Films

 So, you want to know more about hippie movement, but you don't like reading books? Than, our list of films related to hippie subculture will certainly help you to learn something new about the 60's. Enjoy watching films online just after clicking on its title!

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1) Hair
Hair is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama and film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical of the same name about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. The hippies introduce him to their environment of marijuana, LSD, unorthodox relationships and draft dodging.
The film was directed by Miloš Forman, who was nominated for a César Award for his work on the film.  The film was nominated for Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture (for Williams).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_%28film%29)

http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Woodstock-Demetri-Martin/dp/B002SQ364Q

2) Taking Woodstock
A generation began in his backyard…From Academy Award®-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) comes Taking Woodstock, the comedy inspired by the true story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.
(http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Woodstock-Demetri-Martin/dp/B002SQ364Q)

3)Across the Universe

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Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by The Beatles that defined the time.
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445922/ )

4)Woodstock

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Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary on the Woodstock Festival that took place in August 1969 at Bethel in New York. Entertainment Weekly called this film the benchmark of concert movies and one of the most entertaining documentaries ever made.
Both cuts take liberties with the timeline of the festival. However, the opening and closing acts are the same in the film as in real life, i.e., Richie Havens opens the show and Jimi Hendrix closes it.
In 1996, Woodstock was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_%28film%29)




5)The Boat That Rocked

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In mid- to late-'60s Britain, an unusual yet colorful subculture sprang up and thrived as a product of the upswing in British pop music, only to meet its doom within a few short years. Though the BBC functioned as the country's main source of news and music, its programmers offered very little airtime to rock & roll -- which left an overwhelming need unfulfilled. In response, small bands of "pirate" radio enthusiasts set up broadcasting towers on boats just outside of English boundary waters, and transmitted signals to an estimated 25 million listeners, 24 hours a day and seven days per week. 
 (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pirate_radio/)

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6)The 60's

The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.
 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169528/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl)





7) Steal This Movie 

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Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left. The skeptical reporter interview's Anita, Hoffman's wife, a single mom on welfare in New York City; Hoffman's attorney, Gerry Lefcourt; and others. As they talk, we see Hoffman's career in flashbacks, from early civil rights organizing through the trial of the Chicago Eight. While underground, as mental illness takes its toll, he meets Johanna Lawrenson, and an odd family develops: Abbie, Anita, their son, and Johanna. Will vindication ever arrive?  
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161216/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl)

Hippie - Music

Peace everyone. Here's our regular musical section . Meet, The Doors

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The Doors, one of the most influential and controversial rock bands of the 1960s, were formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by UCLA film studentsRay Manzarek, keyboards, and Jim Morrison, vocals; with drummerJohn Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger. The group never added a bass player, and their sound was dominated by Manzarek's electric organ work and Morrison's deep, sonorous voice, with which he sang and intoned his highly poetic lyrics. The group signed to Elektra Records in 1966 and released its first album, The Doors, featuring the hit "Light My Fire," in 1967.

Like "Light My Fire," the debut album was a massive hit, and endures as one of the most exciting, groundbreaking recordings of the psychedelic era. Blending blues, classical, Eastern music, and pop into sinister but beguiling melodies, the band sounded like no other. With his rich, chilling vocals and somber poetic visions, Morrison explored the depths of the darkest and most thrilling aspects of the psychedelic experience. Their first effort was so stellar, in fact, that The Doors were hard-pressed to match it, and although their next few albums contained a wealth of first-rate material, the group also began running up against the limitations of their recklessly disturbing visions. By their third album, they had exhausted their initial reservoir of compositions, and some of the tracks they hurriedly devised to meet public demand were clearly inferior to, and imitative of, their best early work.

On The Soft Parade, the group experimented with brass sections, with mixed results. Accused (without much merit) by much of the rock underground as pop sellouts, the group charged back hard with the final two albums they recorded with Morrison, on which they drew upon stone-cold blues for much of their inspiration, especially on 1971'sL.A. Woman.

