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 +"The [[hippie]] dream of [[peace and love]] evaporated in the aftermath of the [[Kent State shootings]] (May '69), the [[Helter Skelter (scenario)|Manson massacre]] (August '69), the [[Death of Meredith Hunter|Altamont murder]] (December '69), the deaths of [[Jimi Hendrix]] (September '70), [[Janis Joplin]] (October '70) and [[Jim Morrison]] (July '71). It would be another decade before [[The end of the sexual revolution|the sexual revolution ended]]." --Sholem Stein
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 +"It is clear that many [[hippie]] leaders became in the 1980s perfect [[yuppie]]s, including the great leader [[Jerry Rubin]], turned [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] activist and [[Neoliberalism|neo-liberal]] convinced Republican. In France, [[Michel Clouscard]] was the main thinker to have predicted this transformation, seeing in the hippie movement a simple internal crisis of American [[capitalism]], which far from being threatened was to emerge only stronger from these events. He crystallized this idea in his concept of "[[Libertarian liberalism (political theory)|liberal-libertarian]]"." --Sholem Stein
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 +"The [[hippie trail]] came to an end in the late 1970s with political changes in previously hospitable countries. In 1979, both the [[Iranian Revolution]] and the [[Soviet–Afghan War |Soviet invasion of Afghanistan]] closed the overland route to Western travelers." --Sholem Stein
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 +[[Image:Guerrillero Heroico - Che Guevara by Alberto Diaz Gutierrez.jpg|thumb|200px|By the late 1960s, revolutionary [[Che Guevara]]'s [[Guerrillero Heroico|famous image]] had become a popular symbol of [[youth rebellion]]]]
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-'''Hippie''' refers to a subgroup of the [[1960s counterculture|1960s and early 1970s counterculture]] that found its earliest beginnings in the [[North American counterculture]], becoming an established [[social group]] by [[1965]] before declining during the mid-1970s. The hippie dream of [[peace and love]] was shattered in [[1970]] with the events at [[Altamont Free Concert|Altamont]], the [[Manson murders]] and the deaths of [[Jimi Hendrix]] and [[Janis Joplin]]. +'''Hippie''' refers to a subgroup of the [[1960s counterculture|1960s and early 1970s counterculture]] that found its earliest beginnings in the [[North American counterculture]], becoming an established [[social group]] by [[1965]] before declining during the mid-1970s. The hippie dream of [[Make love, not war |peace and love]] was shattered in [[1970]] with the events at [[Altamont Free Concert|Altamont]], the [[Helter Skelter (Manson scenario) |Manson murders]] and the deaths of [[Death of Jimi Hendrix|Jimi Hendrix]] and [[Janis Joplin]].
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-===Origins===+The '''hippie''' (or '''hippy''') [[subculture]] was originally a [[youth movement]] that arose in the [[United States]] during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The [[Hippie (etymology)|word 'hippie']] came from ''[[hipster (1940s subculture)|hipster]]'', and was initially used to describe [[beatnik]]s who had moved into New York City's [[Greenwich Village]] and San Francisco's [[Haight-Ashbury]] district. The origins of the terms ''[[Hip (slang)|hip]]'' and ''hep'' are uncertain, though by the 1940s both had become part of [[African American culture|African American]] [[African American Vernacular English|jive]] slang and meant "sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date". The Beats adopted the term ''hip'', and early hippies inherited the language and [[counterculture of the 1960s|countercultural values]] of the [[Beat Generation]] and mimicked some of the then current values of the British [[Mod (subculture)|Mod scene]]. Hippies created their own communities, listened to [[psychedelic rock]], embraced the [[sexual revolution]], and some used drugs such as [[cannabis (drug)|cannabis]], [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|LSD]], and [[psilocybin mushroom]]s to explore [[Altered state of consciousness|altered states of consciousness]].
-A July 1967 ''[[Time Magazine]]'' study on hippie philosophy credited the foundation of the hippie movement with historical precedent as far back as the counterculture of the [[Greece|Ancient Greeks]], espoused by philosophers like [[Diogenes of Sinope]] and the [[Cynicism (philosophy)|Cynic]]s also as early forms of hippie culture. It also named as notable influences the religious and spiritual teachings of [[Henry David Thoreau]], [[Hillel the Elder]], [[Jesus]], [[Gautama Buddha|Buddha]], [[St. Francis of Assisi]], [[Gandhi]], and [[J.R.R. Tolkien]].+In January 1967, the [[Human Be-In]] in [[Golden Gate Park]] in San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the [[Summer of Love]] on the [[West Coast of the United States]], and the 1969 [[Woodstock Festival]] on the East Coast.
