1. THE COUNTERCULTURE
CHAPTER 31
SECTION 3

2. KEY TERMS
COUNTERCULTURE
HAIGHT-ASHBURY
THE BEATLES
WOODSTOCK

3. IMPORTANT DATES 1964: THE BEATLES TOUR THE U.S.
1967: THE BEATLES RELEASE SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND ALBUM
SUMMER, 1967: “THE SUMMER OF LOVE”
AUG., 1969:
WOODSTOCK CONCERT
THE MANSON FAMILY MURDERS

4. THE COUNTERCULTURE ORIGINS: WHO? WHERE? IDEAS? 1950’S BEATNIK MOVEMENT
THE 1960’s NEW LEFT MOVEMENT
WHO?
THE “HIPPIES”
MOSTLY WHITE, UPPER-MIDDLE & MIDDLE-CLASS COLLEGE-AGE YOUTHS
WHERE?
MAJOR CITIES IN N.E. & WEST COAST
EX.?
SAN FRANCISCO
NEW YORK
COLLEGE CAMPUSES IN SAME AREAS
IDEAS?
SAME AS THE NEW LEFT
WANTED MORE “FREEDOM” (!?) – WERE “NONCONFORMIST”
ANTI-WAR
ANTI-MATERIALISM

5. HIPPIES & HIPPIE BUS

6. THE COUNTERCULTURE BEGINNINGS: GOALS: DID THEY HAVE ANY? HOW?
WHEN? EARLY 1960’s
WHY?
DR. TIMOTHY LEARY, HARVARD UNIV.
“TUNE IN, TURN ON, DROP OUT”
ENCOURAGED L.S.D. USE
GOALS: DID THEY HAVE ANY?
CREATE A WORLD OF PEACE, LOVE, AND HARMONY
CALLED THE “AGE OF AQUARIUS”
HOW?
OUTRAGEOUS CLOTHING & APPEARANCE
COMMUNAL / GROUP HOMES, COMMUNITIES
NEW RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES, PRACTICES
LIBERAL USE OF DRUGS (MARIJUANA, LSD, ETC.)
NEW MUSIC STYLES: “ACID” ROCK, “HEAVY METAL”, ETC.
“DO YOUR OWN THING, MAN”

7. “Tune in, Turn on, Drop Out”
“Dr.” Timothy Leary & followers

8. THE COUNTERCULTURE WHERE IS THE MOVEMENT CENTERED?
SAN FRANCISCO: HAIGHT-ASHBURY
BERKELEY, CA: U of. CA
NYC: GREENWICH VILLAGE
***CA. IS “HIPPIE CENTRAL” BECAUSE CA. STATE LAW DIDN’T OUTLAW HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS UNTIL ’66
THE MOVEMENT DECLINES:
QUIZ: WHY DID THE COUNTERCULTURE MOVEMENT EVENTUALLY DECLINE?
A. BECAUSE IT WAS A JOKE
B. DRUGS FRY YOUR BRAIN
C. THEY NEVER HAD A CLUE TO BEGIN WITH
D. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
E. ALL OF THE ABOVE
ANY OTHER REASONS IT FAILED?
UNREALISTIC GOALS
DRUG CULTURE BECAME VERY VIOLENT
THE NOVELTY WORE OFF – REALITY SET IN

9. YEAH, MAN!

10. ANY QUESTIONS?

11. HIPPIES

12. YOUNG HIPPIES OLD HIPPIES

13. GUESS WHO?

14. FAMOUS COUNTERCULTURE EVENTS
1967:
THE SUMMER OF LOVE
THE BEATLES RELEASE ALBUM SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND
1969:
AUGUST:
WOODSTOCK
MANSON FAMILY COMMIT TATE-LaBIANCA MURDERS
DECEMBER: ALTAMONT CONCERT
1970:
JIMI HENDRIX ODs
JANIS JOPLIN DIES
1971: The BEATLES BREAK-UP

16. WOODSTOCK, 1969

17. ROLLING STONES ALTAMONT CONCERT, 1969

19. JIM MORRISON

20. JANIS JOPLIN

21. THE GRATEFUL DEAD

22. GRATEFUL DEAD IMAGERY

23. COUNTERCULTURE TERMS & LINGO
MAN: Basically refers to anybody or anything. Usually unnecessary to completing a sentence or thought in grammatically correct form, BUT IT DEMONSTRATED THAT YOU WERE COOL, HIP, OR NOT A “SQUARE”.
THE MAN: Any group, entity, or institution that was viewed by youth as oppressive or potentially oppressive. This categorization could, and often did, encompass anybody over yrs. Old. Usual targets in this categorization were:
The U.S. Government
The U.S. Military
Big Businesses
Mainstream religious institutions
Anybody who was successful, except for rock stars/musicians, actors, artists, poets, novelists, or philosophers, because they weren’t “corrupt”…Man!

24. WAVY GRAVY

26. COUNTERCULTURE TERMS & LINGO
PAD: Place of residence, domicile, etc.
CRIB: Place or residence, domicile, etc.
BREAD: Money
DOUGH: Money
COOL: Hip, alluring in a confident way
RIGHTEOUS: Meaningful, of great importance, and probably cool as well
HEAVY: Of deep meaning, requiring great insight and thought (or maybe just a lot of drug use), probably righteous, and probably cool as well
DEEP: Heavy

27. COUNTERCULTURE TERMS & LINGO
SMACK: Heroin
HORSE: Heroin
DOPE: Heroin or Marijuana
UPPERS: Amphetamines
DOWNERS: Barbituates
ACID: LSD
ANGEL DUST: PCP
BLOW: Cocaine (More of a 1970’s phenomenon)

28. COUNTERCULTURE TERMS & LINGO
THE MACHINE: Same as “The Man”
THE FUZZ: The police or any other law enforcement agency
PIGS: Same as “The Fuzz”

29. SAN FRANCISCO, CURRENT DAY

31. GUESS WHO?

33. THE HUMAN “BE – IN” POSTER, JANUARY, 1967

35. CHARLES MANSON

36. MANSON FAMILY GIRLS

37. ACTRESS
SHARON TATE

38. COUNTERCULTURE, PT.I QUIZ
1. In the early 1960’s, the beatniks began moving into what district of San Francisco?
2. __ authored One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?
3. True / False: Hippie communes only existed on the U.S. West Coast.
4. Which drug was more lucrative to trade / sell: Marijuana or Heroin?
5. True / False: Americans who used marijuana tended to come from lower-income families.