1. Culture &CountercultureCulture &CountercultureCulture &CountercultureCulture &Counterculture U.S. History Mr. Johnson

2. 1950s Culture

3. Baby Boom

4. Suburbs: Little BoxesSuburbs: Little BoxesSuburbs: Little BoxesSuburbs: Little Boxes

5. The Affluent SocietyThe Affluent SocietyThe Affluent SocietyThe Affluent Society Post-WWII economic boom Private sector wealth Public sector poverty

6. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Search for purpose in a world dominated by business Materialism vs. meaning

7. Death of a Salesman Play by Arthur Miller Lack of fulfillment from materialistic life “You can’t eat the orange and throw away the peel. A man is not a piece of fruit!”

8. Catcher in the Rye Adolescent angst, alienation, sexuality

9. The BeatsThe BeatsThe BeatsThe Beats Allen Ginsberg

10. HowlHowlHowlHowl I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz…

11. James DeanJames DeanJames DeanJames Dean “Rebel Without a Cause”

12. Berry & Presley “Jailhouse Rock”“Johnny B. Goode”

13. British InvasionBritish InvasionBritish InvasionBritish Invasion The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, 1964 Other bands –Rolling Stones –The Who –The Yardbirds

14. Rolling Stones “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

15. Jimi HendrixJimi HendrixJimi HendrixJimi Hendrix Revolutionized American rock music Woodstock, 1969 “Star Spangled Banner/Purple Haze”

16. Visual Arts

17. Pop Art Andy Warhol & Roy Lichtenstein

18. Andy Warhol

20. Roy LichtensteinRoy LichtensteinRoy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein

21. Roy LichtensteinRoy LichtensteinRoy LichtensteinRoy Lichtenstein

22. Op Art

24. Psychedelic Art

25. HippieCultureHippieCultureHippieCultureHippieCulture

26. “Never Trust Anyone Over Thirty”

27. Haight-AshburyHaight-AshburyHaight-AshburyHaight-Ashbury Center of San Francisco’s hippie/drug/art culture (hippie = counterculture) Summer of Love, 1967 –“If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair... If you're going to San Francisco, Summertime will be a love-in there.”

28. Haight-AshburyHaight-AshburyHaight-AshburyHaight-Ashbury

29. LSD & Marijuana

30. Woodstock, 1969

31. Richie Havens Swami Satchidananda Ravi Shankar Joan Baez Santana Grateful Dead Janis Joplin The Who Jefferson Airplane Crosby, Stills & Nash Jimi Hendrix Creedence Clearwater Revival

32. Woodstock, 1969

33. Abbie HoffmanAbbie HoffmanAbbie HoffmanAbbie Hoffman

34. Altamont ConcertAltamont ConcertAltamont ConcertAltamont Concert “Woodstock of the West Coast,” 1969 Murder by Hell’s Angels while Rolling Stones performed

35. Charles Manson “Manson Family” cult Serial murders by “flower children”

36. Nixon Presidency “Law and Order” “Silent Majority”

37. New Left

39. Vietnam War

40. Anti-War Protests

41. Students for a Democratic Society

42. Weather UndergroundWeather UndergroundWeather UndergroundWeather Underground