Today’s Schedule – 05/19/10

Today’s Schedule – 05/19/10 • 30.3 Vocab and Timeline Check • 30.3 PPT: The Counterculture Movement • HW: • 30.4 Timeline – Due Friday • BRING HEADPHONES TOMORROW!!! • Warm-Up: Why do you think some young adults feel the need to reject traditional culture/societal norms?

The Square • A symbol of the 1950s • Embraces the traditional family values culture • Favored a typical nine to five corporate job

The Hippie • Often from the baby boom population post WWII • Symbol of the 1960s • Long hair • Brightly dressed • Wearing beads and flowers • Rejection of • Corporate life • Military power • Valued • Youth • Spontaneity • Individuality

Counterculture Movement • Young adults began adopting values that were “counter” to mainstream society • Against “the square” • Promoted • Peace, love and freedom • New styles of clothing and music • Experimented with • Sexual relationships • Use of recreational drugs

Generation Gap • Baby boomers were the largest generation in American history • Their preferences changed American society in part due to their large numbers • Music industry changed • Clothing designers changed • Universities adopted new courses

Fashion of the 1960s • Reflected a rejection of authority and restriction and a desire to be free • Long, free flowing hair • Men often grew beards • Wore loose fitting clothes • Wanted to distance themselves from the culture (including fashion) of the 1950s as much as possible

Hippies often sided with the poor and indigenous people of the world which was reflected in their clothing • Jeans • Peasant blouses • Dashikis

Art • Bright colors influenced art as well as clothing • Hippies would often paint their cars and bodies • Pop Art • Andy Warhol • Realistic artifacts • Roy Lichtenstein • Op Art • Use of fluorescent colors and optical illusions • Often created while an artist was under the influence of psychedelic drugs • Commonly used by musicians as their album covers

Sexual Revolution • Rejection of traditional family life and relationships by • Living together in communes where property, chores and each other were shared • Living with another person without getting married • Opened dialogue about sexuality • Sex and the Single Girl • Best selling novel • Human Sexual Response • Report on scientific studies about sexuality

Recreational Drug Use • Began with the beatniks of the 1950s • Use of psychedelics and marijuana became common among young adults • Timothy Leary • Worked at Harvard with Richard Alpert studying LSD • Ultimately fired for involving undergraduates in their experiments with LSD • Began to preach that LSD could free the mind advising people to “tune in, turn on, drop out”

Danger of drugs • Death from a drug overdose was a real threat • Janis Joplin • Jim Morrison • Jimi Hendrix • The realty of the dangers of trying to escape from “reality”

Music Scene • Began with the rock and roll scene of the 1950s • Music specifically for youths • Young adults of the 1960s • Embraced folk music of people from around the world • Janis Joplin’s blues style • Favored protest songs, songs about laborers and music generated during slavery

British Invasion • 1964 The Beatles first toured America • People not only liked their music but also their humor and style of hair • Rolling Stones

Woodstock Music and Art Fair • 1969 culmination of the counterculture movement in Bethel, New York • Police chose to avoid potential brutal conflicts with the concert goers by not enforcing drug laws • Was a peaceful gathering

Altamont • December 1969 at the Altamont Speedway in California • Concert for the Rolling Stones • Concert organizers failed to hire enough security so the Stones hired the motorcycle gang Hell’s Angels • Resulted in violence and the death a man who approached the stage

End of the Movement • Most who belonged to the hippie movement were children of middle class families • Ultimately by the 1980s many had blended back into mainstream culture

Today’s Schedule – 05/19/10