1963-72, Counter Culture Flashcards
Key Features
Fashion
Drug Use
Music
Key Features
Fashion
Change in youth fashion
Long hair, beads, faded jeans
Women sometimes discarded bras
Known as flower power
Key Features
Drug Use
Experimentation with marijuana and heroin more common
Favourite drug was cannabis, some graduated to LSD - inspired much art + some rock music
Key Features
Music
Move away from rock ‘n’ roll to bands like the Rolling Stones + the Doors - linked to rebellion
Songs supporting love over materialism popular - ‘We Shall Overcome’ by Joan Baez, ‘All You Need Is Love’ by the Beatles
Key Event
Woodstock
Woodstock rock festival in New York State in 1969
Attended by 400,000 people
Favourite slogan - ‘Make love not war’
Led by Joan Baez and Jimi Hendrix
Hippies
Overview
Rejected traditional ownership in favour of co-operatives or communes
Predominately from middle class backgrounds
Time magazine - every major city had ‘hippie enclaves’ and may be around 300,000
Hippies
San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury Area
Mid 1960s - alienated young people moved in
Wore alternative clothes e.g. Indian kaftans, attended happenings, smoked + sold cannabis, adopted new names, and grew their hair
Up to 100,000 hippies visited, centre of bohemian lifestyle, rechristened ‘Hashbury’
Hippies
Summer of Love
1967
Attracted tens of thousands of followers (some estimate 100,000) of counter culture from all over America
Hippies
The Diggers
Wanted a social revolution + end to capitalism
Set up money-free community, goods + services traded or given away
1967 - free food store in Golden Gate Park, free transport, healthcare, and concerts
Drugs + liberated sexual relationships part of experience
Hippies
Significance
Faded by mid-1970s
Drew attention to + popularised Eastern philosophy and religion, health foods, and environmentalism, and contributed to liberal attitudes towards sex + drugs
Helped trigger conservative backlash that elected Nixon
