...record. The taste of the American listeners expanded from the folksinger, doo-wop and saxophone sounds of the 1950s to the Motown sound, folk rock and the Invasion led by The Beatles in 1964. The Los Angeles and San Francisco Sound began in this period with many popular bands coming out of LA and the Haight-Ashbury district, well known for its hippie culture. The rise of the counterculture movement, particularly among the youth, created a market for rock, soul, pop, reggae and blues music. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s#Music Clothing/Fashion: Mary Quant invented the mini-skirt which became one of the most popular rages in the late 1960s. Women's mainstream hairstyles ranged from beehive hairdos, the bird's nest hairstyle, and the chignon hairstyle in the early part of the decade, to very short styles popularized by Twiggy and Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby towards the latter half of the decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s#Fashion The Beatles exerted an enormous influence on young men's fashions and hairstyles in the 1960s which included most notably the mop-top haircut, the Beatle boots and the Nehru jacket. The hippie movement late in the decade also had a strong influence on clothing styles, including bell-bottom jeans, tie-dye and batik fabrics, as well as paisley prints https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s#Fashion In addition to wearing their hair longer, men began to adopt bright, vivacious colors; gregarious paisley, floral and polka dot prints;...
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...It was billed as “the Summer of Love,” a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism that drew some 75,000 young people to the San Francisco streets in 1967. Who were the true movers behind the Haight-Ashbury happening that turned America on to a whole new age? In a 25-square-block area of San Francisco, in the summer of 1967, an ecstatic, Dionysian mini-world sprang up like a mushroom, dividing American culture into a Before and After unparalleled since World War II. If you were between 15 and 30 that year, it was almost impossible to resist the lure of that transcendent, peer-driven season of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism. It was billed as the Summer of Love, and its creators did not employ a single publicist or craft a media plan. Yet the phenomenon washed over America like a tidal wave, erasing the last dregs of the martini-sipping Mad Men era and ushering in a series of liberations and awakenings that irreversibly changed our way of life. The Summer of Love also thrust a new kind of music—acid rock—across the airwaves, nearly put barbers out of business, traded clothes for costumes, turned psychedelic drugs into sacred door keys, and revived the outdoor gatherings of the Messianic Age, making everyone an acolyte anda priest. It turned sex with strangers into a mode of generosity, made “uptight” an epithet on a par with “racist,” refashioned the notion of earnest Peace Corps idealism into a bacchanalian rhapsody, and set that favorite American adjective, “free,” on a...
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...Introduction 1. The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. 2. The word 'hippie' came 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. 3. The origins of the terms hip and hep are uncertain, though by the 1940s both had become part of African American jive slang and meant "sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date". 4. The Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies inherited the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation. 5. Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and some used drugs such as cannabis, LSD, and magic mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness. 6. Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. 7. Since the 1960s, many aspects of hippie culture have been assimilated by mainstream society. 8. The religious and cultural diversity espoused by the hippies has gained widespread acceptance, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual concepts have reached a larger audience. 9. The hippie legacy can be observed in contemporary culture in myriad forms, including health food, music festivals, contemporary sexual mores, and even the cyberspace revolution. Origin 1. A July 1967 Time...
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...bravely to expel Nazi Germany from the world and witnessed an attack on their own nation. They were a nation of go-getters that believed in the American Dream and worked to fulfill it. The children of this noble and brave generation found themselves questioning the world they lived in and the powers that held control over them. This new, counter-culture generation was later coined the Hippie Generation. Through the Celebration of the Lizard, Jim Morrison reinvents the idea of freedom, excess, and the search for individual identity at a time where the counter-culture movement was gaining massive popularity. This new culture, created out of America’s individuality, later went on to become the biggest and most widespread movement that preached the importance of the individual and expelled any belief in capitalism. “The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom..” was a quote taken from William Blake, an English poet, that Jim Morrison held close to him. This quote is more than a line from a poem but a motto for a generation that strayed away from contemporary thought and forged a path that was their own in each and every way. The Hippie Generation grew out of an already established non-conformist movement known as the Beat Generation, or Beatniks. The Beatniks were a collection of authors living in New York city best known for writing against anything conformist. Many were openly homosexual, something absolutely absurd at that time, and experimented with drugs quite often. These...
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...The growth and expansion of America’s rich culture during the 1960s created the initial spark of the social revolution which stretched amongst surrounding countries including Australia, further causing a significant impact to the traditional Australian society. The Hippie Movement emerged within the young Americans dating back to the Baby Boom generation during the mid 1960s and were considered to be highly outspoken and candid when communicating their personal beliefs and opinions, values and controversial perspectives of advocating a nonviolent ethic which contradicted the dominant mainstream culture. This movement was predominantly provoked after the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963 as the rise of conspiracy theories...
