The Hippie Movement
It starts…
• The hippie subculture was originally a youth
movement that arose in the United States during the
mid-1960s,and was swiftly spreading to other countries
around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is
from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks
who had moved into New York City's Greenwich Village
and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The early
"hippies" ideologies included the countercultural
values of the Beat Generation. Some created their own
social groups and communities, listened to psychedelic
rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and used drugs
such as marijuana and LSD to explore alternative states
of consciousness.
Beginning continued…
• Started in San Francisco in the Haight district
in the summer of love… 1967.
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijTe7jhjnc0
• Spread west from there
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpLqt3FXpiQ
mentality
• Their way of thinking was one of peace,
harmony, caring, and love.
• 1960 the birth Control Pill was invented
– Why was this a big deal?
• Led to “free love” among hippies
• This was in conflict with the times.
– Such as??
• Vietnam & civil rights
Peace sign & symbol
• The V, dove & olive branch, etc.
– Created as a symbol for nuclear
disarmament
Clothing & style
• What can you pick out?
Music
• HUGE part of the movement
– A way to express feelings, and bond together
• Too many bands to count.. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin,
Crosby stills & Nash, Country Joe, The Who, Sly & the
Family Stone, Grateful Dead, etc
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Drug useage
Acid tests
The Acid Tests were a series of psychedelic parties held by
Ken Kesey in the San Francisco Bay Area during the mid
1960s, centered entirely around the use, experimentation,
and advocacy of LSD, also known as "acid."
The name "Acid Test" was coined by Kesey, after the term
"acid test" used by gold miners in the 1850s. He advertised
the parties with posters that read, "Can YOU Pass The Acid
Test?", and the name was later popularized in Tom Wolfe's
1968 book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Musical
performances by the Grateful Dead were commonplace,
along with black lights, strobe lights, and fluorescent paint.
The Acid Tests are notable for their influence on the LSDbased counterculture of the San Francisco area and
subsequent transition from the beat generation to the
hippie movement.
FURTHUR bus
• Psychedelic drug use to “expand consciousness”
• MeRRY pRANkSTErS
review
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie
The WOODSTOCK festival
• Held in upstate NY.. 3,000 miles from Haight &
Ashbury. Why?
• Michael Lange, Artie Kornfeld & other
producers had the idea
• Max Yasgur’s Farm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_Festi
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clips
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PFCgAhZ
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYKY2lpx
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ORMb1u
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performances
• Three days of amazing performances
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQYDvQ1HHE – Joe Cocker
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vThD7ot9oII –
janis joplin (at night so bad video)
• Jimi Hendrix came on last and at the end
performed the Star Spangled Banner.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxJAHSXPBM
Why we study it..
• Older generations thought that the hippies
were… ?
• They belived you get a half million people
together, doing drugs, listening to rock n’ roll,
they would become violent
– If this happened they would all be viewed as
hippocrates .
– Things like “talk-down tents” to help drug users
“we did the best we could… because
we knew the whole world was
watching”
-Reference to helicopter run to get granola
• Altamont festival less than a year later
“ended” the times & the true 1960s
(december 1969)
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Hippies
Woodstock
Why is it popular among people your age??
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