Hippie Movement

Rise of the Counterculture

• Beat movement of the 1950’s

• Freedom from materialism

Counterculture

• Questioning the world around you

• Not giving into traditional values

Counterculture

• Peace and love

• Social experiment

Counterculture

• Experimented

• Drugs

• Relationships

• Music

Counterculture

• Generation

• Lack of communication between generations

• Different view of the world

Music

• Expression

• Questioning the government

• Protest songs

Counterculture

• Sexual Revolution-

• Making decisions about your own body

• Open discussion

Counterculture

• Communes-

• Challenged traditional living

• Group living together- sharing of resources

Haight-Ashbury

• Neighborhood in San Francisco

• Hippies move to this area in 1967

• Height of the counterculture

Drugs

• Timothy Leary-

• “Tune in, turn on” to drugs

• Drugs freed the mind

Religion/ Spirituality

• Enlightenment

• Late 60’s/ early 70’s live with nature

Decline

• By the end of the 60’s

• Utopia- unrealistic

• Went back into the mainstream