From the start, The Doors' focus was the charismatic Morrison, who proved increasingly unstable over the group's brief career. In 1969, Morrison was arrested for indecent exposure during a concert in Miami, an incident that nearly derailed the band. Nevertheless, The Doors managed to turn out a series of successful albums and singles through 1971, when, upon the completion of L.A. Woman, Morrison decamped for Paris. He died there, apparently of a drug overdose. The three surviving Doors tried to carry on without him, but ultimately disbanded. Yet The Doors' music and Morrison's legend continued to fascinate succeeding generations of rock fans: in the mid-'80s,Morrison was as big a star as he'd been in the mid-'60s, and Elektra has sold numerous quantities of The Doors' original albums plus reissues and releases of live material over the years, while publishers have flooded bookstores with Doors and Morrison biographies. In 1991, director Oliver Stone made The Doors, a feature film about the group starring Val Kilmer as Morrison.

(http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-doors-mn0000114342)

Books

So, this post is for intellectuals : list of books and publications related to the hippie subculture. Of course it is only a small part of great amount of hippie literature, but at least we tried to gather books which are in public domain, so if you like a description and want to read a book from the list, just click on its title.

1) On the Road

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On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac. On the Road is based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across America. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation (forerunner to the hippie movement)with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use.
When the book was originally released, The New York Times hailed it as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is." In 1998, the Modern Library ranked On the Road 55th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. 

The main ideas of the Beat Generation, the longing for belief and meaning in life, are reflected in On the Road . Kerouac has admitted that the biggest of these themes is religion. All of the travel and personal interaction in the book permit an examination of the ideas of masculinity and mobility in the 1950s. While these concepts may seem unrelated, Kerouac weaves them together to provide another form of rebellion against the social norm of conformity.

On the Road has been a major influence on many poets, writers, actors and musicians, including Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Jim Morrison, Hunter S. Thompson, and many more.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road)

2)The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was written by Tom Wolfe in 1968.Wolfe presents a first hand account of the experiences of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. Wolfe traveled across the country with the Pranksters in their day-glo painted school bus named "Furthur". Kesey and Pranksters became famous for their use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs in hopes of achieving intersubjectivity. The book chronicles the Acid Tests (Parties in which LSD laced Kool-Aid was used to obtain a communal trip), the groups experiences with famous groups and individuals, including famous authors, Hell's Angels, The Grateful Dead, and it also describes Kesey's exile to Mexico and his arrests.
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is remembered as an accurate and “essential” book depicting the roots and growth of the hippie movement. Additionally, the book is remembered because of its usage of New Journalism techniques. The book was widely read and attitudes towards its themes were polarized. Some saw the book as a testament to the downfall of American youth, while others read the book as gospel, seeing Kesey as a sort of Christ figure.
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3)The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based On The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead (commonly referred to as The Psychedelic Experience) is an instruction manual intended for use during sessions involving psychedelic drugs. Started as early as 1962 in Zihuatanejo, the book was finally published in August 1964. This version of Tibetan Book of the Dead was authored by Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner and Richard Alpert, all of whom took part in experiments investigating the therapeutic and religious possibilities of drugs such as mescaline, psilocybin and LSD. The book is dedicated to Aldous Huxley and includes a short introductory citation from Huxley's book The Doors of Perception. Part of this text was used by the Beatles in the song Tomorrow Never Knows.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Psychedelic_Experience)

4)The Doors of Perception 
The Doors of Perception is a 1954 book by Aldous Huxley detailing his experiences when taking mescaline. The book takes the form of Huxley's recollection of a mescaline trip that took place over the course of an afternoon, and takes its title from a phrase in William Blake's poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, which range from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision". He also incorporates later reflections on the experience and its meaning for art and religion.

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A variety of influences have been claimed for the book. The psychedelic proselytiser, Timothy Leary, was given the book by a colleague soon after returning from Mexico where he had first taken psilocybin mushrooms in the summer of 1960. He found that The Doors of Perception corroborated what he had experienced 'and more too'. Leary soon set up a meeting with Huxley and the two became friendly. The book can also be seen as a part of the history of entheogenic model of understanding these drugs, that sees them within a spiritual context. Looking to broader culture, Huxley's experiment can be seen, alongside the work of other artists such as John Cage and Jackson Pollock, as proposing a model of the imagination opposite to the symbolic, representational structures that had governed Western thought for centuries. Although this new direction cannot be attributed entirely to mescaline or Huxley, it had made a strong impact on politics, art and religion.
This book was the influence behind Jim Morrison's naming his band The Doors in 1965.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doors_of_Perception)

5)Steal This Book
Steal This Book is a book written by Abbie Hoffman. Written in 1970 and published in 1971, the book exemplified the counter-culture of the sixties.

