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The year 1968 also saw the development of two new, but dissimilar, genres of music that each exerted some influence on, and were influenced by, the hippie movements: Heavy metal, [50] and reggae. [51]
In 1968, long-haired teenagers mingle with hippies as they listen to bands at a pop music festival in Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach. Key West A hippie wedding in Key West in 1968.
Additional scenes looking at revolutionaries, street theater, nudist dance (with added music and psychedelic lighting) and the Hare Krishna movement are also included. O’Connell described his documentary as “a tour covering almost the entire canvas of the hippies’ art, blasting music, drugs, dance, philosophy and sex life". [2]
The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967.As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies, beatniks, and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park.
PLAYBACK: Mark Beaumont asks if the legendary hippie music festival was really a ‘blueprint for a new society’ or as ‘shambolic, profit-driven and violence-marred’ as the attempt to do it ...
The music venue created a nexus for the hippie movement in the western-minded Denver, which led to serious conflicts with city leaders, parents and the police, who saw the hippie movement as dangerous. The resulting legal actions and pressure caused Helms and Bob Cohen to close the venue at the end of that year. [79]
[citation needed] The idea of the Human Be-In was born of a fear that the movement would be erased due to tensions between factions of the Hippie movement. [citation needed] Bowen writes "The anti-war and free speech movement in Berkeley thought the Hippies were too disengaged and spaced out. Their influence might draw the young away from ...
2.2 1968. 2.3 1969. 2.4 1970. 3 See also. ... the Hippie movement, ... a group of one thousand people accompanied by music and geese burned down a Christmas tree in ...