COUNTERCULTURE

COUNTERCULTURE• The counterculture

movement was the nickname given to youth in the 1960’s who rejected mainstream American society and values.

• Goal was to create an alternative society based on peace, love, acceptance and individual freedom.

HIPPIE SLOGAN• “Tune in, Turn on, Drop out.”• Created by Harvard psychology professor Timothy Leary to

get Americans to embrace psychedelic drug use, especially the use of LSD.

• 'Tune in' meant to use drugs to open your mind to new perspectives.

• 'Turn on' meant be a part of the modern change in society…the youth movement.

• Drop out of society and its commitments. Self-reliance. Do what you want to do rather than what is expected by authority figures and society.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zHmi9y-KLo&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

HIPPIE CULTURE• The hippie culture was

marked by rock ‘n’ roll music, outrageous clothing, sexual freedom (free love-good timing for the invention of birth control), and drug use (marijuana and LSD).

• Wore torn jeans, loose clothes, tie-dyed t-shirts, military garments, love beads, and Indian jewelry.

• Long hair was “in” to show rebellion.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DHxi7HSx84&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

COMMUNES• The hippie capital of the

world was located in San Francisco at the corners of Haight and Ashbury streets because California didn’t outlaw hallucinogenic drugs until 1966.

• Hippies lived together in communes and shared EVERYTHING.

MUSIC• Hippies embraced rock

‘n’ roll music and protest songs.

• Musicians like the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and the Doors became very popular.

WOODSTOCK

AUGUST 1969 IN NEW YORK 3 DAY MUSIC FESTIVAL

Woodstock Video

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLdxwwXRcx0&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

SEXUAL REVOLUTION• Sexual revolution=American attitudes toward sexual

behavior became more casual, permissive, and open.• TV, books, magazines, and music began addressing subjects

that had once been only discussed in private.• Birth control invented. • 2 pornographic magazines companies become popular:

Playboy and Penthouse.• Result=more liberal and immodest clothing (mini skirt and

string bikini), tolerance for people who are “different”, lack of respect for the social norms, open topics of conversation.

• Moral decay?

CHILDREN’S BILL OF RIGHTS