Hippie
1)The hippies are part of the protest hippies movement that started at the beginning
of the 60s . This period was a turning point in history that influenced future decades
and still has an impact on the present day . What set off the movement is vietnam
war and the riots of the afro americans due to the racism . The people who were the
most involved were the students of the middle class . The well known slogan of the
hippies is peace and love . It also has a spiritual meaning .The hippies were people
who had the will to live in a world of love, peace and liberty . they wanted to
abandon all ideologies that caused harm to society . They rejected materialism,
consumer society, industrial society and authority, particularly parental authority.
They did not accept any form of violence and were against traditional marriage . Their
goal is that each person has their individual freedom . their search for freedom was
very visible by their clothing style which was very colorful and was in opposition to
the traditional costume that people wore at the time
3). The hippies also researched for free love and a sexuality without any taboos at
this time came access to the contraceptive pill and the legalization of abortion , which
allowed it to become widespread in the Western world (this reduced the birth rate) .
As hippie were anti violence , their famous sentence « make love not war » is still
used to this day . The hippie movement contributed to the emergence of ecological
awareness and advocated to a return to nature ,the hippies claimed to love in the
simplest and most natural way possible and they’re already ate bio . the hippie
movement had such an impact that it spread throughout the world and very strongly
in France after May 68 .
One of the events that really showed the influence and impact of the hippies was
summer love, the summer of 67 at San Francisco. Thousand of young people of the
whole world meet freely and introduced the culture to even more people .
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The movement was so powerful that it quickly spread in many countries , we can
even speak about mondialisation.
Hippies also created many events like summer festival and earth day . The early day
was a manifesto for the people and the planet . Since 1970 the earth day is still
celebrated.
The hippie movement had an undeniable cultural impact. Psychedelia influenced
“art”. But what is the psychedelia ?
2) Some of the most iconic and influential singers and musicians popped up in the
‘60s and ‘70s. One of the most defining events of the movement was the
1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair that took place in a muddy farm field in Bethel,
New York. Hundreds of thousands of people attended, well over the estimated
number. It was an unorganized mess but so successful it became the epitome of the
counterculture hippie movement. People traveled far and wide to attend and indulge
in music and drugs. More than 150 musicians attended with 32 musical acts. Some of
the most notable performers of the time played at the event, such as Janis Joplin,
Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Jimi Hendrix
Several pieces played during the event will become legendary, such as the Star
Spangled Banner (the anthem of the United States) reinterpreted by Jimi
Hendrix in a guitar solo in which he imitates B-52 bombings during the
Vietnam War, the Soul Sacrifice by Santana with an epic drum solo by one of
the youngest musicians of the festival, drummer Michael Shrieve (20 years old)
“Woodstock has become a legend, and has remained so present in people's
minds, which is good because it is not only a musical event, but also a
historical event. »
— Pascal Cordereix[33].
3) Vietnam Song
After serving in the Navy, Joe McDonald moved to Berkeley,
California, as the anti-Vietnam War movement was beginning to pick
up momentum. He recorded "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die-Rag"
under the name "Country Joe and the Fish"; the song gradually
became an anthem for the antiwar movement, particularly after
McDonald performed it at the Woodstock festival in 1969.
This video shows McDonald and his band performing Feel Like I’m Fixin to Die
Rag at Woodstock in 1969.