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-The first signs of modern "proto-hippies" emerged in [[fin de siècle]] [[Europe]]. Between 1896 and 1908, a German youth movement arose as a countercultural reaction to the organized social and cultural clubs that centered around German folk music. Known as ''[[Wandervogel|Der Wandervogel]]'' ("migratory bird"), the movement opposed the formality of traditional German clubs, instead emphasizing amateur music and singing, creative dress, and communal outings involving hiking and camping. Inspired by the works of [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], [[Goethe]], [[Hermann Hesse]], and [[Eduard Baltzer]], Wandervogel attracted thousands of young Germans who rejected the rapid trend toward urbanization and yearned for the [[Germanic Neopaganism|pagan]], back-to-nature spiritual life of their ancestors. During the first several decades of the 20th century, Germans settled around the United States, bringing the values of the Wandervogel with them. Some opened the first [[health food store]]s, and many moved to [[Southern California]] where they could practice an alternative lifestyle in a warm climate. Over time, young Americans adopted the beliefs and practices of the new immigrants. One group, called the "Nature Boys", took to the California desert and raised organic food, espousing a back-to-nature lifestyle like the Wandervogel. Songwriter [[eden ahbez|Eden Ahbez]] wrote a hit song called ''[[Nature Boy (song)|Nature Boy]]'' inspired by Robert Bootzin ([[Gypsy Boots]]), who helped popularize health-consciousness, [[yoga]], and [[organic food]] in the United States.+
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-Like Wandervogel, the hippie movement in the United States began as a youth movement. Composed mostly of white teenagers and young adults between 15 and 25 years old, hippies inherited a tradition of cultural dissent from [[Bohemianism|bohemian]]s and [[beatniks]] of the [[Beat Generation]] in the late 1950s. Beats like [[Allen Ginsberg]] crossed over from the beat movement and became fixtures of the burgeoning hippie and anti-war movements. By 1965, hippies had become an established [[Group (sociology)|social group]] in the U.S., and the movement eventually expanded to other countries, extending as far as the United Kingdom and Europe, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, [[La Onda|Mexico]], and Brazil. The hippie ethos influenced [[The Beatles]] and others in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe, and they in turn influenced their American counterparts. Hippie culture spread worldwide through a fusion of [[rock music]], [[folk music|folk]], [[blues]], and [[psychedelic rock]]; it also found expression in literature, the dramatic arts, [[1960s in fashion|fashion]], and the visual arts, including film, posters advertising rock concerts, and [[album]] covers.+
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-Self-described hippies had become a significant minority by 1968, representing just under 0.2% of the U.S. population before declining in the mid-1970s.+
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-Along with the [[New Left]] and the [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)|American Civil Rights Movement]], the hippie movement was one of three dissenting groups of the 1960s counterculture. Hippies rejected established institutions, criticized [[middle class]] values, opposed [[nuclear weapons]] and the [[Opposition to the Vietnam War|Vietnam War]], embraced aspects of [[Eastern philosophy]], championed [[sexual liberation]], were often [[vegetarian]] and [[environmentally friendly|eco-friendly]], promoted the use of [[psychedelic drug]]s which they believed expanded one's consciousness, and created [[Intentional community|intentional communities]] or communes. They used alternative arts, [[street theatre]], [[folk music]], and [[psychedelic rock]] as a part of their lifestyle and as a way of expressing their feelings, their protests and their vision of the world and life. Hippies opposed political and social orthodoxy, choosing a gentle and nondoctrinaire ideology that favored peace, love and personal freedom, expressed for example in [[The Beatles]]' song "[[All You Need is Love]]".+
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-Hippies perceived the dominant culture as a corrupt, monolithic entity that exercised undue power over their lives, calling this culture "[[The Establishment]]", "[[Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)|Big Brother]]", or "[[The Man]]". Noting that they were "seekers of meaning and value", scholars like [[Timothy Miller]] have described hippies as a [[new religious movement]].+
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-===Early hippies (1960&ndash;1966)===+
