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The Counter Culture Flashcards

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1
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What is the main theme of the counter culture

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Young people questioning whether they want to live the life of their parents

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What group is influential in the growth of the counter culture

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The Beats

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what authors are influential in beat culture?

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Kerouac (The road), Alan Ginsberg (Howl)

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When were the beat’s revived?

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1960s

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what is Beatitude?

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goal to achieve a higher state of conciousness

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What are the centers of hippie culture?

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Grenwich Village, NY & Haight Ashbury in SF

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what is an important concept in hippie culture

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Homology of sensory stimulation. Different things can achieve the same goal (elevating your psyche)

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What is a psychadelic?

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Something that elevates your psyche (drugs, clothing, music etc)

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How are posters different in hippie culture?

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works of art. Try to get your brain going to create a psychedelic experience

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What influences hippie clothing

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colourful and patterned (paisley, tie dye), loose fitting a flowing. Gives a psychedelic experience while walking

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Why are drugs important to hippies

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Drugs open the doors of perception

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What are the characteristics of music performances in hippie culture

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colorful lights, loud. Songs are longer. Collective improv/jamming is common. Focus on albums/ experiences over singles

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What band is an example of counter culture?

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The grateful dead

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What are the influences of the dead

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folk rock

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What differentiates the grateful dead

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Process oriented, live band. Performances include long jam sessions, no two shows are the same

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What is Acid rock?

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more aggressive form of folk rock (less folk image) incorporates hippie culture with longer jams and explicit drug references

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What is an example of Acid Rock?

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White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

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When is white rabbit released?

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1967

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What do the lyrics of white rabbit reference

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getting lost in a trip

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what element ties together white rabbit?

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increasing dynamics (metaphor for drug experience)

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When does youth culture begin to get political?

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after 1967

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Why does youth culture begin to get political

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They realize that focus on the self has no external effect. They arent changing the world.

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What event causes youth political action

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Vietnam. youth believe the war is pointless, and dont like the draft

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What is the youth international party nicknamed

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the Yippies

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who are leaders in the youth political movement

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Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman

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What musical changes coincide with the move to youth politics

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Louder music, cultural center moves east towards traditional political centers

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What elements are characteristic of Jimi Hendrix

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Loud, with control over heavy distortion. Technically virtuostic playing

28
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What is an example of a Jimi Hendrix song?

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Voodo Child (Slight Return)

29
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When is Voodo Child released?

A

1967

30
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what are the influences of Voodo Child?

A

Blues

31
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When is Woodstock?

A

August 1969

32
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How many people are estimated to have attended woodstock?

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500K

33
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What makes woodstock a success?

A

collective cooperation, self regulation

34
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What concert is inspired by Woodstock

A

Altamont

35
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When is Altamont

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Dec 1969

36
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Who headlines/organizes Altamont

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The Rolling Stones

37
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Who do the Rolling Stones hire to do security at Altamont

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The Hells Angels

38
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Why are the Hells Angles not a great security detail

A

Beat people with pool cues filled with lead rods, stab a man to death (who may have had a gun)

39
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Why is Altamont a failure

A

Too crowded, hells angels beat people, stage is too small, no way out, man killed

40
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What band defined the counter culture?

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The Beatles

41
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What events lead to the death of the counter culture?

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Altamont, Kent State, breakup of the Beatles

42
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What is Kent State

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Political protest turned violent - 4 killed, 10 injured

43
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What was the government response to Kent State

A

no response

44
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Why were drugs seen as essential in the counter culture

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they were seen to unlock the “doors of perception”

45
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What is “Doors of Perception” a reference to?

A

Alduos Huxley essay

46
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What was Timothy Leary’s advice?

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Turn on, tune in, drop out

47
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what were the drugs of choice of the counter culture?

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LSD, pot

48
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When was LSD invented?

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1943

49
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why was LSD valued by the counter culture?

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Allowed one to see new possibilities, opening the mind to new knowledge and modes of understanding

50
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what essential counter culture book was authored by Timothy Leary

A

The Psychedelic Experience

51
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Why did drug use and easter spirituality become linked?

A

The Psychedelic Experience bases its guide to acid use on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

52
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What group pioneered the introduction of easter philosophy to the counter culture?

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The Beatles - studied under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

53
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What are the two ways that music reflected a growing interest in higher conciousness

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  1. Music used to enhance drug trips ( Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd). (Music is secondary)
  2. Understand that music is the trip ( Beatles, Doors), (music is primary)
54
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What was the typical SF concert like in the 60s

A

LSD + Rock

55
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What are two prominent bay area music venues?

A

the Fillmore & the Avalon Ballroom

56
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by what point was the sf hippiie scene established?

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Fall 1966

57
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Why was hippie music not played on the radio

A

the songs were too long

58
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what was the new free-form approach to FM radio

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longer songs, played back to back, less talking in beetween. More room forDJ flexibility

59
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What was the first successful rock radio station

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KMPX - SF (Whiliie Donahue)

60
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What was the fist major rock festival?

A

Monterey International Pop Festival

61
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Who played the Monterey International Pop Festival?

A

Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Mamas and the Papas, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding

62
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What town was Woodstock played in?

A

Bethel, New York

63
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When was Woodstock

A

Aug 15-17 1969

64
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What is the estimated attendance of woodstock?

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> 400k

65
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what is the slogan of woodstock

A

three days of peace and music

66
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Who headlined woodstock

A

Grateful deead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane,

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