1. Chapter 23 Section 3 Notes The Counterculture Movement

2. How the Counterculture Movement began
influenced by the Beat Movement in the 1950s
influenced by Antiwar and Equality Movements
Timothy Leary - “Father of the Counterculture”
Harvard professor
writer
Experimented with drugs
Encouraged students to
Still legal at the time
Beats were writers and musicians that believed technology, war, and materialism were consuming society

3. Who was in the Counterculture Movement?
HIPPIES MOSTLY
White
Young
Middle Class
Highly Educated
Politically Active
Interested in Music
Folk or Rock n Roll
“Unusual” Clothing
Tie Dye, Ripped Jeans
Long Hair
Men and women
Drug Use
Marijuana, LSD
Non-Christian Religions
Especially Buddhism
West or East Coast
SF Haight - Ashbury
most well known area

4. How did people in Counterculture plan on achieving their goal?
Rejecting societal norms
Not worried about
Materialism
Conventional home life
Success at work
Sharing Everything
Housing
Lived in Communes (explain)
In Cities
In Rural Areas too
Responsibilities
Chores, paying bills, etc…
Possessions
Food, Clothing, belonging, etc…

6. Why did the Movement fail?
Arguments over who would take care of responsibilities
Many hippies become drug addicts
“Posers” infiltrate the community
Lots of stealing

7. Counterculture Sayings, Symbols, & Vocab

8. Counterculture Art Bright, Neon Colors Many Drug Influenced
Lots of Detail
Graffiti, Music Posters, etc…
Pop Art
Painting everyday images realistically
Usually involves repetition
May change colors
Most famous artist = Andy Warhol

9. Concert Posters

10. Pop Art
Andy Warhol

11. Counterculture Music
Most 50’s and early 60’s pop music was positive and uplifting
Dating, Crushes, etc…
Music of the counterculture tended to make statements and be controversial
The Vietnam War, equality movements, drugs, etc…
Woodstock (1969) = 3 day music festival with hippies
major concert with multiple major acts
Sign of counterculture becoming mainstream
400,000 people attended Woodstock to watch 32 musical acts

12. The Beatles were a British
Band that definitely influenced
(and were influenced by) the
Counterculture Movement.
When they arrived in the
U.S. in 1964, they looked
Like “respectable young men”
Singing innocent sounding
Songs. That gradually began
To change and the 1967 album
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s
Club Band became an anthem
For the Counterculture Movement
The Beatles broke
Up in 1970.

13. Mass Media Makes Counterculture Mainstream
Movies, TV shows, News Coverage
Greater Sexual Permissiveness (R and PG versions)
More coverage of explicit violence
Charles Manson
Led Commune
Followers listened to him
Killed 7 people
Still in Prison
The MASH movie (1970) about the Korean War was raunchy and provocative.
The TV Show (1972 – 1983) was tamer, but still had an edge to it compared to TV of the 50’s and 60’s
1969 Movie included Drug Use, Communes, and Popularization of Hippie Lifestyle
TV Shows like The Brady Bunch made counterculture clothing mainstream

14. What did the average American think of the Counterculture Movement?
Didn’t like it at all
Voted for conservatives (Nixon) that promised to take action against them.