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The Hippie Movement

Introduction

The hippie movement was a powerful though ultimately unrealistic and unsuccessful attempts to create a culture of innocence in the face of the cold war, the Vietnam War and other manifestations of militarism and imposed conformity. In this paper, we propose to analyze this movement and how it ruined the American culture. The sixties were upset U.S. both culturally, socially, economically and politically. In 1960 America was recruiting young people as soldiers to fight against the war in Vietnam. Thus a proportion of the population advocated civil disobedience, nonviolence, and the momentum of claim they claimed the freedom to take drugs and to display their sexuality. The notion of against-culture was born. The hippie movement culminated in the 1967 “Summer of Love”, based in San Francisco. After that summer, the culture of peace and love began to give way to the “Days of Rage”, as opponents of the war and social oppression within the United States vented anger at an allegedly repressive government. Nonetheless, hippies were still able to turn out in force at the Woodstock rock festival in 1969, where a number of antiwar musicians sang songs advocating peace and love, while thousands of audience members camped out in the adjoining field, made love, shared food, took drugs and enjoyed the music despite the rain and mud. The peace symbol was often worn on clothes, drawn on walls and classroom chalkboards, pictured on record covers and otherwise used in public ways.

Discussion

Despite the economic growth experienced by industrialized capitalist countries during the decade of 1960, there were societies in social tensions and political unrest expressions for various reasons. The main players in these manifestations of discontent were young. In the U.S., large sections of youth called “hippies” rebelled against the consumer society and sought an alternative. They rejected the American way of life, the political system and experienced new forms of relationships, with the values of love, freedom, anarchy, nonviolence, and using various slogans nature as opposed to the war in Vietnam, living in communities and revealing all.

It is a bohemian segment of the counterculture that emerged in San Francisco in the mid 1960s. They first made national news in a series of articles Michael Fallon wrote for the San Francisco Examiner in 1965. That was the year the United States first sent combat troops to Vietnam, and the hippie movement, which espoused peace and love, opposed the war. Most hippies were less than 30 years old, so hippie men were subject to the military draft.

Hippie literature and poetry

The hippies are also called “Beatniks” in reference to the Beat Generation, whose previous movement they inspired the intellectual commitments which are attached writers such as Rimbaud and writers of “realists” who advocated a return to nature like Walt Whitenan. The writings unconventional and provocative protest of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, but also the cartoons of Robert Crumb we feed the mind and imagination of American 1960s.

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