Chapter 31: i (section 3)

Culture and Counterculture

1. Members or participants

Members of the counterculture were known as hippies. Hippies wore ragged jeans, tie-dyed T-shirts, military garments, love beads, and Native American ornaments. Most of the memebers were youths who left school, work, or their home. This era was marked by rock 'n' roll, crazy clothing, sexual license, and illegal drugs.

2. Beliefs about American society

Hippies shared many of the same beliefs and felt that American society and its materialism, technologies, and war had grown hollow. The main idea of this group was to maintain peace and harmony. 

3. Goals for society and for themselves

The goals for society and for themselves that the hippies had in mind were to make the community and country of America full of peace, love, and harmony.

4. Movement center

5. Attitudes and activities

For a while the countercultures were all about peace and harmony but then gradually gave way to violence and disillusionment. People began to use a lot of drugs and became homeless, therefore many people started living on the streets.

6. Violent episodes

Once drugs came into every day use many people began to fall apart. One by one people would become addicted to drugs and they began to have mental breakdowns. This behavior led to a lot of violence, which was ironic to the countercultures goals to create peace, love, and harmony.

7. Impact on art and fashion

This time period had an impact on art and fashion because the rise of pop art flourished the community. Pop art was categorized by bright, simple, commercial-looking images from everyday life.

8. Impact on music
During the 1960's the counterculture movement embraced rock 'n' roll. The music was an offshoot of African American rhythm and blues music. The most popular band that helped rock 'n' roll get its boost was the Beatles.  With new uprising music more than 400,000 people went to festivals, one specifically called "Woodstock Music and Art Fair". This festival represented the '60s movement of peace and love.

9. Impact on mainstream America

America's mainstream/attitudes changed during this time period. The thought of "do you own thing" came into factor soon led to the sexual revolution (which was more casual and permissive sexual behaviors). Mass culture, including TV, books, magazines, and movies began to address subjects that one had been prohibited.