-During the early 1960s, novelist [[Ken Kesey]] and The [[Merry Pranksters]] lived communally in California. Members included Beat Generation hero [[Neal Cassady]], [[Ken Babbs]], [[Carolyn Garcia|Carolyn Adams (aka Mountain Girl/Carolyn Garcia)]], [[Stewart Brand]], [[Del Close]], [[Paul Foster (cartoonist)|Paul Foster]], [[Merry Pranksters|George Walker]], Sandy Lehmann-Haupt and others. Their early escapades were documented in [[Tom Wolfe]]'s book ''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]''. With Cassady at the wheel of a school bus named [[Further (bus)|Further]], the Merry Pranksters traveled across the United States to celebrate the publication of Kesey's novel ''[[Sometimes a Great Notion (novel)|Sometimes a Great Notion]]'' and to visit the 1964 [[World's Fair]] in New York City. The Merry Pranksters were known for using [[cannabis (drug)|marijuana]], [[amphetamines]], and [[LSD]], and during their journey they "turned on" many people to these [[Psychoactive drug|drug]]s. The Merry Pranksters filmed and audiotaped their bus trips, creating an immersive multimedia experience that would later be presented to the public in the form of festivals and concerts. The [[Grateful Dead]] wrote a song about the Merry Pranksters' bus trips called "That's It for the Other One".+
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-During this period [[Greenwich Village]] in New York City and [[Berkeley, California]] anchored the American folk music circuit. Berkeley's two coffee houses, the Cabale Creamery and the Jabberwock, sponsored performances by folk music artists in a beat setting. In April 1963, Chandler A. Laughlin III, co-founder of the Cabale Creamery, established a kind of tribal, family identity among approximately fifty people who attended a traditional, all-night [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] [[peyote]] ceremony in a rural setting. This ceremony combined a [[psychedelic experience]] with traditional Native American spiritual values; these people went on to sponsor a unique genre of musical expression and performance at the Red Dog Saloon in the isolated, old-time mining town of [[Virginia City, Nevada]].+
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-During the summer of 1965, Laughlin recruited much of the original talent that led to a unique amalgam of traditional folk music and the developing psychedelic rock scene. He and his cohorts created what became known as "[[Red Dog Experience|The Red Dog Experience]]", featuring previously unknown musical acts &mdash; [[Grateful Dead]], [[Jefferson Airplane]], [[Big Brother and the Holding Company]], [[Quicksilver Messenger Service]], [[The Charlatans (U.S. band)|The Charlatans]], and others — who played in the completely refurbished, intimate setting of Virginia City's Red Dog Saloon. There was no clear delineation between "performers" and "audience" in "The Red Dog Experience", during which music, psychedelic experimentation, a unique sense of personal style and Bill Ham's first primitive light shows combined to create a new sense of community. Laughlin and George Hunter of the Charlatans were true "proto-hippies", with their [[long hair]], boots and outrageous clothing of 19th-century American (and Native American) heritage. LSD manufacturer [[Owsley Stanley]] lived in Berkeley during 1965 and provided much of the LSD that became a seminal part of the "Red Dog Experience", the early evolution of psychedelic rock and budding hippie culture. At the Red Dog Saloon, The Charlatans were the first psychedelic rock band to play live (albeit unintentionally) loaded on LSD.+
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-When they returned to San Francisco, Red Dog participants Luria Castell, Ellen Harman and Alton Kelley created a collective called "The Family Dog." Modeled on their Red Dog experiences, on October 16, 1965, the Family Dog hosted "[[Doctor Strange|A Tribute to Dr. Strange]]" at Longshoreman's Hall. Attended by approximately 1,000 of the Bay Area's original "hippies", this was San Francisco's first [[psychedelic rock]] performance, costumed dance and light show, featuring [[Jefferson Airplane]], [[The Great Society (band)|The Great Society]] and The Marbles. Two other events followed before year's end, one at California Hall and one at the Matrix. After the first three Family Dog events, a much larger psychedelic event occurred at San Francisco's Longshoreman's Hall. Called "The Trips Festival", it took place on January 21&ndash;January 23, 1966, and was organized by [[Stewart Brand]], [[Ken Kesey]], [[Owsley Stanley]] and others. Ten thousand people attended this sold-out event, with a thousand more turned away each night. On Saturday January 22, the [[Grateful Dead]] and [[Big Brother and the Holding Company]] came on stage, and 6,000 people arrived to imbibe punch spiked with LSD and to witness one of the first fully developed light shows of the era.+