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The book, in the style of the counter-culture, mainly focused on ways to fight the government, and against corporations in any way possible. The book is written in the form of a guide to the youth. Hoffman, a political and social activist himself, used many of his own activities as the inspiration for some of his advice in Steal This Book.
Steal this Book is broken up into three sections, "Survive!", "Fight!" and "Liberate!". Each section has several sub-chapters each pertaining to its section.
The section "Survive!" is about getting "free" things and as its title indicates, surviving. It includes chapters on how to acquire food, clothing, furniture, transportation, land, housing, education, medical care, communication, entertainment, money, dope, and other assorted items and services. The section "Fight!" is about the counter-culture imperative of rebelling against the government and corporations. It includes chapters on starting an underground press, guerrilla radio, guerrilla television, what to bring to a demonstration that’s expected to be violent, how to make an assortment of home-made bombs, first aid for street fighters, legal advice, how to seek political asylum, shoplifting techniques, stealing credit cards, guerrilla warfare, gun laws, and identification papers. This section also includes advice on such topics as growing cannabis, living in a commune, and obtaining a free buffalo from the Department of the Interior. It discusses various tactics of fighting as well as giving a detailed list of affordable and easy ways to find weapons and armor that can be used in a confrontation with law enforcement. The section advocates rebelling against authority in all forms, governmental and corporate. The third section is "Liberate!" with the chapter headings: Fuck New York, Fuck Chicago, Fuck Los Angeles, and Fuck San Francisco. The book also includes an appendix that lists "approved" organizations and other books worth stealing.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_this_book)

6)LSD — My Problem Child

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LSD - My Problem Child  is the story of LSD told by a concerned yet hopeful father, organic chemist Albert Hofmann. He traces LSD's path from a promising psychiatric research medicine to a recreational drug sparking hysteria and prohibition.

We follow Dr. Hofmann's trek across Mexico to discover sacred plants related to LSD, and listen in as he corresponds with other notable figures about his remarkable discovery.
Underlying it all is Dr. Hofmann's powerful conclusion that mystical experience may be our planet's best hope for survival. Whether induced by LSD, meditation, or arising spontaneously, such experiences help us to comprehend "the wonder, the mystery of the divine‹in the microcosm of the atom, in the macrocosm of the spiral nebula, in the seeds of plants, in the body and soul of people."
More than sixty years after the birth of Albert Hofmann's problem child, his vision of its true potential is more relevant, and more needed, than ever.
(http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8791.LSD)


7) Hippies from A to Z

http://www.amazon.com/Hippies-From-Impact-Sixties-Present/dp/1930258011

Hippies From A to Z is an overview of the personalities and events of the Hippy Movement, how they influenced the course of history and transformed American society. The first part of the book contains a general discussion of the impact of hippies upon society including the major achievements of the Hippie
Movement. The second part is a reference work covering the details. The book includes chapters on: Philosophy, Activism, Sex & Love, Drugs, Music, Fashions & Lifestyle, Old Hippies, Young Hippies, a Hippie Timeline, Landmark Events, Famous Hippies and an extensive Glossary. Hippies From A to Z answers all those questions about hippies, their philosophy and lifestyle including who did what, when and why.
(http://www.amazon.com/Hippies-From-Impact-Sixties-Present/dp/1930258011)

Hippie - Music

Hi everyone. Here's our regular topic - Hippie-Music. Meet, Jamaican singer, musician and songwriter, served as a world ambassador for reggae music - Bob Marley 

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Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in Nine Miles, Saint Ann, Jamaica, to Norval Marley and Cedella Booker. His father was a Jamaican of English descent. His mother was a black teenager. The couple planned to get married but Norval left Kingston before this could happen. Norval died in 1955, seeing his son only once.

Bob Marley started his career with the Wailers, a group he formed with Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston in 1963. Marley married Rita Marley in February 1966, and it was she who introduced him to Rastafarianism. By 1969 Bob, Tosh and Livingston had fully embraced Rastafarianism, which greatly influence Marley's music in particular and on reggae music in general. The Wailers collaborated with Lee Scratch Perry, resulting in some of the Wailers' finest tracks like "Soul Rebel", "Duppy Conquerer", "400 Years" and "Small Axe." This collaboration ended bitterly when the Wailers found that Perry, thinking the records were his, sold them in England without their consent. However, this brought the Wailers' music to the attention of Chris Blackwell, the owner of Island Records.

