Who are Hippies?

-New generation of young Americans

-New music, clothing, ways of life

-Kids started blaming their parents for the mess we were in

-Cold War

-Civil Rights problems

-Vietnam

Counterculture Events

-People were frustrated with doing things “the way their parents did them”

-College, jobs

-Students went on strike

-College courses “out of touch”

-Hippies started rejecting everything of past generations

-Started using profanity, dressing provocatively, using drugs, nudity, permissive sexual behavior

-Shock the older generations

-Drug addiction increased, STDs increased

-Some tried to “get in touch” with nature

-Pop art (Andy Worhol)

-Artists started using “everyday” objects in their works

-Make it more appealing to the public

-Women’s Movement

-The Feminine Mystique (book) was the spark

-Said women were not content staying at home

-National Organization for Women (NOW)

-Lobbies for women’s rights

-Music

-Beatles, Rolling Stones

-Several black musicians came up

-Electric guitars, the amp

-Woodstock (August 1969)

-300,000 young Americans attended it

-Highlight of Hippie movement

-Peace, love, sex, drugs, and music