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-By February 1966, the Family Dog became Family Dog Productions under organizer [[Chet Helms]], promoting happenings at the [[Avalon Ballroom]] and the [[The Fillmore|Fillmore Auditorium]] in initial cooperation with [[Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham]]. The Avalon Ballroom, the Fillmore Auditorium and other venues provided settings where participants could partake of the full psychedelic music experience. Bill Ham, who had pioneered the original Red Dog light shows, perfected his art of [[Liquid light show|liquid light projection]], which combined light shows and film projection and became [[Wiktionary:synonymous#Pronunciation|synonymous]] with the San Francisco ballroom experience. The sense of style and costume that began at the Red Dog Saloon flourished when San Francisco's Fox Theater went out of business and hippies bought up its costume stock, reveling in the freedom to dress up for weekly musical performances at their favorite ballrooms. As ''San Francisco Chronicle'' music columnist [[Ralph J. Gleason]] put it, "They danced all night long, orgiastic, spontaneous and completely free form."+
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-Some of the earliest San Francisco hippies were former students at [[San Francisco State University|San Francisco State College]] who became intrigued by the developing psychedelic hippie music scene. These students joined the bands they loved, living communally in the large, inexpensive [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] apartments in the [[Haight-Ashbury]]. Perry writes that SFSC students rented cheap, Edwardian-Victorians in the Haight.</ref> Young Americans around the country began moving to San Francisco, and by June 1966, around 15,000 hippies had moved into the Haight.<ref name="Tompkins_2001b" /> [[The Charlatans (U.S. band)|The Charlatans]], [[Jefferson Airplane]], [[Big Brother and the Holding Company]], and the [[Grateful Dead]] all moved to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood during this period. Activity centered around the [[Diggers (theater)|Diggers]], a guerrilla street [[theatre]] group that combined spontaneous street theatre, anarchistic action, and [[Happening|art happenings]] in their agenda to create a "free city". By late 1966, [[Diggers (theater)|the Diggers]] opened [[free stores]] which simply gave away their stock, provided free food, distributed free drugs, gave away money, organized free music concerts, and performed works of political art.<ref name="Lytle_2006_213215">{{harvnb|Lytle|2006|pp=213, 215}}.</ref>+
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-On October 6, 1966, the state of California declared LSD a controlled substance, which made the drug illegal.<ref name="Columbia">{{Citation+
- | last = Farber+
- | first = David+
- | last2 = Bailey+
- | first2 = Beth L.+
- | title = The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s+
- | page = 145+
- | publisher = Columbia University Press+
- | year = 2001+
- | isbn = 0-231-11373-0+
-}}</ref> In response to the criminalization of psychedelics, San Francisco hippies staged a gathering in the [[Panhandle (San Francisco)|Golden Gate Park panhandle]], called the [[Love Pageant Rally]],<ref name="Columbia" /> attracting an estimated 700–800 people.<ref>{{Citation+
- | last = Charters+
- | first = Ann+
- | author-link = Ann Charters+
- | title = The Portable Sixties Reader+
- | page = 298+
- | publisher = Penguin Classics+
- | year = 2003+
- | isbn = 0-14-200194-5+
-}}</ref> As explained by Allan Cohen, co-founder of the ''[[San Francisco Oracle]]'', the purpose of the rally was twofold: to draw attention to the fact that LSD had just been made illegal — and to demonstrate that people who used LSD were not criminals, nor were they mentally ill. The Grateful Dead played, and some sources claim that LSD was consumed at the rally. According to Cohen, those who took LSD "were not guilty of using illegal substances...We were celebrating transcendental consciousness, the beauty of the universe, the beauty of being."<ref name="Lee_Shlain_1992_149">{{harvnb|Lee|Shlain|1992|p=149}}.</ref>+
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-===Summer of Love (1967)===+
-On January 14, 1967, the outdoor [[Human Be-In]] organized by [[Michael Bowen (artist)|Michael Bowen]] helped to popularize hippie culture across the United States, with 20,000 hippies gathering in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. On March 26, [[Lou Reed]], [[Edie Sedgwick]] and 10,000 hippies came together in [[Manhattan]] for the [[Central Park Be-In]] on [[Easter Sunday]].<ref>DeCurtis, Anthony. (July 12, 2007). "New York". ''Rolling Stone''. Issue 1030/1031; For additional sources, see McNeill, Don, "[http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/0543,50thmcneill,69181,31.html Central Park Rite is Medieval Pageant]", The Village Voice, 30 March. 1967: pg 1, 20; Weintraub, Bernard, "Easter: A Day of Worship, a "Be-In" or just Parading in the Sun", The New York Times, 27 March. 1967: pg 1, 24.</ref> The [[Monterey Pop Festival]] from June 16 to June 18 introduced the rock music of the counterculture to a wide audience and marked the start of the "Summer of Love".<ref name="Dudley_2000_254">{{harvnb|Dudley|2000|pp=254}}.</ref> [[Scott McKenzie]]'s rendition of [[John Phillips (musician)|John Phillips]]' song, "[[San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)|San Francisco]]", became a hit in the United States and Europe. The lyrics, "If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair", inspired thousands of young people from all over the world to travel to San Francisco, sometimes wearing flowers in their hair and distributing flowers to passersby, earning them the name, "[[flower child|Flower Children]]". Bands like the [[Grateful Dead]], [[Big Brother and the Holding Company]] (with [[Janis Joplin]]), and [[Jefferson Airplane]] lived in the Haight.+