Blackwell immediately signed the Wailers and produced their first album, "Catch a Fire". This was followed by "Burnin'", featuring tracks as "Get Up Stand Up" and "I Shot the Sheriff." Eric Clapton's cover of that song reached #1 in the US. In 1974 Tosh and Livingston left the Wailers to start solo careers. Marley later formed the band "Bob Marley and the Wailers", with his wife Rita as one of three backup singers called the I-Trees. This period saw the release of some groundbreaking albums, such as "Natty Dread", "Rastaman Vibration".

In 1976, during a period of spiraling political violence in Jamaica, an attempt was made on Marley's life. Marley left for England, where he lived in self-exile for two years. In England "Exodus" was produced, and it remained on the British charts for 56 straight weeks. This was followed by another successful album, "Kaya." These successes introduced reggae music to the western world for the first time, and established the beginning of Marley's international status.

In 1977 Marley consulted with a doctor when a wound in his big toe would not heal. More tests revealed malignant melanoma. He refused to have his toe amputated as his doctors recommended, claiming it contradicted his Rastafarian beliefs. Others, however, claim that the main reason behind his refusal was the possible negative impact on his dancing skills. The cancer was kept secret from the general public while Bob continued working.

Returning to Jamaica in 1978, he continued work and released "Survival" in 1979 which was followed by a successful European tour. In 1980 he was the only foreign artist to participated in the independence ceremony of Zimbabwe. It was a time of great success for Marley, and he started an American tour to reach blacks in the US. He played two shows at Madison Square Garden, but collapsed while jogging in NYC's Central Park on September 21, 1980. The cancer diagnosed earlier had spread to his brain, lungs and stomach. Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital on May 11, 1981. He was 36 years old.

(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002490/bio)

How To: Friendship Braslet

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Friendship bracelets symbolize friendship between people, so close friends can present each other with such bracelets. They are handmade and embroidery floss is usually used to make them. There are a lot of different patterns and styles of knotting friendship bracelets. They are made with macramé knots. Friendship bracelets are unisex.
Originally, the knotting technique was invented by Indians in North, Central and South America. According to the local custom, the one to whom the bracelet is presented shouldn’t take it off until it wears off by itself. The friend who makes the bracelet puts his love into doing it and the one who receives the bracelet should be thankful for the love and hard work of the friend. If a bracelet is taken off before it wears off by itself – it means the friendship has ended.
Later on this custom appeared among hippies in America. After exchanging friendship bracelets the hippies became brothers.
Nowadays friendship bracelets can be worn just like jewelry without any meaning to it. However, they can also symbolize something, for example, musical likings. The colors on the bracelet can symbolize something as well.
(http://fene4ki.ru/en/friendship-bracelet-history.html)

How to make the easiest one:

http://giladayalonorigami.99k.org/friendship_braceletes/html/Tutorials.htm

Hippie - Music

One of the greatest guitarists of all the time. Meet - Jimi Hedrix 

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Known for his amazing guitar style and boisterous antics on stage, Jimi Hendrix was to become the focal point of Woodstock and arguably, the best electric guitar player the world has ever heard.

Born into poverty, Jimi did not have an easy life growing up. His parents divorced when he was young and his mother died when he was in his teens. This all led him to search for an outlet to his pains. At about the age of fourteen, Hendrix was able to pick up a one-string acoustic guitar, which inspired him to play like Muddy Waters and Lightnin’ Hopkins. His father eventually bought him an electric guitar and he learned to play by ear from listening and practicing endless hours to the likes of Chuck Berry.

After a short stint in the military, he was discharged for being an incompetent soldier because all he wanted to do was play his guitar. Upon leaving the Army, he moved to Nashville where he attempted to secure a band that could keep up with his playing style. He was able to make a meager living playing in black clubs, but aspired for something more. So, he moved to New York City. In Greenwich Village, he was discovered by a producer that eventually saw him on a flight to London. Once there, he made a recording of a song titledHey Joe, a single release, which soon went to the top of the charts. He then released two other songs he had written and they too went number one – sealing his success as one of the world’s greatest performers.

