1960S COUNTERCULTURE

1960s Counterculture

Hippies Who?

Children of the “Baby Boom” Large Student population of the 1960s

Trends Bohemian lifestyle Tye-dye, long hair Illegal drug use (marijuana and LSD) Meditation and Yoga rock and folk music used as a form of expression

for radical ideas Challenge authority, environmentalism, gender roles,

middle class society values

Political Music Country Joe and the Fish

“I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag” How does this song’s lyrics differ from others

we’ve studied in our previous unit (Ballad of the Green Berets)?

Jimi Hendrix Unconventional rocker

Electric Guitar Europe Woodstock

American Soldier 1961 Discharged after 1 Year

Woodstock

4 Day communal musical Festival drawing 500,000

Two Views: Generosity, peace, great music, liberation Self-indulgence, noise, promiscuity, illegal drug

use Performers:

Country Joe McDonald, Ravi Shankar, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Who, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Jimi Hendrix

Woodstock with Narration

Woodstock 1969

Aquarius Astrological Significance:

The planet Uranus rules the sign Aquarius Pluto, ruler of the masses, comes of age bringing

radical change Popular Culture:

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (1968)

Heyday of hippie and New Age movement

Hair: The American TribalLove-Rock Musical