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-In June 1967, [[Herb Caen]] was approached by "a distinguished magazine"<ref name=Caen/> to write about why hippies were attracted to San Francisco. He declined the assignment but interviewed hippies in the Haight for his own newspaper column in the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''. Caen determined that, "Except in their music, they couldn't care less about the approval of the straight world."<ref name=Caen/> Caen himself felt that the city of San Francisco was so straight that it provided a visible contrast with hippie culture.<ref name=Caen>SFGate.com. Archive. Herb Caen, June 25, 1967. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/31/PK6016S108.DTL ''Small thoughts at large'']. Retrieved on June 4, 2009.</ref> On July 7, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine featured a cover story entitled, "The Hippies: The Philosophy of a Subculture." The article described the guidelines of the hippie code: "Do your own thing, wherever you have to do it and whenever you want. Drop out. Leave society as you have known it. Leave it utterly. Blow the mind of every straight person you can reach. Turn them on, if not to drugs, then to beauty, love, honesty, fun."<ref name="Marty_1997_125">{{harvnb|Marty|1997|pp=125}}.</ref> It is estimated that around 100,000 people traveled to San Francisco in the summer of 1967. The media was right behind them, casting a spotlight on the Haight-Ashbury district and popularizing the "hippie" label. With this increased attention, hippies found support for their ideals of love and peace but were also criticized for their anti-work, pro-drug, and permissive ethos.{{citation needed|date=September 2011}}+
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-At this point, [[The Beatles]] had released their groundbreaking album ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' which was quickly embraced by the hippie movement with its colorful psychedelic sonic imagery.<ref>''Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles: It Was Forty Years Ago Today'', Julien, Olivier. Ashgate, 2009. ISBN 978-0754667087.</ref>+
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-By the end of the summer, the Haight-Ashbury scene had deteriorated. The incessant media coverage led [[Diggers (theater)|the Diggers]] to declare the "death" of the hippie with a parade.<ref>{{Citation|first=Barry |last=Miles|year=2003 |title=Hippie|publisher=Sterling Press|isbn=1-4027-1442-4|pages=210–211}}</ref><ref>{{Citation+
- | title = October Sixth Nineteen Hundred and Sixty Seven+
- | publisher = San Francisco Diggers+
- | date = 1967-10-06+
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-}}</ref><ref name="Bodroghkozy">{{Citation|last=Bodroghkozy|first=Aniko |title=Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion|publisher=Duke University Press|year=2001|page=92|isbn=0-8223-2645-0}}</ref> According to poet Susan 'Stormi' Chambless, the hippies buried an effigy of a hippie in the [[Panhandle (San Francisco)|Panhandle]] to demonstrate the end of his/her reign. Haight-Ashbury could not accommodate the influx of crowds (mostly naive youngsters) with no place to live. Many took to living on the street, panhandling and drug-dealing. There were problems with malnourishment, disease, and drug addiction. Crime and violence skyrocketed. None of these trends reflected what the hippies had envisioned.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hippiedictionary.com/excerpts.html |title=The Hippie Dictionary, about the 60s and 70s |publisher=Hippiedictionary.com |date= |accessdate=2012-11-21}}</ref> By the end of 1967, many of the hippies and musicians who initiated the Summer of Love had moved on. [[Beatle]] [[George Harrison]] had once visited Haight-Ashbury and found it to be just a haven for dropouts, inspiring him to give up LSD.{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}} Misgivings about the hippie culture, particularly with regard to [[drug abuse]] and lenient morality, fueled the [[moral panic]]s of the late 1960s.<ref>{{Citation+
- | last = Muncie+
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-===Revolution (1967&ndash;1969)===+
-By 1968, hippie-influenced fashions were beginning to take off in the mainstream, especially for youths and younger adults of the populous "[[Baby Boomer]]" generation, many of whom may have aspired to emulate the hardcore movements now living in tribalistic communes, but had no overt connections to them. This was noticed not only in terms of clothes and also longer hair for men, but also in music, film, art, and literature, and not just in the US, but around the world. [[Eugene McCarthy]]'s brief presidential campaign successfully persuaded a significant minority of young adults to "get clean for Gene" by shaving their beards or wearing longer skirts; however the "Clean Genes" had little impact on the popular image in the media spotlight, of the hirsute hippy adorned in beads, feathers, flowers and bells.+
