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1. General information

2. Aims and Quotes

3. Developement

4. 1967 - summer of love

5. Get together

6. Music

7. Woodstock

8. Sources

General General informationinformation

• originally a youth movement

• USA during the mid-1960s

• spread to other countries around the world

• word 'hippie' came from hipster

Hippie's aimsHippie's aims

• make love, not war

• peace

• no tabus, no obligation

• "Do your own thing, whereever you have to do it and whenever you want."

• "Drop out. Leave society, as you have known it."

• "Blow the mind of every straight person you can reach. Turn them on if not to drugs, than to beauty, love, honesty and fun."

DevelopementDevelopement

• lived their spin-off

• culture was a living process

• developed lots of values which were against the American values

• formed a non-economic aspect of the political life

• pointed on personal, private, psychique values

• searched for honesty, physical happiness, affection, spirit of experiments,...

• lived in ramshackle huts, selled self maded fiber crafts

• selled drugs to survive

July 1967 - summer of July 1967 - summer of lovelove

•summer 1967 crowns the height of the culture

(most members in USA)

•500,000 young-adults who left school, parents or job

•idea of a festival is based on a "drop-out"

•attitudes "non-joining" a situation and "leaving" were generation modes of the middle 60s

Get-togetherGet-together

•summit meetings were big open air festivals, e.g.:

🔸 1967: Human-Be-In, San Francisco, Golden Gate Park (20,000)

🔸July 1969: "Rolling Stones" concert, Hyde Park (200,000)

🔸August 1969: Woodstock (400,000)

🔸1970: Beat-/ Popconcert, Isle of Wight (1,000,000)

MusicMusic

•different types:

- folk

- rock

- soul

- blues

• 60,000 guests expected

• one million were on the way

• 400,000 people (traffic jam)

WoodstockWoodstock

• 32 bands

• Michael Lang wanted to financiate his studio with the gains

Jimi Hendrix (†) Jimi Hendrix (†)

Blood, Sweat & TearsBlood, Sweat & Tears

Joe CockerJoe Cocker

Janis Joplin (†)Janis Joplin (†)

The Beatles, The Rolling The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin Stones, Led Zeppelin

Are hippies still Are hippies still alive?alive?

Yes they are!Yes they are!

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