Word Association – what comes to your mind?

A SHIFT IN AMERICA 1950’s- 1960’s

1950’S AMERICATypical suburban housewife image

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ARINE

ADVERTISEM

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Societies’ Corruption by Capitalism and

Materialism

- Rejection

THE 1960’sTHE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’

THE NEW COUNTERCULTURE

America’s Institutions Targets of Social Critique – Morally Bankrupt Society

Individual Had No Chance – Had to Escape

POLITICAL

PROTEST

Political Protest - Free Speech

Free Love

Counterculture Slogan“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measure or far away”

Henry David Thoreau

START OF THE MOVEMENT

America- Alan Ginsberg

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956. I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? … When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks? America after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world. Your machinery is too much for me. You made me want to be a saint. …

I'm addressing you. Are you going to let our emotional life be run by Time Magazine? I'm obsessed by Time Magazine. I read it every week. Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore. I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library. It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me. It occurs to me that I am America. I am talking to myself again. …

Beat Poets On the Road

FOLK TO REVOLUTION

How many roads must a man walk downBefore you call him a man? Yes, n how many seas must a white dove sailBefore she sleeps in the sand? Yes, n how many times must the cannon balls flyBefore theyre forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,The answer is blowin in the wind.

How many times must a man look upBefore he can see the sky? Yes, n how many ears must one man haveBefore he can hear people cry? Yes, n how many deaths will it take till he knowsThat too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,The answer is blowin in the wind.

How many years can a mountain existBefore its washed to the sea? Yes, n how many years can some people existBefore theyre allowed to be free? Yes, n how many times can a man turn his head,Pretending he just doesnt see? The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind,The answer is blowin in the wind.

Bob Dylan

THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS ARE WRITTEN ON THE SUBWAY WALLS - SOUND OF SILENCE SIMON AND GARFUNKEL

…The old get oldAnd the young get strongerMay take a weekAnd it may take longerThey got the gunsBut we got the numbersGonna win, yeahWere takin overCome on! …

Five to One

The Doors

IT JUST GOT SUFFOCATED. LIKE WOODSTOCK – THAT WASN’T ANYTHING. IT WAS JUST A WHOLE NEW MARKET FOR T-DYED T-SHIRTS.

BOB DYLAN 1984