...(MacFarlane124). Made up of the younger population of the time this new culture was such a radical society that they were given their own name, which is still used today. They came to be called the Hippies. The Hippie movement started in San Francisco, California and spread across the United States, through Canada, and into parts of Europe (Hippie). But it had its greatest influence in America. During the 1960's a radical group called the Hippies shocked America with their alternative lifestyle and radical beliefs. Hippies came from many different places and had many different backgrounds. All Hippies were young, from the ages of 15 to 25 (Hippie). They left their families and did it for many different reasons. Some rejected their parents' ideas, some just wanted to get away, and others simply were outcasts, who could only fit in with the Hippie population. Fewer than twenty-five became a magical age. Young people all over the world were united by this bond (MacFarlane, 71). This bond was of Non-conformity and it was the Creed of the Young (MacFarlane, 75). Most Hippies came from wealthy middle class families. Some people said that they were spoiled and wasting their lives away. But to Hippies themselves this was a way of life and no one was going to get in the way of their dreams and ambitions. Hippies flocked to a certain area of San Francisco on the corner of Haight Street and Ashbury Street, where the world got their first view of this unique group. This place came to be known as...
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...responsibility sheds light on the determining issue of the hippies. They, like all humans throughout history, do not love God. At birth, humans are enemies of God, “…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23 ESV). They only sought for their own gain and comfort. In the natural heart of man, there is love for none but himself. Not only was their lack of love for God evident in their incessant protests of most everything, but it was also evident in their brazen, sinful lifestyle. The hippies are known today for their motto of “sex, drugs and rock and roll.” They are known for long hair, laziness, psychedelic, drug induced music, and “casual” sex with those who practiced their same beliefs. However, the drug use of the hippies is what they are most remembered for. The extensive use of and experimentation with drugs fueled the foolishness of the hippies....
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...Hippies: How & why did it start? Between 1896 and 1908, a German youth movement arose as a countercultural reaction to the organized social and cultural clubs that centered around German folk music. Known as Der Wandervogel ("migratory bird"), the movement opposed the formality of traditional German clubs, instead emphasizing amateur music and singing, creative dress, and communal outings involving hiking and camping.[15] Inspired by the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Goethe, Hermann Hesse, and Eduard Baltzer, Wandervogel attracted thousands of young Germans who rejected the rapid trend toward urbanization and yearned for the pagan, back-to-nature spiritual life of their ancestors.[16] During the first several decades of the 20th century, Germans settled around the United States, bringing the values of the Wandervogel with them. Some opened the first health food stores, and many moved to Southern California where they could practice an alternative lifestyle in a warm climate. Over time, young Americans adopted the beliefs and practices of the new immigrants. One group, called the "Nature Boys", took to the California desert and raised organic food, espousing a back-to-nature lifestyle like the Wandervogel.[17] Songwriter Eden Ahbez wrote a hit song called Nature Boy inspired by Robert Bootzin (Gypsy Boots), who helped popularize health-consciousness, yoga, and organic food in the United States Music: Hippies use music to express themselves emotionally, spiritually...
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...Martha Marshall JOUR 374 Krista Coriaty 11/05/2015 Op-Ed: It’s not just for hippies anymore Potheads –– we all know them. They can be found lounging on someone’s couch in the middle of the day with a bong in their hand, or in the kitchen raiding the refrigerator and cabinets for munchies. Maybe they are staring blankly at a white wall while having the deepest conversation about life and the world around them. Regardless, they’ll never remember what they talked about. With the legalization of marijuana well on its way, many people are deciding to come out of the pot box. According to Gallup, 53% of Americans say marijuana should be made legal. However, when Gallup first asked the question, they found that just...
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...other countries around the world. 2. The word 'hippie' came from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into New York City's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. 3. The origins of the terms hip and hep are uncertain, though by the 1940s both had become part of African American jive slang and meant "sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date". 4. The Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies inherited the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation. 5. Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and some used drugs such as cannabis, LSD, and magic mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness. 6. Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. 7. Since the 1960s, many aspects of hippie culture have been assimilated by mainstream society. 8. The religious and cultural diversity espoused by the hippies has gained widespread acceptance, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual concepts have reached a larger audience. 9. The hippie legacy can be observed in contemporary culture in myriad forms, including health food, music festivals, contemporary sexual mores, and even the cyberspace revolution. Origin 1. A July 1967 Time Magazine study on hippie philosophy credited the foundation of the hippie movement with historical precedent as far back as the counterculture...
