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Love, Peace & Happiness
Hippies hip, eingeweiht
Beatniks:
Frustration after 2nd. World war -> beat generation against old social wars and industry
expressed feeling by performing written words with music
influences: free lifestyle of students, artists, pacifism and jazz
gave themselves a new horizon by drugs and meditations like \"Zen\"
became famous because of media and changed because of Vietnam war into Hippie culture: \"I\'m hip\" was an old Beatnik slogan
Many coffee houses opened, but more and more Beatniks went on the street to protest against the government
-> Hipsters, then Hippies were born!
Definition represents hippies as members of a movement in the second half of the 60s in which especially teens of higher society classes protest peacefully against the affluent, industrial society and the social and cultural disgraces of the American way of life.
basic idea: more humane world
fought against: Racism, poverty, lack of women\'s right
they refused to conform:
free love, free sex, music & drugs, shared housing, independent, close to nature
shabby clothes, long hair
immaterial values are very important
symbol: flower (\"flowerpower\")
movement grew because of the Vietnam war:
soldiers died, and Hippies died by protesting against it
musicians like Bob Dylan (\"How many roads\"), Jimmy Hendrix and The Beatles expressed the feelings of Hippies on festivals; took the words of beatniks on a higher level
-> big music festivals like Woodstock because of the Iraq War the Hippie movement is becoming more important again -> peace movement |
