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TThhee A Afffflluueenntt SSoocciieettyy• Post-WWII

economic boom• Private

sector wealth

• Public sector poverty

TThhee M Maann i inn tthhee GGrraayy FFllaannnneel l SSuuiitt• Search for

purpose in a world dominated by business

• Materialism vs. meaning

DDeeaatthh oof f aa SSaalleessmmaann• Play by Arthur

Miller• Lack of

fulfillment from materialistic life

• “You can’t eat the orange and throw away the peel. A man is not a piece of fruit!”

CCaattcchheer r iinn t thhee R Ryyee• Adolescent angst,

alienation, sexuality

TThhee BBeeaattss

Allen Ginsberg

HHoowwllI saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flatsfloating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz…

JJaammeess D Deeaann

“Rebel Without a Cause”

BBeerrrryy & & PPrreesslleeyy

“Jailhouse Rock”“Johnny B. Goode”

BBrriittiisshh IInnvvaassiioonn• The Beatles

on the Ed Sullivan show, 1964

• Other bands– Rolling

Stones– The Who– The

Yardbirds

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“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

JJiimmii H Heennddrriixx• Revolutioniz

ed American rock music

• Woodstock, 1969

• “Star Spangled Banner/Purple Haze”

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Andy Warhol & Roy Lichtenstein

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““NNeevveerr TTrruusst t AAnnyyoonne e OOvveerr TThhiirrtty”y”

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• Center of San Francisco’s hippie/drug/art culture (hippie = counterculture)

• Summer of Love, 1967– “If you're going to San Francisco,

be sure to wear some flowers in your hair...If you're going to San Francisco,Summertime will be a love-in there.”

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WWooooddssttoocckk, , 11996699

Richie Richie HavensHavens

Swami Swami SatchidanandaSatchidananda Ravi ShankarRavi Shankar Joan BaezJoan Baez

SantanaSantana Grateful DeadGrateful Dead Janis JoplinJanis Joplin The WhoThe Who

Jefferson AirplaneJefferson Airplane Crosby, Stills & Crosby, Stills & NashNash

Jimi HendrixJimi HendrixCreedence Creedence Clearwater Clearwater

RevivalRevival

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AAllttaammoonntt CCoonncceerrtt• “Woodstock

of the West Coast,” 1969

• Murder by Hell’s Angels while Rolling Stones performed

CChhaarrllees s MMaannssoonn• “Manson

Family” cult• Serial murders

by “flower children”

NNiixxoon n PPrreessiiddeennccyy• “Law and

Order”• “Silent

Majority”

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