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...They began to take a rebellious attitude, withdrawing from the society they condemned for a comfortable and conservative attitude. They began, then, to meet in communes, constituted as free organizations and without hierarchies, in total contrast to what was happening in bourgeois society. The meetings of the hippies became more and more known, but what was installed in the memory, was the festival of "Woodstock" in 1969, which met for three days, half a million young people. In addition, the hippie movement found in rock, an unparalleled mode of expression, its basic values were tolerance and love. The hippie icon is usually characterized by a man with long hair and a beard much longer than what is considered "normal" for the time. Both sexes tended to leave their hair long and imitate the African-American style. Most of the society of the time, considered these "long hairs" as an offense, or as synonymous with dirt, or women thing. The fact of using long hair, for both sexes and their particular way of dressing, acted as a sign of belonging and a sample...
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...In everyday life we are surrounded by consumption. We buy items every day, we pass millions of shops on our way home and see every other person carrying a branded shopping bag. So what exactly do we mean by consumption? The everyday use of the term nowdays states that 'consumption' is about 'use'. In postomodern accounts, cultural consumption is seen as being the very meterial out of which our identites are being construct – we become what we consume. Mackay (1997, p.4) In the 20 th century mass production has led to the commodification of culture, with the rise of cultural industries. Consumption serves the interests of manufactures seeking greater profit, and citisens have become the passive victims of advertisers. Mackay (1997, p.5) Boudreillard has a theory about consumer commodities. In late capitalism they developed the capacity to take up a wide range of symbolic associations which overlay their initial use-value and hence become comodity signs which leads to the loss of a sense of reality.Featherstone (1991,p. 56). Commodities came to lack authenticity and met ' false needs' . Consumers began to have a passive role , be manipulated, rather than creative and active beings. Karl Marx in his theory of capitalism says that production is for the market and for profit. Veblen's in his reaserch explains how goods are used as symbolic markers of social status, and how consumption is for the purpose of imprassing others.Mackay (1997, p.4) In 1984, Bourdieu provides a seeing...
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...1970’s Fashion Americans celebrated the first Earth day in 1970. Earth day is now celebrated on April 22 in the United States. Hippies primarily were the ones who got Earth day passed by the government. Nightclubs of the 1970’s were called discos. Strobe lights and mirror balls reflected the dancers while disk jockeys were playing the 70’s latest hits. In the 1970’s fashion was affected by the Vietnam War, Battle of Civil Rights, and music. The Vietnam War started in the 1960’s and continued on in the 1970’s. The Battle for Civil Rights was also occurring at the same time. Protests from left to right was thought to never end. In 1972, an athletic company called Nike was launched. Its logo became world famous and well known soon after it was launched. 50 percent of all the shoes sold in the United States were running shoes....
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...In the 1960’s the United states was on the brink of war. A while after the bay of pigs invasion president Kennedy was killed. The effects of politics on the United states influenced the next generation to make completely different choices. President Nixon was in office and started offensive operations in vietnam which warranted the creation of the war powers act. The Vietnam war started in the mid 60’s and started a new movement of peace. The main influence to the new generation was the music. A new type of music was created and appropriately named “acid rock”. “Acid rock” was a category of music that used the effects of drugs to boost the feeling of the music. The hippies adopted this music as their own. “Acid rock” brought on a new type...
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...Hippie Culture Edit 0 22… Hippie Culture Hallie Israel and Molly Clark Overview Hippies represent the counterculture of the 1960’s. Their lifestyle is usually associated with rock music, hallucinogenic drugs, and long, flowy hair and clothing. They were seen by some as disrespectful and dirty and a disgrace to society, but to many they are a reminder of a more peaceful, carefree part of America’s history. Hippies were strongly against violence and supported liberal policies and freedom of personal expression, their lifestyles centering around the concepts of peace, freedom, and harmony for all people. Generally, counterculture is used to describe the culture of a group of people whose morals, values, core ideals, and lifestyle differs, contradicts, or is polar to those of mainstream society at the time. Culturally, it is often described as a social equivalent to extremely liberal politics and radicalism. Who The hippies of the 1960’s were the teenagers of the baby boom generation, so they were found in large numbers. They were generally Caucasian, middle-class, white teenagers between the ages of 15-25 who were tired of the restrictions put on them by society and their conservative parents. Most lived in urban areas or came from an urban background. They were tired of conforming and began to express themselves in a radical way. Hippies didn’t care about money and worked as little as possible. Instead, many of them shared what they had and lived together in large...
