The Counterculture(Hippies)

Chap 23 Sec 1

Pg. 762 - 765

Woodstock

• Symbolized the Hippie movement

• Massive Traffic jams• Shortages of food,

water, medical & sanitary facilities

• +400K attended• 3 accidental deaths• 2 babies born

Hippies

Counterculture/Hippies

• Counter means against/opposite• Hippies had values that opposed mainstream

culture• Against customs in dress, music & behavior• Promoted peace, love & freedom• Had freer views on sex & drugs• Promoted living together, pre-marital sex• Lived in communes: small communities with

common interests & shared resources• Diff. values led to generation gap: no

understanding between old & young

Beginnings

• Beatniks focused on not being materialistic & individuality

• Civil rights movement showed social & political protest worked. That led to anti Vietnam protests

Sex & Drugs & Rock-n-Roll

Sex & Drugs & Rock-n-Roll• “The Crystal Ship is being filled, a thousand girls, a

thousand pills a million ways to spend yo’ time, when we get back I’ll drop a line.” The Crystal Ship by The Doors

• “One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small and the ones that mother gives you don’t do anything at all, go ask Alice when she’s 10 ft. tall.” White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane

• “Sometimes, I’m overcome thinkin’ bout it. Makin’ love in the green grass, behind the stadium with you. My brown eyed girl.” Brown-Eyed Girl by Van Morrison

• “He’s lookin’ for that home and I hope he finds it. But I'd trade all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday, to be holdin’ Bobby's body next to mine. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose” Me & Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin

Beatlemania!!!

Music & Art

• 70 mill. Watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan show in 1964

• Tim Leary said people should “Tune in, turn on & drop out” of mainstream society

“Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?”

27 Club

Counterculture Ends

• Drug use led to addictions & OD’ing

• Lack of focus and violence led to the decline

Write & Answer Questions. Explain in detail

• What factors influenced the rise of the counterculture?

• What characteristics define the counterculture?• Why do you think the young people of the

1960’s were called the “counterculture”?• Why did the counterculture fall apart?• What was the counterculture & what impact did

it have on society?