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Counterculture of the 1960s

Counterculture of the 1960s. 30.3. Hippies. Influenced by Beat movement of 1950s and New Left anti-war groups Many youth left school, work, home Peace, love and harmony. Hippie Culture. Rock n roll Outrageous clothing Illegal drugs: marijuana, LSD Embraced Buddhism Long hair

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Counterculture of the 1960s

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  1. Counterculture of the 1960s 30.3

  2. Hippies • Influenced by Beat movement of 1950s and New Left anti-war groups • Many youth left school, work, home • Peace, love and harmony

  3. Hippie Culture • Rock n roll • Outrageous clothing • Illegal drugs: marijuana, LSD • Embraced Buddhism • Long hair • Lived in communes

  4. Hippies

  5. Hippies

  6. VW Van

  7. Downside to Counterculture • Commune life led to corruption • Drug addiction • Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix OD in 1970 • Most hippies returned to the society that they had once rejected

  8. Jimi Hendrix

  9. Culture or Counterculture? • Pop art: Andy Warhol • Symbolized the commercialism of the times

  10. More Warhol Inspired Art

  11. The Beatles • First played in US in 1964 • Took US by storm, hugely popular • Inspired millions • “British Invasion”

  12. Woodstock • 1969, farm in New York • 400,000 arrived for this free music festival • Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joe cocker, Joan Baez, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane • Heavy rains turned the festival into one huge mud pit

  13. Woodstock

  14. Woodstock

  15. Sexual Revolution • TV, books, music and movies began addressing subjects that had been taboo • Some saw this as liberating, others as moral decay • The long term effects of counterculture are clear to see today, but they had a reverse affect at the time

  16. Conservative Response • Richard Nixon wins 68 election • Traditionalists saw hippies and New Left as a threat, categorized them as dangerous rebels • Mainstream US scared by counterculture, set off a wave of conservativism that is still present today

  17. Result of counterculture

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