American%20History%20Chapter%2023:%20An%20Era%20of%20Activism

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American History Chapter 23 An Era of Activism

• III. The Counterculture

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Objectives

• Find out about social changes promoted by the
  counterculture.
• Learn how the music world of the 1960s and 1970s
  contributed to the cultural changes of this era.

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Bellringer

• Counterculture how is it a counter to
  traditional American culture?
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A) A Time of Change

• Counterculture Group of young Americans in the
  1960s who rejected conventional customs and
  mainstream culture
• hippies - peace, love, freedom, new music, new
  dress, sexual attitudes, drugs
• Baby boom resulted in huge student population
  music and clothing industry, college courses, and
  politians could not ignore

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a) Sixties Style

• Rejected restrictions and challenged authority
  women wore long hair, loose dresses men beards
  and long hair reject the suit
• Wore poor clothes and oppressed clothes
  ponchos
• Pop Art/Op Art soup cans and psychedelic drugs
  look

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b) The Sexual Revolution

• Dont need to be married to have sex
• Communal groups couples not married
• Sex and the Single Girl and Human Sexual Response

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c. The Drug Scene

• Psychedelic drugs hallucinations and altered
  perceptions of reality marijuana
• Harvard University Timothy Leary researched
  psychedelic drugs and created LSD fired Tune
  in, turn on, drop out
• Argued it freed the mine
• Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Jimi Hendrix died
  of drug overdose escape reality

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B) The Music World

• 1960s folk music
• Songs about protest, laborer, and slavery
• 1964 revolutionized music in America the Fab
  Four
• Rolling Stones and Janis Joplin

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a) Woodstock

• Woodstock Festival 1969 music festival in
  upstate New York
• Bethel, pasture heat and rain police did not
  enforce drug laws and the festival remained under
  control
• Mainstream deplored the drugs, sex, and nudity
  seemed a childish reaction to the problems of the
  era

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b) Atlamont

• 300,000 people to see the Stones in California
  Hells Angels hired to provide security beat a
  man to death
• Hippies mainly middle class when the
  counterculture ended many of them went to work
  for companies they had denounced

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Review

• What social changes were promoted by the
  counterculture?
• How did music both reflect and contribute to the
  cultural changes of this era?