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    The counterculture movement of the 1960s rebelled against traditional social and cultural values promoted by the older generation. Young people protested the Vietnam War and embraced new styles of dress, music and expanded views of sex and drugs. The counterculture challenged social norms but also had positive impacts like increased social equality and negative impacts like rising drug addiction. Ultimately, the shallowness and self-centeredness of the movement led to its decline in the late 1960s and 1970s.

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    Counterculture

    Chapter 21 Section 1

    What was the counterculture, and what


    impact did it have on American society?

    In the 1960s, youths rebelled


    against long-standing customs in
    dress, music, and personal
    behavior.
    The counterculture both
    challenged traditional values and
    unleashed a movement to reassert
    basic values.

    Counterculture
    Parents Generation

    Baby-Boom Generation

    Three-piece suit
    Crew cut
    Monogamous
    relationships
    Alcohol as drug of
    choice

    Jeans and tie-dyed


    shirt
    Long hair
    Free love
    Illegal drugs were
    common

    In the 1960s,
    many young
    people joined the
    counterculture
    movement,
    rebelling against
    their parents
    values and
    traditions.

    Counterculture challenged
    traditional social patterns of
    American life.

    The counterculture arose from several


    influences.

    the Beat
    movement
    of the
    1950s,
    which
    rejected
    materialism

    the civil rights


    movement,
    prompted
    people to
    question
    traditional
    boundaries

    the Vietnam
    antiwar
    movement,
    which
    introduced the
    idea of social
    and political
    protest

    Four main elements defined the


    counterculture.

    Rock-and-roll
    music

    The sexual
    revolution

    A belief that
    drugs could
    free the mind

    An interest in
    spirituality

    Rock-and-roll music and folk music became forces


    for social and cultural change.

    The Beatles, a British


    rock group, changed the
    look and lifestyles of the
    baby boomer generation.
    Folk singers such as Bob
    Dylan wrote protest
    songs to highlight the civil
    rights and peace
    movements.

    Music
    Beatles, Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin,
    The Doors, Jimi Hendrix
    Woodstock (1969) Bethel, NY
    Coming together of the counterculture
    300,000 people gather for days for
    concert
    Trouble free

    Music
    Altamont (1969) Speedway in CA
    Rolling Stones hire Hells Angels
    (notorious biker gang) as security
    Battered anyone who annoyed them
    Man beaten to death for
    running onto stage

    The counterculture rejected many traditional


    restrictions on behavior.
    The

    sexual revolution called for the


    separation of sex from traditional family
    life.

    Some

    people lived together in communes:

    small communities of hippies who shared


    common interests and resources.
    Many

    hippies believed that drugs could

    Hippies men & women who selfconsciously rejected conventional


    norms.
    Women mini skirts, loose dresses
    Men long hair & beards

    Sexual Revolution
    Separate sex from family life
    More open discussions of sexual
    subjects
    Lived together in communes
    Avoided getting married

    Drugs
    Psychedelic drugs drugs that cause
    the brain to behave abnormally
    An escape from reality
    Produced hallucinations

    Timothy Leary
    Created LSD used students at
    Harvard for experiments
    Tune in, turn on, drop out

    Overdoses and deaths increase

    Many

    Members of
    the
    counterculture
    also explored
    different
    avenues of
    spirituality.

    hippies
    sought religious
    experiences outside
    Judeo-Christian
    traditions.

    They

    explored
    Eastern religions,
    such as Buddhism,
    or sought harmony
    with nature.

    Differences in values created a generation


    gap between young people and their parents.
    The baby boomer
    generation distrusted
    tradition and authority.
    In the mid-1960s, more
    than a third of the U.S.
    population was under 17.
    They became a force for
    social change.

    The counterculture had some positive


    effects on American society.
    Many

    young people rejected


    materialism.

    Groups

    such as women and the


    physically challenged sought
    equality.

    Colleges

    and universities began to


    offer multicultural programs of study.

    The negative aspects of the countercultural


    movement brought about its end.

    Drug

    addiction and overdose deaths

    rose.
    Violence

    at a Rolling Stones concert


    contradicted the hippies message of
    peace and love.

    Many

    people believed the


    counterculture had become shallow
    and self-centered.

    Effects of Counterculture
    Many people did not like the changes
    the counterculture stood for (sex,
    drugs, nudity)
    Actions seemed childish
    Most hippies came from comfortable
    middle class families they returned to
    this lifestyle after the counterculture fell
    apart
    Became part of the capitalist system they
    once protested

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