THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT

Javier Cagigas Viota

Hippie Movement

It was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s, swiftly spreading to other

countries around the world.

This new subculture inherited some countercultural values from the Beat

Generation and, to a lesser extent, German Naturism.

An important base was the city of 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 the prospect of libertarian socialism and environmentalism.

Hippie Movement

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

War.

In some cases there were lineups to a broader

political perspective, and even the utopian proposals, led to a radical existential

practice which was the emergence of intentional

hippy communities.

Hippie look

The male hippie icon was usually a man with hair and a beard much longer than

what was considered "elegant" at the time.

Both sexes tended to wear long hair and some hippies wore Afro style, imitating

blacks. Among women there was a

tendency not to wear a bra and not to 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

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.

Decline of the hippie movement

The media fuss about the events of Altamont and the

Charles Manson´s 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.