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C u l t u r e & C o u n t e r c u l t u r e

C u l t u r e & C o u n t e r c u l t u r e. 1 9 5 0 s C u l t u r e. B a b y B o o m. S u b u r b s : L i t t l e B o x e s. T h e A f f l u e n t S o c i e t y. Post-WWII economic boom Private sector wealth Public sector poverty.

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C u l t u r e & C o u n t e r c u l t u r e

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  1. Culture& Counterculture

  2. 1950s Culture

  3. Baby Boom

  4. Suburbs:LittleBoxes

  5. The AffluentSociety • Post-WWII economic boom • Private sector wealth • Public sector poverty

  6. The Man intheGray Flannel Suit • Search for purpose in a world dominated by business • Materialism vs. meaning

  7. Deathof aSalesman • Play by Arthur Miller • Lack of fulfillment from materialistic life • “You can’t eat the orange and throw away the peel. A man is not a piece of fruit!”

  8. Catcher in the Rye • Adolescent angst, alienation, sexuality

  9. Allen Ginsberg TheBeats

  10. Howl I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flatsfloating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz…

  11. James Dean “Rebel Without a Cause”

  12. Berry & Presley “Johnny B. Goode” “Jailhouse Rock”

  13. BritishInvasion • The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, 1964 • Other bands • Rolling Stones • The Who • The Yardbirds

  14. Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

  15. Jimi Hendrix • Revolutionized American rock music • Woodstock, 1969 • “Star Spangled Banner/Purple Haze”

  16. Visual Arts

  17. Pop Art Andy Warhol & Roy Lichtenstein

  18. Andy Warhol

  19. Andy Warhol

  20. Roy Lichtenstein

  21. Roy Lichtenstein

  22. Op Art

  23. Op Art

  24. Psychedelic Art

  25. Hippie Culture

  26. “NeverTrust Anyone OverThirty”

  27. Haight-Ashbury • Center of San Francisco’s hippie/drug/art culture (hippie = counterculture) • Summer of Love, 1967 • “If you're going to San Francisco,be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...If you're going to San Francisco,Summertime will be a love-in there.”

  28. Haight-Ashbury

  29. LSD &Marijuana

  30. Woodstock, 1969

  31. Swami Satchidananda Richie Havens Joan Baez Ravi Shankar Santana Grateful Dead Janis Joplin The Who Creedence Clearwater Revival Jimi Hendrix Crosby, Stills & Nash Jefferson Airplane

  32. Woodstock, 1969

  33. AbbieHoffman

  34. AltamontConcert • “Woodstock of the West Coast,” 1969 • Murder by Hell’s Angels while Rolling Stones performed

  35. Charles Manson • “Manson Family” cult • Serial murders by “flower children”

  36. Nixon Presidency • “Law and Order” • “Silent Majority”

  37. New Left

  38. New Left

  39. Vietnam War

  40. Anti-War Protests

  41. Studentsfora Democratic Society

  42. WeatherUnderground

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