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...Television really became the new fashion awareness of the 60’s and it allowed viewers to be in touch to the here and now. Another impact of fashion during the 60’s was music. Many popular genres had to do with the popular trends that came out during this year, like Mod and the Hippie look. Mod fashion came from the youth subculture that became popular in Great Britain. Mods were all about fashion. It was the first cultural trend to highlight special fashion for men. Men became more accustomed in knowing about what was currently trending during this time. Mod fashion was linked to designers such as Mary Quant. Mary Quant was known for making the mini skirt popular which was something you had to have for a Mod woman. The Mod trend started in London. The look did not have specific elements, but you would see a lot of bright, bold patterns and colors, go-go boots, jackets for men, and short skirts and hairstyles for women. The style became trendier when it moved to the US. Although there were many that loved the Mod trend...
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...When one thinks of the 1960’s and 70’s, more commonly known as the Hippie Movement, one may first think of drugs and it’s impact. In 1971, the prime time for these hardcore drugs, President Richard Nixon declared a War on Drugs, where he did everything in his power to stop drug possession and consumption. Almost fifty years later, Nixon’s declaration still presents an issue that is affecting many. Millennials specifically have been dealing with great losses to the drug industry, where kids are going out every weekend to smoke some pot and drink alcohol. One girl, Jennee Martinez, has dealt with large loss to the drug world and wrote an article on the topic. She intends to educates her audience about these losses by asserting appeals to ethos...
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...“Summer of Love” Film Paper The documentary film Summer of Love is about the year of 1967 when the children from the baby boom generation had grown up and were now in their college years, but instead of going to school chose instead to change the world. These young people had grown up experiencing the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, men constantly being drafted into the Vietnam War which was killing more than one hundred soldiers per week, and the civil rights struggles. There continued to be a deep anxiety about communism taking over the United States and the threat of atomic weapon. A part of that generation came to be known as “hippies,” who thought that they could bring change to the world by spreading peace and love. The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco, California was a small and low-income area for modern families to live, until January 14, 1967 when there was a “coming together” and the Haight-Ashbury district became the home of modern jazz, hippies, communal living, and turning to drugs as a new way of living. Music began to change, LSD and acid became a way of life, food was served free, furniture and clothes were being distributed at no cost to people, and money became the root of all evil. They thought they could make the world into what they wanted by acting it out, but the hippies were extremely unwelcomed by the long-time residents. When spring break came around people, especially kids, from all over the country were visiting Haight-Ashbury...
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...Hair and Rent are two well-known musicals that perfectly display the power of art in the world. Rent is a rock musical that tells the story about a group of poor, young artists and musicians who are struggling to survive and make it in New York’s Lower East Side during the AIDS epidemic. Hair is another rock musical, but this musical deals with the hippie counter-culture and the sexual revolution of the 1960s. In the musical Hair, the setting also takes place in New York, but the plot in Hair differs a little from the storyline in the Rent. Instead of struggling to survive as musicians, the people in Hair are fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War. Each character in the musicals Hair and Rent have to deal with the everyday issues of their time while still trying to deal with their own individual dilemmas. In the musical Rent, the people tend to live a bohemian lifestyle. The American College Dictionary defines the term bohemian as "a person with artistic or intellectual tendencies, who lives and acts with no regard for conventional rules of behavior." The characters in Rent are each trying to reach their dreams of making it in show business, but they have to overcome many obstacles such as living expenses, the AIDS epidemic, love, sexuality, drugs, friendship, and much more. One character, Mimi Marquez, is a club dancer, and that is how she pays for her living. Many people of that time would be club dancers because that was a quick way of earning money. Due to the...
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...Reflection paper on the Documentary Berkeley in the sixties uring class we were shown the film Berkeley in the sixties directed by Mark Kitchell. Released in New York in September 26th 1990, the film was a documentary showcasing the free speech movement starting with the House Un-American Activities Committee that was taking place in San Francisco Hall in 1960. The documentary would highlight the many demonstrations and protests that occurred at or around the Campus of the University of California, Berkeley in the sixties. Regarded by many as the center of political activism, it was here at the heart of this campus where we would see the barbaric enforcement and overreaction to the protests/demonstrations by the university’s leadership and local police that had taken place at Berkeley. Started from a group of political radicals on the Berkeley Campus, SLATE would Grow into one of the first groups to proactively advocate for free speech, sometime using protests and sit-ins as weapons against injustices. What made SLATE so appearing was its bi-partisan stand that it was controlled by no individual campaign party. That the members were from all different political parties focusing on one common goal. In the First 20 minutes of the Film in which Martin Luther King was highlighted as a speaker. He would state some of the uphill battles that were similarity faced by the students on campus. I was so captivated by this speech I had to look for it on Social media...
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...Extra Credit Essay : Countercultural Bohemians of the Sixties A social phenomenon took place in the summer of 1967 on the junction of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco. Rebellion against the establishment of the government were seen as negative and needed a change. Caught up in the rising frustration circling around America’s increased involvement in Vietnam, racism was still alive in many urban areas, and the pressure to conform; a growing number of the younger generation rejected the American way of life. These were known as hippies. The resulting movement, termed the counterculture, embraced an alternative lifestyle characterized by long hair, brightly colored clothes, communal living, free sex, and rampant drug use. Distrustful of the American government and what they perceived as an increasingly materialistic society, hippies and other members of the counterculture attracted a great amount of media attention during the 1960s. Throughout the decade many counterculture events increased the movement’s notoriety, but one in particular, the Summer of Love. This gathering of young people is often considered to have been a social experiment because of all the alternative lifestyles, which became more common and accepted such as gender equality, communal living and free love. This was the time to gain awareness of all the hatred toward people who were different and weren’t socially accepted. It was to eliminate barriers toward the socialization between everyone. The hippies...
