The Countercultures: Once Pooh-poohed, Now Revered

The 1960’s hippie counter culture movement was a crusade that rejected the idea of a mainstream American life. The “hippies” believed in free love, sexual liberation, and equality for the minorities in society such as women and African Americans. They opposed nuclear weapons and war, and sought to seek a new meaning in life. This, being one of the most controversial eras of all time, definitely sparked a change in everyday lives worldwide. Many outcomes came from this campaign, good and bad, but drastically influenced modern day life.

This group of youths referred to as hippies developed a whole new "counter-culture," which included a minority of the "fake" hippies who merely saw the "counter-culture" as a fashion rather than something they believed in deeply. The group of hippies proclaimed itself an "alternative society," and favored very simple and communal living which included free experimentation with drugs, free experimentation of sex, and a strong commitment to "peace and love." These political and social changes such as the civil rights movements and the new "counter-culture" had lasting effects on one specific element of the decade: rock and roll music. Rock and roll musicians were not much different from any other Americans in that they were forced to go through the same hardships as the rest of the people, such as racial discrimination and unjust government, or Establishment. The main difference is that many of the "other people" (the people of everyday society) did not have the same opportunity to express their feelings with the world. The frustration with racism and prejudice was blatantly obvious in many acts due to the genre's increasing aggression and hostility. Also, the country's cry for peace and love was exemplified no better than by rock musicians on stage. In their search for something different, the youth and rock musicians attempted to find a path leading them

The Conquest of Cool examines the common perception of the Sixties counterculture. It questions the idea that the revolution and rebellion of the subculture of the 1960s in America against the consumer driven culture of the 1950s were actually a consumer driven rebellion in and of itself. The book 's primary message is to describe how Advertisers and other big business in corporate America such as soda pop bottlers and clothing companies welcomed the counterculture and perhaps were responsible for creating it. Consumer driven industry realized that instant gratification would make this new generation better consumers than their frugal post world war 2 parents. The book hints that the art and creative self-expression of the counterculture in 1960s America was reflected in, and driven by the advertising of the time, suggesting that life imitates art or that advertising imitates the culture. However, the author also suggests that advertisers anticipated the revolution and in part precipitated the counterculture, creating the culture that it marketed freedom to. We see that the 1950s advertising was characterized by an entity known as, "Organization Man.” A fabricated mold that would fit easily in the capitalist machine. During the 1950s ad agencies and advertising companies marketed a lifestyle to fit this most common mold. They tailor-made advertisements to the desires of the subculture as well as corporations. Corporations wanted a safe scientific advertising, yet the

During the early 1960s the hippies began a movement for the youth in San Francisco; it was a movement that developed very rapidly around the world. It consisted of a group of people who had an opposition against the political and social standards. This group of people chose to favor peace, love and freedom as their way of living. The hippies had their own standards of living, they rejected institutions and were always criticizing the value of the middle class. Many of them were usually all about the planet and vegetarians, they also promoted the use of mind blowing drugs. The hippies created their own communities, listen to heavy rock, embraced sexual revolution, and used drugs to adventure different stages of consciousness.

Most of the human race ignorance is greater than of their knowledge. An example of a cult of ignorance is the hippie counter culture movement of the 1960’s. Interest in science has declined throughout the years. Rather than being smart others would prefer to be good looking. Not only does this include for adolescents but also adults. Just imagine what the lose of that knowledge could have been used for in improvements in the world. Someone’s knowledge isn’t important or even matters because of their ignorance it evens it out.

America was about to experience the uttermost culture and society rude awakening around the 1960s as a result of the diverse political, civil rights,and economic, issues it was faced with. Revolving around this pivot laid the American hippie: the highly influential and extrinsic figure of its vintage vicinity. Hippies were very crucial towards the American way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm; further feeding into a movement that would then expand awareness and stretch “accepted” values. The hippies’ solutions to the dilemmas of a standardized American society were to either participate in mass protests with their alternative lifestyles and primitive acceptances,

The American counterculture movement began with the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, the termination of the United States combat involvement in Southeast Asia, the end of the draft in 1973, and the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in 1974. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was the main organizational groups of the campus-based radical movement known as the New Left in the 1960s. The New Left was a term used to describe the left wing movements in the 1960s and 1970s.

