Culture & Counterculture

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Culture & Counterculture

1950s Culture

Baby Boom

Suburbs: Little Boxes

The Affluent Society Post-WWII economic boom Private sector wealth Public sector poverty

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Search for purpose in a world dominated by business Materialism vs. meaning

Death of a Salesman Play by Arthur Miller Lack of fulfillment from materialistic life “You can’t eat the orange and throw away the peel. A man is not a piece of fruit!”

Catcher in the Rye Adolescent angst, alienation, sexuality

The Beats Allen Ginsberg

Howl I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz…

“Rebel Without a Cause” James Dean “Rebel Without a Cause”

Berry & Presley “Johnny B. Goode” “Jailhouse Rock”

British Invasion The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, 1964 Other bands Rolling Stones The Who The Yardbirds

“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

Jimi Hendrix Revolutionized American rock music Woodstock, 1969 “Star Spangled Banner/Purple Haze”

Visual Arts

Andy Warhol & Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art Andy Warhol & Roy Lichtenstein

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Op Art

Op Art

Psychedelic Art

Hippie Culture

“Never Trust Anyone Over Thirty”

Haight-Ashbury Center of San Francisco’s hippie/drug/art culture (hippie = counterculture) Summer of Love, 1967 “If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair... If you're going to San Francisco, Summertime will be a love-in there.”

Haight-Ashbury

LSD & Marijuana

Woodstock, 1969

Creedence Clearwater Revival Swami Satchidananda Richie Havens Ravi Shankar Joan Baez Santana Grateful Dead Janis Joplin The Who Creedence Clearwater Revival Crosby, Stills & Nash Jimi Hendrix Jefferson Airplane

Woodstock, 1969

Abbie Hoffman

Altamont Concert “Woodstock of the West Coast,” 1969 Murder by Hell’s Angels while Rolling Stones performed

Charles Manson “Manson Family” cult Serial murders by “flower children”

Nixon Presidency “Law and Order” “Silent Majority”

New Left

New Left

Vietnam War

Anti-War Protests

Students for a Democratic Society

Weather Underground

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