POPULAR CULTURE OF THE 1960S

January 9, 2018 | Author: Anonymous | Category: Social Science, Sociology, Discrimination
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COUNTERCULTURE & POPULAR CULTURE OF THE 1960S

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

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

COUNTERCULTURE 

Hippies  

Middle class youth Dress • Jeans, tie-dyed shirts, sandals, beards, long hair



Lifestyle choices • Drugs  

Marijuana LSD (Hallucinogenic)

• Music • Communes 

Groups living together shaping responsibilities

• Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco) 

Focal point

COUNTERCULTURE 

Woodstock          

Aug. 15-18, 1969 Bethel, New York 500,000 people 32 music groups/artists Camped outside 30 min wait for water 90 min wait for restrooms 2 deaths 2 births Focal point of counterculture

POPULAR CULTURE  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

POPULAR CULTURE  Architecture 

Refinement of Modernism • St. Louis Arch-Eero Saarinen • Walter Gropius-Pan Am Building (Met Life)

 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

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

POPULAR CULTURE 

Music  

Rhythm & Blues (R & B) African Americans • • • •

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Supremes Aretha Franklin James Brown Jimi Hendrix

Folk Music Counterculture • Bob Dylan • Joan Baez • Peter, Paul & Mary

POPULAR CULTURE  Music 

Teenage influence • Beach Boys • Beatles • Righteous Brothers



Acid/psychedelic Rock • Influenced by drug use • Jefferson Airplane • Grateful Dead

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