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...so in a manner that summarizes how particular events helped define those years. People will often have says for each decade such as the Roaring’ Twenties, the GI Generation for the forties, and the 60’s may just have an endless list. One year in the 60’s though stood out from the rest; 1968 was quite possibly one of the most influential years in American History. A counter-culture tore through classic American Traditions, a controversial war segregated the population, protests, assassinations, and riots were front page news every couple of months. These were times of trouble yet growth in the American culture, and we are still feeling the effects of them today. 1968 With Tom Brokaw takes the viewer into the past by compiling footage and interviews with those who lived through the key events of 1968. Brokaw speaks with those who were first pioneers of the counter culture, those close friends and associates of both Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy (both assassinated), musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, Arlo Guthrie, Michelle Phillips who experienced how influential music was to the counter culture, police and protestors alike who prevented and participated in riots, and the list continues. Each of these interviews gives us, the viewer, a better understanding of chaotic of a decade the 60’s were, and how many up and downs there were within the single year of 1968. Focusing specifically on the music and events that shaped the music of the 60’s, it’s funny to actually...
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...If you think the '60s psychedelic counterculture (aka hippie) died out, wait till you meet this fella. We're not talking about some pretentious multicolored-volkswagen van driver wearing a tie dye t-shirt and going on and on about why women shouldn't wear bras and shave. Ramsey is simply in harmony with the surrounding nature and God's creations, animals more than humans, and embraces life as it flows by. His one story modern brick house, although set up in the middle of a cemented neighbourhood is hidden by a large backyard and trees whose names I don't know. A very calm – maybe too calm for an urban like myself¬¬– residence that transmits its tranquillity as you step in. Perfect! Mission accomplished: That's what Ramsey aimed for when he decided to convert his crashing place into a daylight home-business; he wanted his clients to be as relaxed and chilled as they can be while they undergo a two and a half hour session of indulgence and pampering. So what exactly does Ramsey do? Ramsey is a professional dog groomer. Impressive? Jaw dropping? Yikey spikey? He had heard it all. But this good ol’ dog whisperer (the name dog owners came up with after seeing how he communicates with ferocious untamed pet- beast) didn't always do that for a living. His gypsy genes incited him to hit the French territories where he took a diploma in computer science. Spending 2 years working behind a desk he discovered his rather selective claustrophobia condition- IT guy basically got sick and tired...
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...Case Example Glastonbury This case has been based on an entertainment area where many students will feel comfortable in having some knowledge. Yet, they are unlikely to have considered the strategic implications that pervade such an area. Below, these notes address the specific questions highlighted in the case example. However, it is worth considering some interesting features of the case that offer opportunities for wider discussion. First, note that this case is driven by cultural events that, unlike typical consumer goods, have a short shelf life and ought to be broadly seen as services. Secondly, the case focuses on more recent activity in this market but highlights some of the history of the event. Naturally, the strategic environment varies across the period and students may find this change across time slightly distracting. Thirdly, within this case lie the sustainability issues that will challenge managers going forward. In other words, whilst some seek profit, others seek to conserve the resources of the planet or be fair to its people. All three of these issues are areas that might be explored with students as a pointer to key areas for their own strategic management, that is, increasing importance of services, rapidly changing environments and sustainable development. Strategy Statement Consideration of Section 1.2.3 reveals the following points of discussion: In terms of the goals of Glastonbury, these are clearly stated at the outset in the...
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...Hippies: How & why did it start? Between 1896 and 1908, a German youth movement arose as a countercultural reaction to the organized social and cultural clubs that centered around German folk music. Known as Der Wandervogel ("migratory bird"), the movement opposed the formality of traditional German clubs, instead emphasizing amateur music and singing, creative dress, and communal outings involving hiking and camping.[15] Inspired by the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Goethe, Hermann Hesse, and Eduard Baltzer, Wandervogel attracted thousands of young Germans who rejected the rapid trend toward urbanization and yearned for the pagan, back-to-nature spiritual life of their ancestors.[16] During the first several decades of the 20th century, Germans settled around the United States, bringing the values of the Wandervogel with them. Some opened the first health food stores, and many moved to Southern California where they could practice an alternative lifestyle in a warm climate. Over time, young Americans adopted the beliefs and practices of the new immigrants. One group, called the "Nature Boys", took to the California desert and raised organic food, espousing a back-to-nature lifestyle like the Wandervogel.[17] Songwriter Eden Ahbez wrote a hit song called Nature Boy inspired by Robert Bootzin (Gypsy Boots), who helped popularize health-consciousness, yoga, and organic food in the United States Music: Hippies use music to express themselves emotionally, spiritually...
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