The Counterculture

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TheCounterculture
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• Angela Brown
• Chapter 31 Section 4

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Bellringer

• Define the word counterculture and consider how
  the values, attitudes, and activities of young
  people in the 1960s were counter to the
  traditional culture.

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Counterculture

• rejected most of the conventional social custom
  and
• experimented with new forms of dress,
• attitudes toward sexual relationships, and
• use of drugs

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A Time of Change

• Hippies people who were hip or aware of the
  latest styles
• Long hair, loose-fitting dresses or mini-skirts
  (introduced by British designer Mary Quant in
  1965)

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Mens Attire

• Men wore long hair, beards, dressed in working
  people clothes
• Both wore blue jeans with bell bottoms and plain
  cotton shirts
• Intended to look natural

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The Sexual Revolution

• Argued sex should be separate from traditional
  ties to family life
• More open discussion newspaper, magazines, and
  books printed articles that might not have been
  printed a few years earlier

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Communes

• Experienced with new living patterns
• some lived together in communal groups, shared
  property and chores
• more simply lived together without being married

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The Drug Scene

• Turned to psychedelic drugs powerful chemicals
  cause the brain to behave abnormally
  hallucinations, altered perception of reality
• Use of marijuana became more widespread.

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LSD

• Proponent of psychedelic drug use researchers
  Timothy Leary worked at Harvard University with
  Richard Alpert on chemical compound lysergic acid
  diethylamide, LSD

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Timothy Leary

• Both fired in 1963 for using undergraduates in
  experiments with LSD
• Leary preached drugs could help free the mind.
• Soldiers who did drugs in Vietnam brought them
  home.

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Joplin, Morrison, Hendrix

• Three leading musicians Janis Joplin, Jim
  Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix died of complications
  of drug overdoses

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• Deaths represented tragic excesses some people
  were driven by their reliance on drugs as an
  escape

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The Music World
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• Music both reflected and contributed to the
  cultural changes.
• The Beatles, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones,
  and Janis Joplin

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Woodstock

• Aug 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair in upstate
  NY
• strands of counterculture came together
• 400,000 people gathered in pasture in Bethel, NY
  to listen to major bands of rock world

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Woodstock

• Brutal heat and rain police choose not to
  enforce drug laws crowd under control

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• Those who attended deplored the drugs , sex,
  nudity they saw at Woodstock festival.
• Counterculture represented rejection of morals
  and values
• To many seemed a childish reaction to problems of
  era

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Altamont

• Dec. 1969 Altamont Speedway in California 300,000
  people gathered for Rolling Stones Concert
• Promoters failed to provide adequate security
• The band hired Hells Angels to keep order.

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Violence
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• Cyclists beat one man to death when he ventured
  on stage.
• Violence of Altamont contradicted values of
  counterculture.
• Signaled era of Peace and Love would not last
  forever

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• Most hippies children of comfortable middle class
  
• when counterculture failed melted back into
  mainstream
• By 1980s many held executive positions in same
  corporations they had once denounced

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Wars Opponents

• Most believe antiwar sentiments exclusively by
  young and highly educated
• 1972 University of Michigan Survey study shows
  greatest opposition from least educated parts of
  the population
• 1971 deferment eliminated by Congress

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• African Americans, small town men, and working
  class overrepresented in war.
• Soon struggle lost meaning simply tried to stay
  alive
• 1969 government instituted lottery system
• All eligible men assigned a number according to
  birth date likelihood he would be called for
  service