adulthood Experienced WWII in childhood, Civil Rights Movement Space Exploration, First Modern "counterculture" Experienced Vietnam War/Cold War Rise of Mass Media/end of the Cold War Rise of the Information Age/Internet/War on Terror/Iraq War/Rising Gas and Food Prices Rise of the Information Age/Internet/dot com bubble Digital Globalization 20th century Baby Boomers Boom Generation / Hippie Baby Busters Generation X MTV Generation / Boomerang Generation Generation Y Echo Boom
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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
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This event was identified as such as a result of the peace movement and the emergence of the flower children. Woodstock Music Festival took place near Woodstock New York on August 15, 16, and 17, 1969, and became a symbol of the 1960s American counterculture. Woodstock began with the following four partners: Michael Lang, the manager of a rock band, Artie Kronfeld, an executive at Capitol Records, and two capitalists, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman who supplied most of the money and the original
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We Ate the Acid: A Note on Psychedelic Imagery “Symbols – symbols every where. All along my journey they flashed forth the apocalypse of utterly unimagined truths.” – Fitz Hugh Ludlow Psychedelic art typically contains a number of recurring motifs. Examples include circles, spirals, eyes, concentric shapes, grids, landscapes, nudity, long hair, skeletons and mushrooms. Other common motifs are various kinds of non-human animals, vegetation, space scenery and mandalas. And when humans and objects
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the capability to define certain aspects of culture. Though it is a single work, lasting only a few hours, the new idea can be reiterated through music, symbolism, clothing, actions and even subliminal messages. Easy Rider is an example of a counterculture in which “its norms and values are often imcompatible with or in direct opposition to the mainstreams” (Ferris and Stein 83). Drug usage was happening in reality, not just in the movie and it helped highlight concurrent events, such as
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was a chance to see if we could create the kind of world for which we’d been striving throughout the sixties: That would be our political statement — proving that peace and understanding were possible and creating a testament to the value of the counterculture. It would be three days of peace and music.” II. Body A. What Was Woodstock? (background) * How did it develop into a massive event in history? * The organizers: John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield, and Mike Lang.
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1960’s, mainly the late 60’s. Jimi is known for his songs purple haze, voodoo child, and little wing. Jimi Hendrix played music in a time where drugs came on the scene in the U.S in full force and his music was performed during the counterculture movement, rebel and hippie time. Hendrix became famous after his performances at Woodstock and Monterey. Jimi Hendrix is famous because he basically reinvented guitar playing and had a style playing style that was way ahead of his time and still is not matched
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reader can see how J. D. Salinger conveys the essence of the late 1940s; he does this through basic, obvious references to forms of entertainment, as well as through the more complex depths of the time period’s social constructs and the impending counterculture revolt of the 1960s. In the novel, many references are made to things that limit the possible time period for this novel. Many of these references dealt with forms of entertainment, from bar pianists to old-timey movies. Holden talks about his
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jail for protesting. The Chicago Seven took a stand against the Vietnam War and the government by inciting protests and spreading ideals of nonviolence, and these actions resulted in increased exposure of the unpopular Vietnam War and the rise of hippie movement and also the division of opinion in American society. During the middle of the 1960’s the United States of were experiencing social changes due to the Civil Rights movement. Many people who participated in the civil rights movement, also
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claimed new freedoms: in sexual expression, in dress, in intoxicants, in the peace and the meaning of their daily lives. The 'counterculture' they created spread rapidly. Culture and politics increasingly intermixed (long hair, marijuana use, more casual attitudes towards sex and rejection of middle class values) antiwar and student movements. Many in the counterculture believed that mind-blowing experiences with drugs or sex or music were more likely to alter the worldview of America's youth than
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