Counterculture Movements

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Counterculture Movements

The Hippies and the 1960's

The Hippies was a youth movement that took place in the last years of the 1960s and was characterized by nonviolent anarchy, concern for the environment and the rejection of Western materialism. The hippies formed a politically daring and antiwar counterculture, and artistically prolific in the U.S. and Europe. The style and colorful psychedelic was inspired by hallucinogenic drugs such as lysergic acid (LSD) and embodied in fashion, graphic arts and music of singers like Janis Joplin or bands like, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Pink Floyd (Farber, 1994).

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