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-[[File:Psych out.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Poster for the [[hippie exploitation films|hippie exploitation film]] ''[[Psych-Out]]'']] A sign of this was the visibility that the hippie subculture gained in various mainstream and underground media. [[Hippie exploitation films]] are 1960s [[exploitation films]] about the hippie counterculture<ref>[http://thesocietyofthespectacle.com/2009/04/mondo-mod-worlds-of-hippie-revolt-and-other-weirdness/ MONDO MOD WORLDS OF HIPPIE REVOLT (AND OTHER WEIRDNESS)]</ref> with stereotypical situations associated with the movement such as [[marijuana]] and [[LSD]] use, sex and wild psychedelic parties. Examples include ''[[The Love-ins]]'', ''[[Psych-Out]]'', ''[[The Trip (1967 film)|The Trip]]'', and ''[[Wild in the Streets]]''. Other more serious and more critically acclaimed films about the hippie counterculture also appeared such as ''[[Easy Rider]]'' and ''[[Alice's Restaurant]]'' (for more information on hippie related films see [[List of films related to the hippie subculture]]). Documentaries and television programs have also been produced until today as well as [[List of books and publications related to the hippie subculture|fiction and nonfiction books]]. Also the popular broadway musical ''[[Hair (musical)|Hair]]'' was presented in 1967.+
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-The [[Yippies]], who were seen as an offshoot of the hippie movements parodying as a political party, came to national attention during their celebration of the 1968 spring equinox, when some 3,000 of them took over [[Grand Central Terminal]] in New York &mdash; eventually resulting in 61 arrests. The Yippies, especially their leaders [[Abbie Hoffman]] and [[Jerry Rubin]], became notorious for their theatrics, such as trying to levitate the Pentagon at the October 1967 war protest, and such slogans as "Rise up and abandon the creeping meatball!" Their stated intention to protest the [[1968 Democratic National Convention]] in Chicago in August, including nominating their own candidate, "[[Pigasus (politics)|Lyndon Pigasus Pig]]" (an actual pig), was also widely publicized in the media at this time.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,900067,00.html "The Politics of Yip", ''TIME Magazine'', Apr. 5, 1968]</ref> In Cambridge, hippies congregated each Sunday for a large "be-in" at Cambridge Park with swarms of drummers and those beginning the Women's Movement. In the US the Hippie movement started to be seen as part of the "[[New Left]]" which was associated with anti-war college campus protest movements.<ref name="Carmines and Layman"/> The New Left was a term used mainly in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[United States]] in reference to [[social activism|activists]], [[educator]]s, [[agitators]] and others in the 1960s and 1970s who sought to implement a broad range of reforms on issues such as gay rights, abortion, gender roles and drugs<ref name="Carmines and Layman">Carmines, Edward G., and Geoffrey C. Layman. 1997. "Issue Evolution in Postwar American Politics." In Byron Shafer, ed., '''Present Discontents'''. NJ:Chatham House Publishers.</ref> in contrast to earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had taken a more [[vanguardist]] approach to social justice and focused mostly on [[labor movement|labor unionization]] and questions of [[social class]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=3nJUwFqRLTwC&lpg=PA277&ots=R6I8p1E-Mu&dq=new%20left%20cynthia%20kaufman&pg=PA275#v=onepage&q=new%20left&f=false] Cynthia Kaufman ''Ideas For Action: Relevant Theory For Radical Change''</ref><ref><br>[[Todd Gitlin]], "The Left's Lost Universalism". In Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger and M. Richard Zinman, eds., ''Politics at the Turn of the Century'', pp.&nbsp;3&ndash;26 (Lanham, MD: [[Rowman & Littlefield]], 2001).<p>{{Cite journal|author=Grant Farred|authorlink=Grant Farred|year=2000|title=Endgame Identity? Mapping the New Left Roots of Identity Politics|journal=[[New Literary History]]|volume=31|issue=4|pages=627–648|jstor=20057628}}</ref>+
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-In April 1969, the building of [[People's Park]] in Berkeley, California received international attention. The [[University of California, Berkeley]] had demolished all the buildings on a {{convert|2.8|acre|m2|sing=on}} parcel near campus, intending to use the land to build playing fields and a parking lot. After a long delay, during which the site became a dangerous eyesore, thousands of ordinary Berkeley citizens, merchants, students, and hippies took matters into their own hands, planting trees, shrubs, flowers and grass to convert the land into a park. A major confrontation ensued on May 15, 1969, when Governor [[Ronald Reagan]] ordered the park destroyed, which led to a two-week occupation of the city of Berkeley by the [[California National Guard]].