The Counterculture

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The Counterculture
Right Random hippies in native dress

• Section 19.3

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What is the Counter Culture?
Capture Spiro Agnew holds forth on the effete
intellectual snobs he blames for the
counterculture
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Describe the counterculture

• Culture adopted by many teenage baby boomers
• Rejected The Establishment
• middleclass values of previous generation (over
  30)
• People that represented power, authority, status
  quo
• Generation gap
• Different value, fears, attitudes
• Communicated discontent thru music
• Most prominent group Hippies

Above some hippies on a love bus below some
protest music between classes
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Describe the differences between Counterculture
and the Establishment

• Values of Establishment
• Conformity
• Product of 1950s
• Hardworking
• 9-5 jobs
• Materialistic
• Consumerism
• Trusted science, government

• Values of Counterculture
• Freewheeling
• Do your own thing.
• Unconventional occupations
• Minimalist
• Take what you need, share
• Trusted inner feelings over intellect
• Deep distrust of authority

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Who were the Hippies?

• Most visible and shocking group of the
  counterculture
• Believed in free love
• Sex without love
• Encouraged by The Pill
• Advocated
• Drug use
• Followed guru Timothy Learys call for
  experiments with LSD
• Turn on, tune in, drop out.
• Public nudity

Above more random hippies below university
officials remove protestor
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Describe the new religious movements that
appeared from the Counterculture

• New fascination with Eastern Religions
• Rejected materialism of the West
• Believed the body is a prison!
• Moonies
• Formerly called the Unification Church
• Members believe that Reverend Sun Myung Moon was
  the new Messiah
• Hare Krishna
• Followed ancient Hindu sect that worshipped the
  god, Krishna

Above Rev. Moon below a group of Hare Krishnas
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Describe City Hangouts

• Most famous
• Haight-Ashbury
• Section within San Francisco
• East Village
• Section of NY
• coffee houses provided an empty room with
  mattresses (Pad)
• Anyone could crash there
• No regard for sexual or marital status
• Diggers operated store with free clothing
• Music, open drug use, street performances common

Clockwise from upper left infamous hippie corner
in SanFran drug addict college kids in the new
hippie style
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Hangouts
Capture from clip on Haight-Ashbury
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Describe Rural Communes

• Isolated counterculture communities
• Tried to set up their utopian society
• Rejected technology, materialistic values of
  mainstream America
• Praised spontaneity
• Rejected rules, order, etc.
• Unsuccessful
• Overcrowded with Weekend Hipsters
• No money, no privacy

Pictures all depict people in 1960s rural
communes no idea why it says me in upper left
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The Stones
Capture from clip on another invasion The Stones
roll in
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How did the Counterculture affect Mainstream
America?

• Vietnam War
• Protest movement
• Diet
• Health food, vegetarian, yogurt, organically
  grown veggies
• Fashion
• Long hair, military surplus attire, tied-dyed,
  patched clothing
• Music
• Rock Roll
• Elvis, Beatles, Dylan, Hendrix
• Dance
• No partner but within a group
• Reflected counterculture stress of individuality
  within a group

Above Woodstock below Jimi Hendrix
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What was Woodstock?

• A Music and Art festival held in Woodstock, NY
  (August, 1969)
• Culmination of the counterculture
• Three Days of Peace and Love
• 32 of best known performers appeared
• Tickets were 24 but concert became free
• 400 thousands attended

Insert poster advertising Woodstock
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Country Joe Presentation
Country Joe and the Fish on stage
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Country Joe and the Fish
Capture from clip of CJF
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Janis Joplin Presentation
One of Janis Joplins looks round dark glasses
and a cabaret shirt
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Janis Joplin
Capture of Joplin performing
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Joan Baez Presentation
Joan Baez and a young Bob Dylan
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Joan Baez Live
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Hendrix Presentation
Jimi Hendrix with his unique guitar
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Jimi Hendrix Live
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Hendrix at Woodstock
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The Counterculture v. The Establishment Vietnam
Capture shows US Capitol clip is on clashes over
Vietnam policy
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Andy Warhol Presentation
Andy Warhol, by Andy Warhol (all orange, in pop
art style)
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How did the Counterculture affect Art

• Purpose was to entertain
• Poked fun at Establishment
• Andy Warhol
• Created Pop Art
• Reproduced mass produced images over and over
• The gods of the modern era
• Mocked consumer society

Warhols Marilyn Monroe nine frames with
different colors, on one poster
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Clip on Andy Warhol and Campbells Soup Can
Capture from clip on Warhols can