Transcript Counterculture - Trimble County Schools

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The
Counterculture
Angela Brown
Chapter 31 Section 4
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Bellringer:
• Define the word counterculture and
consider how the values, attitudes, and
activities of young people in the 1960s
were “counter” to the traditional culture.
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Counterculture
 rejected most of the
conventional social
custom and
 experimented with
new forms of dress,
 attitudes toward
sexual relationships,
and
 use of drugs
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A Time of Change
• Hippies – people
who were “hip” or
aware of the latest
styles
• Long hair, loosefitting dresses or
mini-skirts
(introduced by British
designer Mary Quant
in 1965)
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Men’s Attire
• Men wore long hair,
beards, dressed in
working people
clothes
• Both wore blue jeans
with bell bottoms and
plain cotton shirts
• Intended to look
natural
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The Sexual Revolution
• Argued sex should be separate from
traditional ties to family life
• More open discussion – newspaper,
magazines, and books printed articles
that might not have been printed a few
years earlier
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Communes
• Experienced with
new living patterns
• some lived together
in communal
groups, shared
property and
chores
• more simply lived
together without
being married
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The Drug Scene
• Turned to
psychedelic drugs
– powerful chemicals
cause the brain to
behave abnormally =
hallucinations,
altered perception
of reality
• Use of marijuana
became more
widespread.
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LSD
• Proponent of
psychedelic drug use
– researchers
Timothy Leary
worked at Harvard
University with
Richard Alpert on
chemical compound
lysergic acid
diethylamide, LSD
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Timothy Leary
• Both fired in 1963 for
using
undergraduates in
experiments with
LSD
• Leary preached
drugs could help free
the mind.
• Soldiers who did
drugs in Vietnam
brought them home.
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Joplin, Morrison, Hendrix
• Three leading
musicians – Janis
Joplin, Jim
Morrison, and Jimi
Hendrix died of
complications of
drug overdoses
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• Deaths represented
tragic excesses
some people were
driven by their
reliance on drugs as
an escape
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The Music World
• Music both
reflected and
contributed to the
cultural changes.
• The Beatles, Mick
Jagger of the Rolling
Stones, and Janis
Joplin
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Woodstock
• Aug 1969
Woodstock Music
and Art Fair in
upstate NY
• strands of
counterculture came
together
• 400,000 people
gathered in pasture
in Bethel, NY to
listen to major bands
of rock world
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Woodstock
• Brutal heat and rain
– police choose not
to enforce drug
laws = crowd under
control
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• Those who attended
deplored the drugs ,
sex, nudity they saw
at Woodstock
festival.
• Counterculture
represented
rejection of morals
and values
• To many seemed a
childish reaction to
problems of era
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Altamont
• Dec. 1969 Altamont
Speedway in
California 300,000
people gathered for
Rolling Stones
Concert
• Promoter’s failed to
provide adequate
security
• The band hired
Hell’s Angels to
keep order.
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Violence
• Cyclists beat one
man to death when
he ventured on
stage.
• Violence of Altamont
contradicted values
of counterculture.
• Signaled era of
“Peace and Love”
would not last forever
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• Most hippies
children of
comfortable middle
class
• when counterculture
failed melted back
into mainstream
• By 1980s many
held executive
positions in same
corporations they
had once
denounced
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War’s Opponents
• Most believe antiwar sentiments
exclusively by young and highly educated
• 1972 University of Michigan Survey
study shows greatest opposition from
least educated parts of the population
• 1971 deferment eliminated by Congress
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• African Americans, small town men, and
working class overrepresented in war.
• Soon struggle lost meaning – simply tried to
stay alive
• 1969 government instituted lottery system
• All eligible men assigned a number according
to birth date = likelihood he would be called for
service
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