The Hippie Movement

Hippie MovementYouth movement in the US

during the mid-1960s.Inherited some

countercultural values from the Beat Generation.

Important base was San Francisco, California.

Actually, the first hippies were studying in the university of San Francisco

Hippie Movement Another key influence was the

American folk music movement which had a strong base in

Greenwich Village in New York and Berkeley in California

A. Chandler Laughlin III was the founder of a folk music concert bar called Red Dog

Saloon. In the summer of 1965, Laughlin recruited much of the

talent that led to California's unique blend of traditional folk music and rock, and started a

tour.

Hippie Movement

In January 1967, the ‘Human Be-In’ in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco popularized the hippie culture,

leading to the legendary Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969

Woodstock Festival on the East Coast.

Hippie Movement

The movement itself had neither ideological or political organization defined, but generally tended

to ideas about libertarian socialism and environmentalism.

Hippie Movement

The cause that led many hippies to join the social protest was the Vietnam

War.Some Hippies broadened

their political beliefs and even set up communes in

the deserts of Western America.

Hippie look

Both sexes tended to wear long hair.

Men had beards.Women tended not

to wear a bra or shave their armpits

or legs.

HIPPIE look

One way to break the existing social patterns was something as simple as wearing pants at the hip, making the person look sloppy.

Therefore, one of the meanings of the word hippie, is person who wears the pants at the hip

Famous Hippies

Timothy Leary (LSD supporter)

Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead founder)

John Lennon (Beatles)Abbie Hoffman (social

activist)Merry PrankstersBeatlesBob DylanJefferson Airplane

Jimi HendrixJanis JoplinJane FondaJoan BaezJim MorrisonNeil YoungFrank ZappaGeorge CarlinCheech and Chong

The Merry Pranksters

Led by Ken KeseyBook written by Tom

Wolfe called “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”

Had a psychedelic bus they drove across the country to recruit others

Used LSD and other drugs to become ‘awakened’

The Pranksters introduced the world to The Grateful Dead.

Woodstock

Woodstock

Woodstock (Woodstock. 3 Days of Peace & Music) is one of the best-known rock festivals and most famous Hippie congregations ever.

It took place on a farm in Bethel, New York, on 15, 16, 17 and the morning of August 18, 1969.

Few crimes were committed during the festival, in contrast to the claims that the festival was intended as a celebration of peace and love.

A Few Woodstock Bands/Artists

Ravi ShankarJoan BaezSantanaGrateful DeadCreedence

Clearwater RevivalSly and the Family

StoneJanis JoplinThe Who

Jefferson AirplaneJoe CockerThe BandCrosby, Stills, Nash

and YoungJimi Hendrix

Artists that Cancelled

Jeff Beck Group (The band broke up in July, forcing cancellation)

Iron Butterfly (Stuck at the airport, their manager demanded helicopters and special arrangements just for them. Were wired back and told, as impolitely as Western Union would allow, "to get lost", but in other 'words'.)

Joni Mitchell (Joni's agent put her on "The Dick Cavett Show" instead)

Lighthouse (Feared that it would be a "bad scene".) Ethan Brown (Arrested for LSD three days before the

event.)

Bands that Declined

The Beatles (John Lennon said he couldn't get them together) Led Zeppelin (Got a higher paying gig at the Asbury Park

Convention Hall in New Jersey that weekend) Bob Dylan (Turned it down because of his disgust of the

hippies hanging around his house) The Byrds (Turned it down because of a melee during their

performance at the first Atlanta International Pop Festival, held at the Atlanta International Raceway on July 4 and July 5, 1969

Jethro Tull (Turned it down because they thought it wouldn't be a big deal.)

The Moody Blues were included in the original posters as performers, but backed out after taking a gig in Paris on the same weekend.

Altamont Free Concert

Thought to be ‘Woodstock West’Headlined by the Rolling Stones with

Jefferson Airplane, CSN&Y, SantanaGrateful Dead pulled out because of

increasing violenceSecurity was done by the Hell’s Angels

Recommended by the Grateful Dead, paid with $500 of beer

There was one homicide and three accidental deaths

4 births though!

Decline of the hippie movement

The events of Altamont and the Charles Manson case discredited hippies.

Parts of the hippie look, such as the long hair or flared trousers, became mere fashion followed by many young people around the United States.

Around 1980, the hippie look became just a fashion style.

The press lost interest in this subculture. On their part, many former hippies integrated into

the mainstream of thought and social and economic systems that they previously had rejected.