THE COUNTERCULTURE

CHAPTER 31, SEC. 3

KEY TERMS

COUNTERCULTURE

HAIGHT-ASHBURY

THE BEATLES

WOODSTOCK

IMPORTANT DATES

1964: THE BEATLES TOUR THE U.S.

1967: THE BEATLES RELEASE SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND ALBUM

SUMMER, 1967: “THE SUMMER OF LOVE”

AUG., 1969: WOODSTOCK CONCERT

THE MANSON FAMILY MURDERS

THE COUNTERCULTUREORIGINS:

1950’S BEATNIK MOVEMENTTHE 1960’s NEW LEFT MOVEMENT

WHO?THE “HIPPIES”MOSTLY WHITE, UPPER-MIDDLE & MIDDLE-CLASS COLLEGE-AGE YOUTHS

WHERE? MAJOR CITIES IN N.E. & WEST COASTEX.?

SAN FRANCISCONEW YORK

COLLEGE CAMPUSES IN SAME AREASIDEAS?

SAME AS THE NEW LEFTWANTED MORE “FREEDOM” (!?) – WERE “NONCONFORMIST”ANTI-WARANTI-MATERIALISM

HIPPIES & HIPPIE BUS

THE COUNTERCULTUREBEGINNINGS:

WHEN? EARLY 1960’sWHY?

DR. TIMOTHY LEARY, HARVARD UNIV.“TUNE IN, TURN ON, DROP OUT”ENCOURAGED L.S.D. USE

GOALS: DID THEY HAVE ANY?CREATE A WORLD OF PEACE, LOVE, AND HARMONYCALLED THE “AGE OF AQUARIUS”

HOW?OUTRAGEOUS CLOTHING & APPEARANCECOMMUNAL / GROUP HOMES, COMMUNITIESNEW RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES, PRACTICESLIBERAL USE OF DRUGS (MARIJUANA, LSD, ETC.)NEW MUSIC STYLES: “ACID” ROCK, “HEAVY METAL”, ETC.“DO YOUR OWN THING, MAN”

“Tune in, Turn on, Drop Out”

“Dr.” Timothy Leary & followers

THE COUNTERCULTUREWHERE IS THE MOVEMENT CENTERED?

SAN FRANCISCO: HAIGHT-ASHBURYBERKELEY, CA: U of. CANYC: GREENWICH VILLAGE***CA. IS “HIPPIE CENTRAL” BECAUSE CA. STATE LAW DIDN’T OUTLAW HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS UNTIL ’66

THE MOVEMENT DECLINES: QUIZ: WHY DID THE COUNTERCULTURE MOVEMENT EVENTUALLY DECLINE?

A. BECAUSE IT WAS A JOKEB. DRUGS FRY YOUR BRAINC. THEY NEVER HAD A CLUE TO BEGIN WITHD. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?E. ALL OF THE ABOVE

ANY OTHER REASONS IT FAILED?UNREALISTIC GOALSDRUG CULTURE BECAME VERY VIOLENTTHE NOVELTY WORE OFF – REALITY SET IN

YEAH, MAN!

ANY QUESTIONS?

HIPPIES

YOUNG HIPPIES OLD HIPPIES

GUESS WHO?

FAMOUS COUNTERCULTURE EVENTS

1967: THE SUMMER OF LOVE THE BEATLES RELEASE ALBUM SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND

1969: AUGUST:

WOOSTOCKMANSON FAMILY COMMIT TATE-LaBIANCA MURDERS

DECEMBER: ALTAMONT CONCERT

1970: JIMI HENDRIX ODsJANIS JOPLIN DIES

1971: The BEATLES BREAK-UP

WOODSTOCK, 1969

ROLLING STONES ALTAMONT CONCERT, 1969

JIM MORRISON

JANIS JOPLIN

THE GRATEFUL DEAD

GRATEFUL DEAD IMAGERY

COUNTERCULTURE TERMS & LINGO

MAN: Basically refers to anybody or anything. Usually unnecessary to completing a sentence or thought in grammatically correct form, BUT IT DEMONSTRATED THAT YOU WERE COOL, HIP, OR NOT A “SQUARE”.THE MAN: Any group, entity, or institution that was viewed by youth as oppressive or potentially oppressive. This categorization could, and often did, encompass anybody over 35-40 yrs. Old. Usual targets in this categorization were:

The U.S. GovernmentThe U.S. MilitaryBig BusinessesMainstream religious institutionsAnybody who was successful, except for rock stars/musicians, actors, artists, poets, novelists, or philosophers, because they weren’t “corrupt”…Man!

WAVY GRAVY

COUNTERCULTURE TERMS & LINGO

PAD: Place of residence, domicile, etc.CRIB: Place or residence, domicile, etc.BREAD: MoneyDOUGH: MoneyCOOL: Hip, alluring in a confident wayRIGHTEOUS: Meaningful, of great importance, and probably cool as wellHEAVY: Of deep meaning requiring great insight and thought (or maybe just a lot of drug use), probably righteous, and probably cool as wellDEEP: Heavy

COUNTERCULTURE TERMS & LINGO

SMACK: HeroinHORSE: HeroinDOPE: Heroin or MarijuanaUPPERS: AmphetaminesDOWNERS: BarbituatesACID: LSDANGEL DUST: PCPBLOW: Cocaine (More of a 1970’s phenomenon)

COUNTERCULTURE TERMS & LINGO

THE MACHINE: Same as “The Man”

THE FUZZ: The police or any other law enforcement agency

PIGS: Same as “The Fuzz”

CHARLES MANSON

MANSON FAMILY GIRLS

ACTRESS

SHARON TATE

COUNTERCULTURE, PT.I QUIZ

1. In the early 1960’s, the beatniks began moving into what district of San Francisco?2. __ authored One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?3. True / False: Hippie communes only existed on the U.S. West Coast.4. Which drug was more lucrative to trade / sell: Marijuana or Heroin?5. True / False: Americans who used marijuana tended to come from lower-income families.