1 / 12

1960’s

1960’s. Counterculture. Counterculture. Mostly white, middle-class, college youths Lacked organization Severe drug use Eventually collapsed. Hippies. Began with the New Left movement Vietnam War protests Goal: Peace, love, and harmony. Hippie Culture. Rock ‘ n’Roll Outrageous clothing

hue
Download Presentation

1960’s

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. 1960’s Counterculture

  2. Counterculture • Mostly white, middle-class, college youths • Lacked organization • Severe drug use • Eventually collapsed

  3. Hippies • Began with the New Left movement • Vietnam War protests • Goal: Peace, love, and harmony

  4. Hippie Culture • Rock ‘n’Roll • Outrageous clothing • Liberal use of Drugs • Marijuana • LSD (Acid)

  5. Hippie Culture • Many chose to live in Communes • Group living arrangements • Urban “crash pads”

  6. Hippie Capital • Haight-Ashbury district • San Francisco, CA • Why? • Availability of hallucinogenic drugs • Not outlawed until 1966

  7. Decline • Danger in communes • Crazy people like Charles Manson • Drug overdoses • Janis Joplin • Jimi Hendrix

  8. Jefferson Airplane • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jj3wZVc7nw

  9. Jimi Hendrix • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyGGG1I-rf8

  10. Woodstock • August 1969 • Upstate New York • 120,000 expected • 400,000 showed • Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Joan Baez, The Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane

  11. Impact • Divorce rates doubles in the 1970’s • Homosexual organizations • Moral decay? • Permanent change of dress in society

More Related