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COUNTERCULTURE & POPULAR CULTURE OF THE 1960S

COUNTERCULTURE & POPULAR CULTURE OF THE 1960S. COUNTER CULTURE. Reaction against the conservative government, social norms of the 1950s, the political conservatism of the Cold War period, and the US Government's extensive military intervention in Vietnam New Left Middle class college students

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COUNTERCULTURE & POPULAR CULTURE OF THE 1960S

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  1. COUNTERCULTURE & POPULAR CULTURE OF THE 1960S

  2. COUNTER CULTURE • Reaction against the conservative government, social norms of the 1950s, the political conservatism of the Cold War period, and the US Government's extensive military intervention in Vietnam • New Left • Middle class college students • Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) • Founded at the University of Michigan in 1960 • Organizational base for New Left • Port Huron Statement • Criticized the lack of individual freedoms • Believed colleges were a natural base to promote social change • Began protesting the lack of student freedoms • Dress code, course requirements, and discrimination in sororities, fraternities, and admissions • Began student anti-war movement

  3. COUNTER CULTURE • New Left • Free Speech Movement • Organized at Berkeley in 1964 • Used sit-ins and taking over college buildings to protest the war • Young International Party (Yippies) • Democratic National Convention in 1968 • Chicago • Anti-war protest • Police brutality

  4. COUNTERCULTURE • Hippies • Middle class youth • Dress • Jeans, tie-dyed shirts, sandals, beards, long hair • Lifestyle choices • Drugs • Marijuana • LSD (Hallucinogenic) • Music • Communes • Groups living together shaping responsibilities • Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco) • Focal point

  5. COUNTERCULTURE • Woodstock • Aug. 15-18, 1969 • Bethel, New York • 500,000 people • 32 music groups/artists • Camped outside • 30 min wait for water • 90 min wait for restrooms • 2 deaths • 2 births • Focal point of counterculture

  6. POPULAR CULTURE • Demographics • Population-177,830,000 • Average Salary-$4,743 • Minimum Wage-$1.00 per hour • 850,000 students enter college resulting in emergency living quarters at most campuses

  7. POPULAR CULTURE • Architecture • Refinement of Modernism • St. Louis Arch-Eero Saarinen • Walter Gropius-Pan Am Building (Met Life) • Art • Influenced by desire to move into modern age • Artists wanted to inspire the viewer to leap into the unknown or experience art in their own way • Andy Warhol-leading name in pop art

  8. POPULAR CULTURE • Literature • Expressed problems in society • Race relations • To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee • Feminism • The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath • The Feminine Mystique-Betty Friedan • Disillusionment • Catch 22-Joseph Heller • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest-Ken Kesey

  9. POPULAR CULTURE • Music • Rhythm & Blues (R & B) • African Americans • Supremes • Aretha Franklin • James Brown • Jimi Hendrix • Folk Music • Counterculture • Bob Dylan • Joan Baez • Peter, Paul & Mary

  10. POPULAR CULTURE • Music • Teenage influence • Beach Boys • Beatles • Righteous Brothers • Acid/psychedelic Rock • Influenced by drug use • Jefferson Airplane • Grateful Dead

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