. THE 1960’s THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’

  7. The new counterculture

  8. America’s Institutions Targets of Social Critique – Morally Bankrupt Society

  9. Individual Had No Chance – Had to Escape

  10. Political Protest

  11. Political Protest - Free Speech

  12. Free Love

  13. Counterculture Slogan “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measure or far away” Henry David Thoreau

  14. Start of the Movement Beat Poets On the Road America - Alan Ginsberg America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956. I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? … When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks? America after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world. Your machinery is too much for me. You made me want to be a saint. … I'm addressing you. Are you going to let our emotional life be run by Time Magazine? I'm obsessed by Time Magazine. I read it every week. Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore. I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library. It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me. It occurs to me that I am America. I am talking to myself again. …

  15. Folk to Revolution Bob Dylan How many roads must a man walk downBefore you call him a man? Yes, n how many seas must a white dove sailBefore she sleeps in the sand? Yes, n how many times must the cannon balls flyBefore theyre forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,The answer is blowin in the wind.How many times must a man look upBefore he can see the sky? Yes, n how many ears must one man haveBefore he can hear people cry? Yes, n how many deaths will it take till he knowsThat too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,The answer is blowin in the wind.How many years can a mountain existBefore its washed to the sea? Yes, n how many years can some people existBefore theyre allowed to be free? Yes, n how many times can a man turn his head,Pretending he just doesnt see? The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,The answer is blowin in the wind.

  16. The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls - Sound of Silence Simon and Garfunkel The Doors …The old get oldAnd the young get strongerMay take a weekAnd it may take longerThey got the gunsBut we got the numbersGonna win, yeahWere takin overCome on! … Five to One

  17. It just got suffocated. Like Woodstock – that wasn’t anything. It was just a whole new market for t-dyed t-shirts. Bob Dylan 1984

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