The Hippie MovementThe Hippie Movement

MAKE LOVE NOT WARMAKE LOVE NOT WAR

Hippies are not only junkies who want to escape from reality, there are not only people who wear weird colorful clothes and make love everywhere.There are more than that and we will try to explain the real hippie movement through

this presentation.

Explanation

• Origins:

– 19th century in Persia– After WWII– Beat generation– Vietnam War– Etymology

Summertime = Summer of love:

• Peak of the hippie movement• Between 67 and 69• 100 000 members moved to San Francisco

Woodstock:

Music and art fair festival• 500 000 people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StFhvAIv3Js&feature=related

– Friday, August 15

ｷｷ Richie Havens

ｷｷ Swami Satchidananda - gave the invocation for the festival ｷｷ Sweetwater ｷｷ The Incredible String Band ｷｷ Bert Sommer ｷｷ Tim Hardin ｷｷ Ravi Shankar ｷｷ Melanie ｷｷ Arlo Guthrie ｷｷ Joan Baez

The music organization of the three days:

– Saturday, August 16

ｷｷ Quill, forty-minute set of four songs

ｷｷ Keef Hartley Band ｷｷ Country Joe McDonald ｷｷ John Sebastian ｷｷ Santana ｷｷ Canned Heat ｷｷ Mountain ｷｷ Grateful Dead ｷｷ Creedence Clearwater Revival ｷｷ Janis Joplin with The Kozmic Blues Band [25] ｷｷ Sly & the Family Stone ｷｷ The Who began at 4 a.m., kicking off a 25-song set including

Tommy ｷｷ Jefferson Airplane

– Sunday, August 17 to Monday, August 18

ｷｷ The Grease Band

ｷｷ Joe Cocker ｷｷ Country Joe and the Fish ｷｷ Ten Years After ｷｷ The Band ｷｷ Blood, Sweat & Tears ｷｷ Johnny Winter featuring his brother, Edgar Winter ｷｷ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ｷｷ Paul Butterfield Blues Band ｷｷ Sha-Na-Na

ｷｷ Jimi Hendrix

Lifestyle:

• Peace and love

• 1958 Gerald Holdom

• Nuclear Disarmament

Flower Power:• Protest against the Vietnam War

• Haight Ashbury in San Francisco

• “Be sure to wear flowers in you hair”.

Look:• Main rule: they were no rules!• Psychedelic imagination• Jeans• Nudism• Importance of accessories• Long hair• Beards, mustaches• Women stopped shaving• Blacks wore afros

Vehicle:• VW bus, van and bug

• Living space

• Psychedelic patterns

Communal living:

• Shared houses

• Shared food, money, ...

• Gave class to their children

• Against the authority of their parents

Drugs:• Marijuana (marijane or tea)

• LSD (acid)

• Goal: open their spirit

3 Groups of people:

• The Groovers: Took LSD to party and find partners.

• The Mind Trippers: wore flowered clothes and searching for therapy.

• The Cosmic Conscious: used drugs for Eucharistic nature

LSD:

• Discovered by Albert Holfmann in 1943

• Supposed to help psychiatric diseases

• Miracle effect

• Illegal in the USA in October 66

• Lots of arts related to LSD due to effect hallucinogenic.

Music:

• Psychedelic Rock: translate the effect of psychotropic drugs.

Singers: The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, ...

• Folk Rock: Bob Dylan, The Beatles, the Byrds, Neil Young, ...

HAIR:

• Musical created in 1967.

• Reflected the hippies and

their way of life.

• Wonderful Music

(let the sunshine in)

• Nude Scene

• Ideas about nudeness.

The end of the movement:

• Realized that they couldn’t continue that way.

• Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin’s deaths.• Charles Manson.• Normal life.• Acceptance of some of their peaceful

ideas.

“The needle and the damage done”Neil Young

I caught you knockin'at my cellar door I love you, baby, can I have some more Ooh, ooh, the damage done.

I hit the city and I lost my band I watched the needle take another man Gone, gone, the damage done.

I sing the song because I love the man I know that some of you don't understand Milk-blood to keep from running out.

I've seen the needle and the damage done A little part of it in everyone But every junkie's like a settin' sun.

What about them now?

• Opened our minds.

• Hippie communities still existing today:

France, Denmark, Germany, India, California, ...

Conclusion:

We hope you don’t see hippies as only junkies anymore and that you understand better their way of life.Hippies were pacifists and were ‘fighting’ against violence.What do you think?Would you have wanted to belong to one of their communities if you were born at that time?