<ref name="Wollenberg">{{Citation|last=Wollenberg|first=Charles |title=Berkeley, A City in History|publisher=University of California Press|year=2008|isbn=0-520-25307-8|url=http://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/system/Chapter9.html}}</ref><ref name=hayward_2001>{{Citation|last=Hayward|first=Steven F.|title=The Age of Reagan, 1964-1980: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order|year=2001|publisher=Prima Publishing|location=Roseville, California|isbn=978-0-7615-1337-7|oclc=47667257|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0BafgsBIlrwC&pg=PA325|accessdate=31 January 2011|page=325}}</ref> [[Flower power]] came into its own during this occupation as hippies engaged in acts of [[civil disobedience]] to plant flowers in empty lots all over Berkeley under the slogan "Let a Thousand Parks Bloom".+
-[[Image:Woodstock69.jpg|thumb|left|Hippies at the [[Woodstock Festival]], 1969]]+
-In August 1969, the [[Woodstock Festival|Woodstock Music and Art Fair]] took place in [[Bethel, New York]], which for many, exemplified the best of hippie counterculture. Over 500,000 people arrived<ref name="Dean">{{Citation|last=Dean|first=Maury|authorlink=Maury Dean |title=Rock 'N' Roll Gold Rush|publisher=Algora Publishing|year=2003|page=243|isbn=0-87586-207-1}}</ref> to hear some of the most notable musicians and bands of the era, among them [[Canned Heat]], [[Richie Havens]], [[Joan Baez]], [[Janis Joplin]], [[The Grateful Dead]], [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]], [[Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young]], [[Carlos Santana]], [[The Who]], [[Jefferson Airplane]], and [[Jimi Hendrix]]. [[Wavy Gravy|Wavy Gravy's]] [[Hog Farm]] provided security and attended to practical needs, and the hippie ideals of love and human fellowship seemed to have gained real-world expression. Similar rock festivals occurred in other parts of the country, which played a significant role in spreading hippie ideals throughout America.<ref>Mankin, Bill. [http://likethedew.com/2012/03/04/we-can-all-join-in-how-rock-festivals-helped-change-america/ We Can All Join In: How Rock Festivals Helped Change America]. Like the Dew. 2012.</ref>+
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-In December 1969, a rock festival took place in [[Altamont, California]], about 30 miles (45&nbsp;km) east of San Francisco. Initially billed as "Woodstock West", its official name was [[Altamont Music Festival|The Altamont Free Concert]]. About 300,000 people gathered to hear [[The Rolling Stones]]; [[Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young|Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young]]; [[Jefferson Airplane]] and other bands. The [[Hells Angels]] provided security that proved far less benevolent than the security provided at the Woodstock event: 18-year-old [[Meredith Hunter]] was stabbed and killed during The Rolling Stones' performance after he brandished a gun and waved it toward the stage.<ref name="Lee">{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/05/26/ALTAMONT.TMP|title=Altamont 'cold case' is being closed|last=Lee|first=Henry K.|date=2005-05-26|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |accessdate=2008-09-11}}</ref>+
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-===Aftershocks (1970–present)===+
-[[File:RussianRainbowGathering 4Aug2005.jpg|thumb|upright|Contemporary hippie at the [[Rainbow Gathering]] in Russia, 2005.]]+
-By the 1970s, the 1960s [[zeitgeist]] that had spawned hippie culture seemed to be on the wane.<ref name="Bugliosi_1994">{{harvnb|Bugliosi|Gentry|1994|pp=638–640}}.</ref><ref>Bugliosi (1994) describes the popular view that the Manson case "sounded the death knell for hippies and all they symbolically represented", citing [[Joan Didion]], [[Diane Sawyer]], and ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. Bugliosi admits that although the Manson murders "may have hastened" the end of the hippie era, the era was already in decline.</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/opinion/sunday/the-entrepreneurial-generation.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&smid=fb-share | work=New York Times | title=Generation Sell | date=2011-11-12 | accessdate=2011-12-03 | first1=William | last1=Deresiewics}}</ref> The events at [[Altamont Free Concert]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=208_1226021428 |title=Murder At Altamont |publisher=LiveLeak.com |date=1969-11-28 |accessdate=2012-11-21}}</ref> shocked many Americans,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/On-This-Day--Deaths-at-Rolling-Stones--Altamont-Concert-Shocks-the-Nation.html |title=On This Day: Four Die at Rolling Stones’ Altamont Concert |publisher=Findingdulcinea.com |date= |accessdate=2012-11-21}}</ref> including those who had strongly identified with hippie culture. Another shock came in the form of the [[Sharon Tate]] and [[Leno and Rosemary LaBianca]] murders committed in August 1969 by [[Charles Manson]] and his "family" of followers. Nevertheless, the turbulent political atmosphere that featured the bombing of [[Cambodia]] and shootings by [[National Guard of the United States|National Guardsmen]] at [[Jackson State University]] and [[Kent State University]] still brought people together. These shootings inspired the May 1970 song by [[Quicksilver Messenger Service]] "What About Me?", where they sang, "You keep adding to my numbers as you shoot my people down", as well as [[Neil Young]]'s "[[Ohio (CSNY song)|Ohio]]", recorded by [[Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young)|Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young]].+
