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Hippie and psychedelic culture influenced 1960s to mid 1970s teenager and youth culture in Iron Curtain countries in Eastern Europe (see Mánička). [15] Hippie fashion and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, mainstream society has assimilated many aspects ...
As a hippie Ken Westerfield helped to popularize Frisbee as an alternative sport in the 1960s and 1970s. Much of hippie style had been integrated into mainstream American society by the early 1970s. [57] [58] [59] Large rock concerts that originated with the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and the 1968 Isle of Wight Festival became the norm ...
The Hog Farm group was flown to New York, were met by the international press at JFK Airport, and told for the first time that they had also been assigned the task of providing festival security. Gravy called his rather unorthodox security force the "Please Force", a reference to their non-intrusive tactics at keeping order ("please don't do ...
The Human Be-In took its name from a chance remark by the artist Michael Bowen made at the Love Pageant Rally. [6] The playful name combined humanist values with the scores of sit-ins that had been reforming college and university practices and eroding the vestiges of entrenched segregation, starting with the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee.
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, [6] [7] 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock.
The term Woodstock Nation refers specifically to the attendees of the original 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival.The phrase was coined by Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman, [1] and was later used as the title of his book Woodstock Nation: A Talk-Rock Album describing his experiences at the festival.
Pages in category "Hippie movement" The following 140 pages are in this category, out of 140 total. ... Northern California Folk-Rock Festival (1969) O. Ohu; Old ...
YIP planned a six-day Festival of Life – a celebration of the counterculture and a protest against the state of the nation. [98] This was supposed to counter the "Convention of Death." This promised to be "the blending of pot and politics into a political grass leaves movement – a cross-fertilization of the hippie and New Left philosophies."