Upon his return to the States, he played his jams on the Monday morning that Woodstock was supposed to end. Even with all sorts of on-stage technical problems, it has gone down in history as one of the best performances by any one artist. This brought about the particularly remembered solo of the Star-Spangled Banner, the United States’ Anthem, which he sang with machine-gun sounds and people screaming in the background. Back in London performing and at the age of 27, Hendrix was found dead in his apartment after an apparent sleeping pill and alcohol overdose that wasn’t seen as suicide.

(http://www.biographyshelf.com/jimi_hendrix_biography.html)

Hippy Or Not Hippy, That Is The Question

Good afternoon, folks! If you want to become a real hippy man, these articles (1 and 2) should help you on your way. But is it necessary for you to follow some advice? Maybe you can already be considered as a hippy? Take this short test and the result will show whether you can title yourself hippy or not and which categery of the movement you belong to.
Peace!

http://www.west-info.eu/superpowers-of-peace-and-love-generation-marijuana-lsd-soft-drugs/

Hippy - Music

Let's start our day with great tunes of 60-s. Meet, Jefferson Airplane!

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Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success.

Throughout the late 1960s, Jefferson Airplane was one of the most sought-after and highly-paid concert acts in the world and they are also notable as the only band to have performed at all three of the most famous American rock festivals of the 1960s — Monterey (1967), Woodstock (1969) and Altamont (1969). Their recordings were internationally successful and sold in great quantities, and they scored two US Top 10 hit singles and a string of Top 20 albums. Their 1967 record Surrealistic Pillow is still widely regarded as one of the key recordings of the so-called Summer of Love period and brought the group international recognition (as well as two chart hits: "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" both of which are listed inRolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time").

Successor bands to Jefferson Airplane include Jefferson Starship and Starship while spinoffs include Hot Tuna and KBC Band. Jefferson Airplane was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.       (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jefferson+airplane/biography.html)

So, Who Are Hippies?

The main ideas of hippies, such as:

1. vegetarianism

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2. nudism

3. natural medicine

4. abstinence from alcohol

5. clothing reform

6. settlement movements

7. garden towns

8. soil reform

9. sexual reform

10. health food and economic reform

11. social reform

12. liberation for women, children and animals

13. communitarianism

14. cultural and religious reform: i.e. a religion or view of the world that gives weight to the feminine, maternal and natural traits of existence

were widespread in early 20^th century, so hippy subculture have a perennial history.  If you are interested in the roots of the movement, you can read the article . There is also a theory that ideas of Ancient Greeks, espoused by philosophers like Diogenes of Sinope and the Cynics are also early forms of hippie culture.Find out more.But here we will write about the prime of the movement- 1960s in the USA.

So, what was the reason, which caused great flowering of this subculture? The Vietnam War was the major event during that time and the main ground for circulation the ideas of peace.

The age of a hippie ranged from 15 to 25 years old. A lot of young teens ran away from their families to join this popular group of careless people. The Hippie movement appealed to teens because it represented Freedom and a way to have fun. Hippies believed in a utopian society in which all differences in class, race, social status, and gender should disappear so that each individual could satisfy his or her actual needs.

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Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and some used drugs such as cannabis, LSD, and magic mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness.

Public gatherings—part music festivals, sometimes protests, often simply excuses for celebrations of life—were an important part of the hippie movement. The first “be-in,” called the Gathering of the Tribes, was held in San Francisco in 1967. A three-day music festival known as Woodstock, held in rural New York state in 1969, drew an estimated 400,000–500,000 people and became virtually synonymous with the movement. Hippies participated in a number of teach-ins at colleges and universities in which opposition to the Vietnam War was explained, and they took part in antiwar protests and marches. They joined other protestors in the “moratorium”—a nationwide demonstration—against the war in 1969. They were involved in the development of the environmental movement. The first Earth Day was held in 1970.

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By the mid-1970s the movement had waned, and by the 1980s hippies had given way to a new generation of young people who were intent on making careers for themselves in business and who came to be known as yuppies (young urban professionals). Nonetheless, hippies continued to have an influence on the wider culture, seen, for example, in more relaxed attitudes toward sex, in the new concern for the environment, and in a widespread lessening of formality.

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Hi folks! We are students of the Clelyabinsk State University - Dasha, Sergey and Anastasia. This is our project for informatics and we are glad to introduce you to our blog about hippies. Here we will post interesting information, music, videos, pictures and tips for making DIY things in hippy style. Hope you'll enjoy it!:)