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1960s Counterculture

1960s Counterculture. Stats. Demographics Population-177,830,000 Average Salary-$4,743 Minimum Wage-$1.00 per hour 850,000 students enter college resulting in emergency living quarters at most campuses. The Hippy Movement.

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1960s Counterculture

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  1. 1960s Counterculture

  2. Stats • Demographics • Population-177,830,000 • Average Salary-$4,743 • Minimum Wage-$1.00 per hour • 850,000 students enter college resulting in emergency living quarters at most campuses

  3. The Hippy Movement • The term “hippy” comes from being hip. You were either hip or you were a “square” or a “pig.” • Hippie were looking for an alternative way to live life. • Most hippies valued freedom, nature, intimacy, peace, sharing, and spirituality. * In population terms, # of teenagers and young adults were on the rise

  4. COUNTER CULTURE • Reaction against the conservative government, social norms of the 1950s, the political conservatism of the Cold War period, and the US Government's extensive military intervention in Vietnam • New Left • Middle class college students • Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) • Founded at the University of Michigan in 1960 • Organizational base for New Left • Port Huron Statement • Criticized the lack of individual freedoms • Believed colleges were a natural base to promote social change • Began protesting the lack of student freedoms • Dress code, course requirements, and discrimination in sororities, fraternities, and admissions • Began student anti-war movement

  5. COUNTER CULTURE • New Left • Free Speech Movement • Organized at Berkeley in 1964 • Used sit-ins and taking over college buildings to protest the war • Young International Party (Yippies) • Democratic National Convention in 1968 • Chicago • Anti-war protest • Police brutality • Protests- Berkeley, Penn State, Kent State

  6. Countercultural values • Free speech movement • Fuck the Establishment or “the man” • Feeling of disillusionment • Distance from the previous generation • Unrest, misdirection • Unwilling to conform • Questioning of race relations, sexuality, gender issues, etc.

  7. Civil Rights in America The Vietnam Era also proved a time of remarkable social change in American society. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders confronted racist laws and attitudes, seeking equal rights and opportunities for African Americans.

  8. Music • The most popular music of the time was psychedelic rock • Bands like Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and the Grateful Dead played free concerts at Golden Gate Park. • Concerts and be-ins were places for hippies to protest, socialize, dance, or take drugs. • At Woodstock over 250,000 hippies showed up to hear artists like Janis Joplin, The Who, Canned Heat, The Allman Brothers, and County Joe and the Fish.

  9. POPULAR CULTURE • Art • Influenced by desire to move into modern age • Artists wanted to inspire the viewer to leap into the unknown or experience art in their own way • Andy Warhol-leading name in pop art

  10. Artistic Approach • Old culture Vs. new culture • Postmodernism • Critique of commodification, mass production Warhol’s play on Botticelli’s Birth of Venus

  11. POPULAR CULTURE • Literature • Expressed problems in society • Race relations • To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee • Feminism • The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath • The Feminine Mystique-Betty Friedan • Disillusionment • Catch 22-Joseph Heller • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest-Ken Kesey

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