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BELL QUIZ: USE PAGES 781-785. 1) What was the slogan of the hippies? 2) Describe hippie fashion. 3) What California city became the hippie capital of the world? 4) What British rock band came to America in 1964 influencing fashion and rock ‘n’ roll?
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BELL QUIZ: USE PAGES 781-785 1) What was the slogan of the hippies? 2) Describe hippie fashion. 3) What California city became the hippie capital of the world? 4) What British rock band came to America in 1964 influencing fashion and rock ‘n’ roll? 5) Name 3 musicians who performed at Woodstock in August 1969.
BELL QUIZ ANSWERS • Tune in, Turn on, Drop out. • Ragged and torn jeans, tie-dyed T-shirts, military garments, love beads, Indian jewelry and attire, long hair, flowers in the hair. • San Francisco • The Beatles • Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Joan Baez, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane.
COUNTERCULTURE • The counterculture movement was the nickname given to youth in the 1960’s who rejected mainstream American society and values. • Goal was to create an alternative society based on peace, love, and individual freedom.
HIPPIE SLOGAN • “Tune in, Turn on, Drop out.” • Created by Harvard psychology professor Timothy Leary to get Americans to embrace psychedelic drug use, especially the use of LSD. • 'Turn on' meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. • 'Tune in' meant interact harmoniously with the world around you - externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. • 'Drop Out' meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. • Drop out of high school, drop out of college, drop out of graduate school.
HIPPIE CULTURE • The hippie culture was marked by rock ‘n’ roll music, outrageous clothing, sexual freedom (free love), and drug use (marijuana and LSD). • Wore torn jeans, loose clothes, tie-dyed t-shirts, military garments, love beads, and Indian jewelry. • Long hair was “in” to show rebellion.
COMMUNES • The hippie capital of the world was located in San Francisco at the corners of Haight and Ashbury streets because California didn’t outlaw hallucinogenic drugs until 1966. • Hippies lived together in communes and shared EVERYTHING.
MUSIC • Hippies embraced rock ‘n’ roll music and protest songs. • Musicians like the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and the Doors became very popular.
WOODSTOCK AUGUST 1969 IN NEW YORK MUSIC FESTIVAL
SEXUAL REVOLUTION • Sexual revolution=American attitudes toward sexual behavior became more casual, permissive, and open. • TV, books, magazines, music, and music began addressing subjects that had once been only discussed in private. • Result=more liberal and immodest clothing (mini skirt and string bikini), tolerance for people who are “different”, lack of respect for the social norms, open topics of conversation. • Moral decay?