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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The CountercultureChapter 23, Section 3
Countercultureadopting 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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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