Counterculture Movement1965-1971

• Counterculture- a movement made up of mostly white, middle-class college youths who tried to establish a new culture based on love and peace.

CopyrightedJeff Rainer2/3/05

Timothy Leary

• “Turn on, Tune in, Drop out” were the words of counterculture leader Timothy Leary. The counterculture grew from the 1950’s Beat Movement.

One Flew over Cuckoo’s Nest

La Honda

Bus Tours

Acid Tests

Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters

Throughout the mid- and late sixties tens of thousands of idealistic youth left school, work, or home to create what

they hope would be a perfect community of love, peace, and harmony

The Age of Aquarius

• Or Hippie Era was marked by Rock ‘N’ Roll music, outrageous clothing, sexuality, and illegal drugs.

When the Moon is in the Seventh House, and Jupiter aligns with Mars

Then peace shall guide the planets, and love will steer the stars This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius ....

from: Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In; by Rado/Ragni/MacDermot;EMI Music.

Language of the Counterculture

Different slang word from the Counterculture movement included;

Flower Power. Make love, not war. Peace. Love. Cool. Hip. Hippie. Hippie girl. Groovy. Groove on that. Live for today. Mellow out. Mellow down. Mellow yellow. E-lec-trical banana. Far out. Out of sight. Can you dig it? You dig it? Dig it? Dig? Dig. Dig it. I dig it. I can dig it. Like, wow. Like...like, hey man, wow. Safe as mother's milk. Hell no, we won't go. Are you straight? Are you bent? Are you a narc? Twisted. Alice. Acid. Acid Head. Acid Freak. Bad trip. Bum trip. Grass. Pot. Pot Head. Mary Jane. Shrooms. Morning Glorys. Uppers. Downers. Reds. Whites. Yellows. Crosses. Hard stuff. Speed. Speed Freak. Flying. Trip. Trippy. Tripping. Trip out. Tripping out. Freak. Freaky. Freaking. Freak out. Freaking out. High. Up. Spacey. Space out. Spaced out. Spacing. Spacing out. Strung out. Down. Downer. Coming down. Cold Turkey. Crash. Crashing. Crashing and burning.Biting the big one.The ultimate bad trip.Dying.Good friends gone forever.Total bummer.

Monterey Music FestivalThe idea for the Monterey International Pop Festival came out of the mid-60's belief that what had been pop music was now a much more serious art form, and could take its place alongside jazz Artists agreed to perform for free, and the Summer of Love was born. The first major music festival was held on June 16, 17 and 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. 

Monterey Pop - The USA debut of...The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Died in 1970….Drug Overdose

1967 Summer of Love

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The Flower Power movement reached its short but intensive climax in the "Summer of Love" in 1967. Many different people came together to build a new society. They wanted a new, individual style. The postwar generation tried to build its own culture in the 50's. They refused traditional standards and values. Their most important colors were black, red and white - white for the drugs, black for their clothes and the coffee and red for the wine. Their values were radical individualism, an uncontrolled way of life expressed in parties,drugs and free love.

Pictures from Summer of Love

Haight-Ashbury Streets

This "revolution" took place mainly in Haight Ashbury, a small neighborhood in San Francisco. The Haight Ashbury was little more than a few square blocks which stretched from the edge of Golden Gate Park for a half-mile down Haight Street .One could find cafes, head shops , poster shops, hip boutiques, the Oracle office and the Straight Theatre

The Digger Feeds

The Haight was the sight of numerous free concerts by the local band, protest rallies, and the place where the Diggers fed new arrivals daily. With the advent of the media proclaiming the "Summer of Love", the Haight's population zoomed from 15,000 in 1965 to nearly 100,000 by the summer of '67. The burden that this placed on the neighborhood's resources was too much; the small hippie community was overwhelmed, and the neighborhood quickly deteriorated under the social strain.

Music of the Counterculture

• Music feature Hall of Fame groups Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. As well as rising artists Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.

                                                   

and the Pig Commune

Commune style living became Popular among Hippies afterThe Summer of Love. This styleOf living gave Hippies a chanceTo connect with nature and religion.Wavy Gravy was a leader of one of the Pig Commune in New Mexico. Wavy Gravy also was the MC at the Woodstock festival.

Psychedelic Drugs

Psychedelic Drugs suchAs LSD became very Popular with the Movement because they Were not banned in California until 1966.

Woodstock Music FestivalThe legendary Woodstock Festival took place over three days in August 1970- August 15, 16, 17. Among the performers, there were Janis Joplin, Santana, Richie Havens, Sly and the Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane, Sha Na Na and Jimi Hendrix, or as he called his band, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows. Hendrix was scheduled to close the show on Sunday night, but due to delays, Hendrix and band took the stage on Monday morning, to a crowd of only about thirty-thousand: far less than the estimated peak crowd of four hundred- thousand

Decline of the Counterculture

In the beginning of the 70's drugs, crime and everything that went with it have gained too strong an influence. After a while even the tolerant San Franciscans were fed up with it. The Rehabilitation Assistance Program helped to improve the living conditions in1973. "Urban Pioneers" started to buy and rebuild the shabby houses and made Haight-Ashbury to a considerable place again. Today traditional and modern influences are combined to a mixed society which comes together at "Haight Street Fair" annually.

Haight-Ashbury was the center of the hippie movement in the 1960s. As the popularity of the movement increased, many people flocked to the area, leading to an increase in crime, the gradual deterioration of the neighborhood, and the decline of the hippie image. To escape this negative association, members of the movement decided to symbolically “kill off” the hippies by holding mock funerals.

Charles Manson

Charles Manson is pictured on the left and three of his followers, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten. He had a very strong hold on his woman followers

Manson was born in 1934. He was the source of a lot of murders in the 1960's. He was the leader of a "family" of drifters, dropouts and anyone who needed a safe haven to turn to. They devoted themselves to God, the Devil and even Manson. Under his instructing he had seven people stabbed to death near Los Angeles in August 1969.

Altamont Speedway

                                      

Altamount Speedway Concert in California in 1969 just six months after the peaceful concert in Woodstock the nightmarish murder occurred in front of the stage as the Hells Angels hired as the body guards for the group and killed 18 year old Meredith Hunter. This event was made into a movie called Gimme Shelter. The incident happened during the group playing the song Sympathy for the devil and the group was banned from playing this song in many locations.

The Legacy of the CountercultureAs the counterculture ended if left America with more liberating views in the areas of dress, appearance, lifestyle,and social behavior. While some Americans found it liberating, some said it was the start of moral decay in the country

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