Hippie movement

Hippy movement occurs in the middle 1960s on the

west coast of the United States, in San Francisco,
and has spread to the USA and Europe
The beatniks were a group of rebellious people that read and
wrote poetry as a way to express themselves, and they spent
most of their time in coffee houses filled with other beatniks.
Beatniks were basically stoners who liked to dress in black and
hang out in coffee houses and read weird poetry and listen to music
and discuss philosophy. Hippies were middle class kids who were
pretty much rebelling against their parents and their way of life. I
actually was a hippie so I know that group intimately. We wanted
everybody to love each other and world peace but we wanted to
have fun too and we did. The beatniks were somber types and we
were wide open.-theInternet girl

Beatniks: Short hair
Hippies: Long hair

Beatniks: Black and White
Hippies: Lots of color

Beatniks: Literature and folk music
Hippies: Acid rock...altough many like folk

Beatniks: Have intelegent conversations
Hippies: Smoke weed and think they're having intelegent
conversations...but forget what they were talking about once
sober.
Eventually, the beatniks dropped their poetic ways, and
turned into what we know as the hippie.
Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing
popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s,
many aspects of hippie culture have been assimilated by mainstream
society. The religious and cultural diversity espoused by the hippies has
gained widespread acceptance, and Eastern philosophy and spiritual
concepts have reached a larger audience. The hippie legacy can be
observed in contemporary culture in myriad forms, including health
food, music festivals, contemporary sexual mores, and even the
cyberspace revolution.

Hippies created their own
communities, listened to psychedelic
music, embraced the sexual
revolution, and used drugs such as
cannabis, LSD, and psilocybin
mushrooms to explore altered states
of consciousness.
Hippies were young people, about 25 years old, mostly
from rich families, who rejected their way of life and
matherialistic system of values
They left comfort, elegance, shallow adult way of life
and they chose simple, rustic and natural life
They want batter down boundaries: national, race,
religious, sex and other diferences

Many hippies were musicians, and they wrote music as a
way to express their thoughts, feeling, beliefs, and ideas.

They came together to drink,
smoke, sing, make love, dance, be
together, and just be hippies.
Hippies are:
Vegetarians
Nudists
Intercede for natural medicine
Clothing reform
Sexual reform
Economic, social, cultural and religious reforms
Freedom for children, women and animals
If everyone demanded peace instead of
another television set, then there'd be
peace.
John Lennon
They were wearing jeans and colorful trapeze
pants, large shirts and skirts
The hair was symbol of protest, freedom,
individuality, pride. It was long, wild,
intractable just like nature. Hair and neck were
decorated with flowers
The look
The look
The jewlerry was made by colorful pearls, symbols
like peace,symbol (it represents footprint of pigeon
and symbolizes peace, ying- yang, smiley
Travel, domestic and international, was a
prominent feature of hippie culture,
becoming an extension of friendship
The VW B us became known as a
counterculture and hippie symbol, and many
buses were repainted with graphics and/or
custom paint jobs
Traveling
Traveling

Live instead of surviving, Love
instead tolerating, Walk instead
of running, Discover instead of
learning
Music
Janis Joplin, Grace Slick,
Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Rolling
stones, The Who, Iron Butterfly,
Frank Zappa, Jefferson Airplane,
The Greatful Dead, Big Brother,
Holding Company
Hippie songs
John Lenon - Imagine
Scott MacKenzie If you are going to San Francisko
Fun.- We Are Young
Hippie life
Canned Heat - Going Up The Country
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not
the only one. I hope someday you'll join
us. And the world will live as one.
John Lennon
- Hippies were also known very well for there drug use many
hallucinogenic drugs at that..such as marijuana, mescaline,
psilocybin, and LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) as a way to
escape reality and look within themselves.
- The drugs were a driving force for how they felt spiritually and
mentally with others...

Gatherings


Political and economy reality, problem with
drugs just like commercialisation of
movement destroyed their dreams very
quickly.
In High Ashburry, in 1996. were 100 000
displaced people, unemployed, health
unsecured.
Like every style, this attracted many of those
who didn't get anything but they were just
trying to participate, smoke weed and sing.