counterculture of the 1960s

Counterculture of the 1960s

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Hippies

Influenced by Beat movement of 1950s and New Left anti-war groupsMany youth left school, work, home Peace, love and harmony

Hippie Culture

Rock n rollOutrageous clothingIllegal drugs: marijuana, LSDEmbraced BuddhismLong hairLived in communes

Hippies

Hippies

VW Van

Downside to Counterculture

Commune life led to corruptionDrug addictionJanis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix OD in 1970Most hippies returned to the society that they had once rejected

Jimi Hendrix

Culture or Counterculture?

Pop art: Andy WarholSymbolized the commercialism of the times

More Warhol Inspired Art

The Beatles

First played in US in 1964Took US by storm, hugely popularInspired millions“British Invasion”

Woodstock

1969, farm in New York400,000 arrived for this free music festivalJimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joe cocker, Joan Baez, Grateful Dead, Jefferson AirplaneHeavy rains turned the festival into one huge mud pit

Woodstock

Woodstock

Sexual Revolution

TV, books, music and movies began addressing subjects that had been tabooSome saw this as liberating, others as moral decayThe long term effects of counterculture are clear to see today, but they had a reverse affect at the time

Conservative Response

Richard Nixon wins 68 electionTraditionalists saw hippies and New Left as a threat, categorized them as dangerous rebelsMainstream US scared by counterculture, set off a wave of conservativism that is still present today

Result of counterculture