Hippie Subculture
Kayla DiMarco
English 1A
Dr. Small
28 April 2014
Hippie Subculture Punks, goths, metallers, soul sisters, hippies; there was a time when the young generation made it clear what tribe and music they were into by the way they dressed, but not anymore. The young subculture today has different definitions of these new young cultures, because of our society, rather than actually knowing who these people truly are. Call them freaks, the underground, the counter-culture, flower children, or hippies—they were all raised under the ideological system that came out of the mid‒1960’s and arose in Northern America and Western Europe. A hippie is a person who possess a core belief set revolving around the values of peace and love as being essential in an increasing globalized society, that are often associated with non-violent antigovernmental groups. Hippies created their own communities, listened to popular music, embraced the sexual revolution, and used some drugs such as cannabis, LSD, and psychedelic mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness. The beginnings were small, growing from the Beat Generation of the 1950’s. The Beats of the 50’s espoused a Bohemian lifestyle centered on poetry, literature and jazz music. The Beat Generation is a perfect example of the literary response in fiction to the spiritual discomfort that grew from dark cold war realities affecting artists and intellectuals immediately after the Second World War, a response that reached its fullest expression in the counterculture of the 1960’s. The counterculture was a romantic social movement of the late 1960s and early 1970’s, mainly populated by teenagers and persons in their early twenties who through their flamboyant lifestyle expressed their alienation from mainstream American life. The writings of Beat Generation poets Gary Snyder and Michael McClure, both based in or near San Francisco, appeared in the underground press and become popular authors of their books. Scientists and
English 1A
Dr. Small
28 April 2014
Hippie Subculture Punks, goths, metallers, soul sisters, hippies; there was a time when the young generation made it clear what tribe and music they were into by the way they dressed, but not anymore. The young subculture today has different definitions of these new young cultures, because of our society, rather than actually knowing who these people truly are. Call them freaks, the underground, the counter-culture, flower children, or hippies—they were all raised under the ideological system that came out of the mid‒1960’s and arose in Northern America and Western Europe. A hippie is a person who possess a core belief set revolving around the values of peace and love as being essential in an increasing globalized society, that are often associated with non-violent antigovernmental groups. Hippies created their own communities, listened to popular music, embraced the sexual revolution, and used some drugs such as cannabis, LSD, and psychedelic mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness. The beginnings were small, growing from the Beat Generation of the 1950’s. The Beats of the 50’s espoused a Bohemian lifestyle centered on poetry, literature and jazz music. The Beat Generation is a perfect example of the literary response in fiction to the spiritual discomfort that grew from dark cold war realities affecting artists and intellectuals immediately after the Second World War, a response that reached its fullest expression in the counterculture of the 1960’s. The counterculture was a romantic social movement of the late 1960s and early 1970’s, mainly populated by teenagers and persons in their early twenties who through their flamboyant lifestyle expressed their alienation from mainstream American life. The writings of Beat Generation poets Gary Snyder and Michael McClure, both based in or near San Francisco, appeared in the underground press and become popular authors of their books. Scientists and
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