counterculture

Examples of counterculture in the following topics:

• Counterculture

  • The American Counterculture refers to the period between 1964-1972 when the norms of the 1950s were largely rejected by youth.
  • Hippies became the largest countercultural group in the United States.
  • The counterculture movement divided the country.
  • Ultimately, the counterculture collapsed on its own around 1973.
  • The peace sign became a major symbol of the counterculture of the 1960s.

• Art and Music

  • Forms of art and music in the 1960s, ranging from rock and roll to psychedelic art, reflected the characteristics of the counterculture movement.
  • Meanwhile in the United States, bands that exemplified the counterculture were becoming mainstream commercial successes.
  • The 1960s was an era of rock festivals, which played an important role in spreading the counterculture across America.
  • As with film, press, and music, art in the 1960s responded to the new counterculture, primarily in pop art and psychedelic art.
  • The crowd and stage at Woodstock, one of the most important music festivals of the 1960s counterculture.

• Youth Culture and Delinquency

  • Youth culture during the 1960s counterculture was characterized by the Summer of Love and the casual use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs.
  • The Summer of Love became a defining moment in the 1960s as the hippie counterculture movement came into public awareness.
  • This aspect of the counterculture rejected active political engagement with the mainstream; following the dictate of a Harvard LSD proponent, Dr.
  • Experimentation with LSD, Peyote, psilocybin mushrooms, MDA, marijuana, and other psychedelic drugs became a major component of 1960s counterculture, influencing philosophy, art, music, and styles of dress.
  • Examine the role of drug use in the counterculture of the 1960s

• Theatre and Novels

  • The counterculture of the 1960s gave rise to new forms of media such as underground newspapers, literature, theater, and cinema.
  • In the U.S., the term "underground newspaper" generally refers to an independent newspaper focusing on unpopular themes or counterculture issues.
  • "Hair" is often said to be a product of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the 1960s.
  • Like newspapers, literature, and theatre, the cinema of the time also reflected the attributes of the counterculture.
  • Examine the expression of countercultural values in media such as newspapers and theater

• Gay and Lesbian Rights

  • Combined with the sexual revolution and the feminist movement of the 1960s, the counterculture helped establish a climate that fostered the struggle for gay and lesbian rights.
  • With a call for gay men and women to “come out”—a consciousness-raising campaign that shared many principles with the counterculture—gay and lesbian communities moved from the urban underground into the political sphere.

• The Beats

  • The 1950s Beat movement beliefs and ideologies metamorphosed into the counterculture of the 1960s, accompanied by a shift in terminology from beatnik to hippie.

• The Religious Right

  • In the 1960 presidential election, the alienation of Southern Democrats from the Democratic Party, as well as the fear of social disintegration provoked by the counterculture and social movements of the 60s, contributed to the rise of the Right.

• The Nixon Administration

  • Nixon was popular among voters in the South, Southwest, and northern suburbs as he appealed to their anxieties about civil rights, women’s rights, antiwar protests, and the counterculture taking place around them.

• Demographic Shifts

  • Vestigial changes from the countercultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s were apparent throughout the 1990s.

• Conclusion: Change in the 1960s

  • American Indians, gays and lesbians, and women organized to change discriminatory laws and pursue government support for their rights; others, disenchanted with the status quo, distanced themselves from white, middle-class America by forming their own countercultures centered on a desire for peace, the rejection of material goods and traditional morality, concern for the environment, and drug use in pursuit of spiritual revelations.