Word Association – what comes to your mind?
A SHIFT IN AMERICA 1950’s- 1960’s
1950’ S A MERICA Typical suburban housewife image
M ARGARINE A DVERTISEMENT
Societies’ Corruption by Capitalism and Materialism - Rejection
THE 1960’s THE TIMES THEY ARE A- CHANGIN’
T HE NEW COUNTERCULTURE
America’s Institutions Targets of Social Critique – Morally Bankrupt Society
Individual Had No Chance – Had to Escape
P OLITICAL P ROTEST
Political Protest - Free Speech
Free Love
Counterculture Slogan “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measure or far away” Henry David Thoreau
S TART OF THE M OVEMENT America - Alan Ginsberg America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? … When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks? America after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world. Your machinery is too much for me. You made me want to be a saint. … I'm addressing you. Are you going to let our emotional life be run by Time Magazine? I'm obsessed by Time Magazine. I read it every week. Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore. I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library. It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me. It occurs to me that I am America. I am talking to myself again. … Beat Poets On the Road
F OLK TO R EVOLUTION How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? Yes, n how many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, n how many times must the cannon balls fly Before theyre forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind, The answer is blowin in the wind. How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, n how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, n how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind, The answer is blowin in the wind. How many years can a mountain exist Before its washed to the sea? Yes, n how many years can some people exist Before theyre allowed to be free? Yes, n how many times can a man turn his head, Pretending he just doesnt see? The answer, my friend, is blowin in the wind, The answer is blowin in the wind. Bob Dylan
T HE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS ARE WRITTEN ON THE SUBWAY WALLS - S OUND OF S ILENCE S IMON AND G ARFUNKEL …The old get old And the young get stronger May take a week And it may take longer They got the guns But we got the numbers Gonna win, yeah Were takin over Come on! … Five to One The Doors
I T JUST GOT SUFFOCATED. L IKE W OODSTOCK – THAT WASN ’ T ANYTHING. I T WAS JUST A WHOLE NEW MARKET FOR T - DYED T - SHIRTS. B OB D YLAN 1984