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Culture & Counterculture
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1950s Culture
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Baby Boom
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Suburbs: Little Boxes
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The Affluent Society Post-WWII economic boom Private sector wealth
Public sector poverty
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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Search for purpose in a world dominated by business Materialism vs. meaning
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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!”
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Catcher in the Rye Adolescent angst, alienation, sexuality
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The Beats Allen Ginsberg
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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…
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“Rebel Without a Cause”
James Dean “Rebel Without a Cause”
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Berry & Presley “Johnny B. Goode” “Jailhouse Rock”
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British Invasion The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, 1964 Other bands
Rolling Stones The Who The Yardbirds
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“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”
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Jimi Hendrix Revolutionized American rock music Woodstock, 1969
“Star Spangled Banner/Purple Haze”
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Visual Arts
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Andy Warhol & Roy Lichtenstein
Pop Art Andy Warhol & Roy Lichtenstein
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Andy Warhol
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Andy Warhol
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Roy Lichtenstein
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Roy Lichtenstein
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Op Art
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Op Art
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Psychedelic Art
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Hippie Culture
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“Never Trust Anyone Over Thirty”
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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.”
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Haight-Ashbury
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LSD & Marijuana
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Woodstock, 1969
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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
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Woodstock, 1969
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Abbie Hoffman
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Altamont Concert “Woodstock of the West Coast,” 1969
Murder by Hell’s Angels while Rolling Stones performed
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Charles Manson “Manson Family” cult
Serial murders by “flower children”
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Nixon Presidency “Law and Order” “Silent Majority”
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New Left
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New Left
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Vietnam War
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Anti-War Protests
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Students for a Democratic Society
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Weather Underground
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