The music industry was a key player, of course, setting up labels specifically to host hippy musicians, such as Dandelion and Harvest, both, it should be noted, part of larger mainstream corporations. And then there were the drugs.
It is hard to imagine hippy culture without marijuana and LSD. Each, in their different ways, gave form to the lifestyle and its associated attitudes. Another, legal drug was also vitally important to hippy culture: the contraception pill.
The expansion of higher education was crucial to providing people willing and able to become hippies, to act as an audience to its stars, and to become the entrepreneurs for the new art and culture. While students remained a very small proportion of their age group, they were heavily over represented among hippies. The police and the justice system also contributed to the rise of hippies. Inbetween, they arrested and imprisoned briefly Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on drug offences.
Discernible through all this was a unifying philosophy, or attitude. The experimentalism, whether in drugs or art or fashion, was symptomatic of a rejection of conventional wisdom. Their espousal of love and peace was a rejection of Cold War diplomacy and Mutually Assured Destruction. But for all the apparent change, much remained the same.
And many of those who articulated the hippy dream of self-sufficiency went on to make a fortune from it. This essay was curated by The Subcultures Network , which was formed in to facilitate research on youth cultures and social change, and commissioned as part of the National Lottery Heritage Funded project to build the online Museum of Youth Culture.
Although the Beat Generation was mostly a literary movement, it has been long studied as a movement that heavily influenced the musically charged hippie movement. Kesey has often been seen as the major link between the late Beat Movement and the early hippies of the s.
Kesey and The Merry Pranksters were a large community of like-minded people in California and Oregon who took epic road trips and traveled in a brightly colored school bus while ingesting large amounts of LSD, which was legal until The group traveled the nation, housed famous parties, gave out large quantities of LSD and helped define the long hair and bizarre fashion that came to symbolize the American hippie.
The Vietnam War was a near year conflict of massive proportions which helped propel the hippie movement into mainstream American consciousness. In the mids, the United States Government started a huge military surge wherein large qualities of American troops were sent to Vietnam to destabilize and destroy the communist North Vietnamese government, which was supported by the Soviet Union and China.
Originally, the war was somewhat popular, but the seemingly never-ending conflict strained the American populace who were getting more and more frustrated with the tremendous loss of life and crazed politics of the war. The American hippie became famous for their influence in the widespread Vietnam protests and helped to define their role in the tumultuous s.
During the famous summer, over , people convened and relocated to the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco. The San Francisco summer is often remembered best because it was the cultural center of the hippie movement where free love, drug use and communal living became the norm.
For many hippies and children of the s, the original Woodstock Festival in was the culmination of years of experimentation and changing social practices.
The festival, which was originally planned as being three days long, drew people from all over the world and was a major point of controversy as the festival was almost shut down. We and our partners use cookies to better understand your needs, improve performance and provide you with personalised content and advertisements. To allow us to provide a better and more tailored experience please click "OK".
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