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The Counterculture

The Counterculture. Chapter 23, Section 3. Counterculture. adopting values that are different than everyone around you Hippies promoted peace, love, freedom new styles of dress and music, freer attitudes toward sexual relationships and the recreational use of drugs

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The Counterculture

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  1. The Counterculture • Chapter 23, Section 3

  2. Counterculture • adopting values that are different than everyone around you • Hippies • promoted peace, love, freedom • new styles of dress and music, freer attitudes toward sexual relationships and the recreational use of drugs • their behavior created a huge generation gap between them and their parents • because they were the baby boomer generation, there were many of them and they greatly influenced culture

  3. Sixties Style • young women wore their hair long and down and chose loose fitting dresses • men grew their hair out and wore beards • they tried to look as different from their parents as they could but their dress became the “uniform” of their generation • they felt sympathy for and worked to help the poor of the world; they dressed as peasants might dress and often wore indigenous styles

  4. Sixties Art • hippies painted their cars and their bodies • Pop Art became popular (Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein) it featured realistic depictions of items from everyday life • Op Art used neon colors (often for black lights) and involved optical illusions; was often used for album covers or posters

  5. The Sexual Revolution • traditional views were rejected • they believed that sex should not be tied to family and should be “free” • they lived in communes and shared partners freely (diseases?) • Many people were very upset with this behavior

  6. The Drug Scene • Psychedelic drugs and hallucinogens cause the brain to behave abnormally and permanently change it • marijuana was very popular among youth as well • Timothy Leary was working on research at Harvard University and discovered LSD; he encouraged young people to “Tune in, turn on and drop out” • Not everyone was doing these things and they were very dangerous (Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix all died of overdoses)

  7. Music • folk music became popular because it told a story or had a message (Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Arlo Guthrie) • The British Invasion brought many groups here and changed music (Rolling Stones, Beatles) • Lots of songs protested the war in Vietnam

  8. Woodstock • August 1969 • in a field in Bethel, New York • attended by 400,000 people • Police chose to avoid confrontation by not enforcing drug laws • many bands and people camped out

  9. Altamont • December 1969, California • attended by 300,000 people • Rolling Stones concert • When the security did not show up, the Stones hired the Hell’s Angels (notoriously violent motorcycle gang) to provide their security and they beat a man to death as he approached the stage • this was the last large concert

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