Today there is a freedom of what you can do that is protected by the Civil Rights Act. People of all races, classes, and gender are protected equally by law. Everyone is free to go about whatever they want to do without the fear of being discriminated. Females are also free to choose what they want to do in life, whether or not they want to be a housewife or pursue a career. So everyone knows the what conclusion behind what happened though how did counterculture have to do with this? Well the Civil Rights Act was passed during this time. It did not get passes over night and it took alot of convincing from many sides. According to an article I found on americanhistory.si.edu many people within the counterculture movement were concerned by the times of the 1960s. There was War, there was discrimination against race, there was fear of being destroyed by nuclear weapons, and there was a materialistic based society. The article then goes on to say that the bread and butter of this entire counterculture movement was using their own voice. Even though a person was young and had pretty much no standing in society you can be heard. People are free to say what they want and that is what they did. They expressed themselves using their own music, clothing, and even their artistic skills. They also tried to used more bold

“Don't let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.¨ - Dalai Lama. Hippies represent the counterculture of the 1960ś. Their lifestyle includes rock music, long flowy hair clothing, and hallucinogenic drugs. To most people they were seen as a disgrace and dirty to society, but to many they are a reminder of peace. Some questions that people wonder are who,what ,and why?

The history of American Hippie started in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s, hippie was one of countercultural movement, which affected American life. The movement originated on college campuses in the United States, and it spread to other countries, including Canada and Britain (“ The Hippies And American Values”). The hippie also spelled hippy or hipster (45). 1955 to 1975 was known as their movement which against the Vietnam War. Although hippies arose in part as opposed the war, they were not directly engaged in politics. Not only is it important to know the history of the hippie, but also the culture they developed by the way they lived or worked together, the clothes they wore, the music they played, the values and sentiments they

The hippie counter-culture brought with it many new things in large. It brought a new style of music,

“Have you ‘turned on’? Are You Experienced? Have you passed the Acid Test?” (Stephenson 41). All three of these questions ultimately asking the same question during the American counterculture movement: Have you dropped acid? The counterculture movement was a time of new ideas, self-expression, and change. Traditional values of America were questioned and the norm was not the norm anymore. Women began to challenge the role of traditional housewife with some women and men dropping out of society all together. Groups of hippies started to form that embraced a completely new lifestyle including growing long hair, wearing tie dye shirts, and consuming LSD. Starting at the center of the counterculture movement, Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, the

After the end of the Second World War in 1945 a change of values, beliefs started to appear among the youth generation. This young people “coming” from the Baby Boom era, term given to the period of time when an increase of births rate took place in America, started challenging the modern society they were living in. The term “counterculture” started to appear in form of movements, mainly initiated by young people who rejected the mainstream society rules. In the following report I will be focusing on the hippie movement that started in 1960s and how the. Woodstock Music and Art Festival of 1969 became the most important music festival of the 1960s counterculture and thus a symbol of the hippie movement. Identity, body and

Among uppermost significant movment which was very closely connected with the music of 60's was a hippie movement or hippie subculture. Hippies made use of music to articulate themselves on an emotional level, mentally, and also politically. To illustrate the effect of popular music as a cultural sensation, it's neccessary to get back prior the hippies to the Civil Rights Movement. The Beat Generation, particularly those related to the San Francisco Awakening steadily submitted to the 60's era counterculture, followed by a switch in terms from "beatnik" to "freak" and "hippie." Soon this activity spred out to the entire globe, affecting all popular music categories and nearly all artist during that time. Even though there were lots of distinctive groups and fundamentals resisting the US armed forces engagement in Vietnam because it started to intensify, most of the protesters, appropriately or incorrectly, became

Counterculture is a way of life and set of attitudes oppossed to or at variance with the prevalling social norms. Some examples of this subculture are white supremacy, neo-nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, etc.This work will talk about the White Supremacy in the United States.