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...killing more than one hundred soldiers per week, and the civil rights struggles. There continued to be a deep anxiety about communism taking over the United States and the threat of atomic weapon. A part of that generation came to be known as “hippies,” who thought that they could bring change to the world by spreading peace and love. The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco, California was a small and low-income area for modern families to live, until January 14, 1967 when there was a “coming together” and the Haight-Ashbury district became the home of modern jazz, hippies, communal living, and turning to drugs as a new way of living. Music began to change, LSD and acid became a way of life, food was served free, furniture and clothes were being distributed at no cost to people, and money became the root of all evil. They thought they could make the world into what they wanted by acting it out, but the hippies were extremely unwelcomed by the long-time residents. When spring break came around people, especially kids, from all over the country were visiting Haight-Ashbury because peace and love was starting to sound good. The war and the civil rights movements were beginning to take over people’s homes, and they needed a break. The hippies continued to encourage everyone to come to Haight-Ashbury, observe and join the way they live. But by the time summer came around, things started to take a turn for the worse. Interviews with people who were actually living...
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...in Vietnam, racism was still alive in many urban areas, and the pressure to conform; a growing number of the younger generation rejected the American way of life. These were known as hippies. The resulting movement, termed the counterculture, embraced an alternative lifestyle characterized by long hair, brightly colored clothes, communal living, free sex, and rampant drug use. Distrustful of the American government and what they perceived as an increasingly materialistic society, hippies and other members of the counterculture attracted a great amount of media attention during the 1960s. Throughout the decade many counterculture events increased the movement’s notoriety, but one in particular, the Summer of Love. This gathering of young people is often considered to have been a social experiment because of all the alternative lifestyles, which became more common and accepted such as gender equality, communal living and free love. This was the time to gain awareness of all the hatred toward people who were different and weren’t socially accepted. It was to eliminate barriers toward the socialization between everyone. The hippies were sometimes referred as flower children. Many were suspicious of the government acts and laws. They rejected consumerist values of materialism and media. Most hippies were also opposed to any type of violence, including the Vietnam War. A few were interested in politics; others focused on art, music, painting, poetry or religious and meditative movements...
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...The Counterculture Revolution What did the Hippies of the Counterculture Revolution value other than music, art and sexuality? The Counterculture Revolution changed America by influencing freedom of speech, promoting the civil rights movement and exposing the US to illegal drugs. The Counterculture Revolution started in the early 1960’s lasting through the 1970’s. The young adults and teens by this time were considered Hippies also known as the dropouts of society. They wanted to avoid doing things the same way their parents did. They introduced so many things to America such as drugs, arts, new music, new styles, new morals, etc. Everyone knows all of these things, but today nobody really sees how much they actually changed...
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...Duveholmsgymnasiet Katrineholm Frida Sjödin! ! ! Maj 2013 Ungdomskulturer Hippies & Punkare Källor och metod Min metod har varit en kvalitativ undersökning där jag valt att använda internet, tv och böcker som hjälp när jag söker efter information. Jag har till mestadels använt mig av Internet där det var ganska svårt att hitta bra och trovärdiga källor. Jag har även sett några videor på Youtube för att få en bättre förståelse samt letat fakta i boken Från Elvis till Elvis av Mattias Axén. Arbete/fakta Hippies Hippie rörelsen växte fram i slutet av 60 talet som en form av ungdomsrevolt och kärlek samt icke-våldsideologi. Kulturens födelseplats är osäker men brukar förläggas till staden Haight-Ashbury i San Francisco år 1966. Hippie kulturen har sina rötter i amerikansk undergroundkultur men fick en stor spridning i USA och Europa genom media. Hippies betraktade sig som en opolitisk eller anarkistisk del av ungdomsupproret med sina slangord som ”flower power” ”peace, love & understanding” och ”make love, not war”. De var flitiga brukare av droger som marijuana, hash och LSD som spelade en betydande roll i hippie rörelsen. Bland hippisarna gällde det att leva i nuet och experimentera sig fram och det fanns även en stark dragning till de indiska vishetslärorna. 1 Hela ideologin gick ut på att man skulle känna sig fri och älska mer. Med hjälp av det nya preventivmedlet P pillret kunde unga tjejer och kvinnor ha samlag med flera olika personer utan att behöva oroa sig...
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...The Civil Rights Movement happened during the 1950s and 1960s, so African American people can have equal rights. African American people were segregated and discriminated by white people. Remember the Titans took place during The Civil Rights Movement and showed how African American people were discriminated. In Remember the Titans no one got along at first and eventually learned to work together through an interest like football. Remember the Titans depicts different forms of hate filled actions and sayings because it represents how African American people were discriminated(1),(2) people that have a different sexual orientation were also shown being discriminated,(3) and people that considered themselves hippies. To begin...
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