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-Much of hippie style had been integrated into [[mainstream]] American society by the early 1970s.<ref name="Tompkins_2001a">{{harvnb|Tompkins|2001a}}.</ref><ref name="Morford">{{Citation+
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- | title = The Hippies Were right!+
- | publisher = [[SF Gate]]+
- | date = 2007-05-02+
- | url = http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/05/02/notes050207.DTL+
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-}}</ref> Large rock concerts that originated with the 1967 KFRC [[Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival]] and [[Monterey Pop Festival]] and the 1968 [[Isle of Wight Festival]] became the norm, evolving into [[stadium rock]] in the process. The anti-war movement reached its peak at the [[1971 May Day Protests]] as over 12,000 protesters were arrested in Washington DC. President Nixon himself actually ventured out of the White House and chatted with a group of the 'hippie' protesters. The draft was ended soon thereafter, in 1973. During the mid 70s, with the [[Fall of Saigon|end]] of the draft and the [[Vietnam War]], a renewal of [[patriotism|patriotic]] sentiment associated with the approach of the [[United States Bicentennial]] and the emergence of [[punk movement|punk]] in London, Manchester, New York and Los Angeles, the mainstream media lost interest in the hippie counterculture. At the same time there was [[Mod revival|a revival of the Mod subculture]], skinheads, [[Teddy Boy|teddy boys]] and the emergence of new youth cultures, like the [[goth subculture|goths]] (an arty offshoot of punk) and [[football casuals]]. Acid rock gave way to [[prog rock]], [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]], [[disco]], and [[punk rock]].+
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-Starting in the late 1960s, hippies began to come under attack by working-class [[skinhead]]s.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://books.google.com/?id=iS4hsxKiMNgC&pg=PA188&lpg=PA188&dq=Hippie+bashing+by+skinheads#PPA189,M1 | title = Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture | isbn = 978-0-415-14726-2 | author1 = Childs | first1 = Peter | last2 = Storry | first2 = Mike | year = 1999 | postscript = .}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eelpie.org/epd_19.htm |title=Eel Pie Dharma - Skinheads - Chapter 19 |publisher=Eelpie.org |date=2005-12-13 |accessdate=2012-11-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,909318-1,00.html | work=Time | title=Britain: The Skinheads | date=1970-06-08 | accessdate=2010-05-04}}</ref> Hippies were also vilified and sometimes attacked by [[Punk subculture|punks]], [[Mod revival|revivalist mods]], [[Greaser (subculture)|greasers]], football [[casual (subculture)|casual]]s, [[Teddy boy]]s, [[rednecks]] and members of other youth subcultures of the 1970s and 1980s. The countercultural movement was also under covert assault by [[J. Edgar Hoover]]'s infamous "Counter Intelligence Program" ([[COINTELPRO]]), but in some countries it was other youth groups that were a threat. Hippie ideals had a marked influence on [[anarcho-punk]] and some [[post-punk]] youth subcultures, especially during the [[Second Summer of Love]].+
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-[[File:Cornflake & Vivian.jpg|thumb|left|Couple attending Snoqualmie Moondance Festival, Aug. 1993]]+
-Hippie communes, where members tried to live the ideals of the hippie movement continued to flourish. On the west coast, Oregon had quite a few.<ref>[http://www.cavejunction.com/cavejunction/locsites2.shtml "In Cave Junction alone there were a number of communes listed"]</ref> Some faded away. Some are still around.+
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-While many hippies made a long-term commitment to the lifestyle, some people argue that hippies "sold out" during the 1980s and became part of the materialist, consumer culture.<ref name="Lattin_2004">{{harvnb|Lattin|2004|pp=74}}.</ref><ref name="Heath_Potter_2004">{{harvnb|Heath|Potter|2004}}.</ref> Although not as visible as it once was, hippie culture has never died out completely: hippies and neo-hippies can still be found on college campuses, on communes, and at gatherings and festivals. Many embrace the hippie values of peace, love, and community, and hippies may still be found in [[Bohemianism|bohemian]] enclaves around the world.<ref name="Stone_1994" />+
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-Towards the end of the 20th century, a trend of "cyber hippies" emerged, that embraced some of the qualities of the 1960s psychedelic counterculture. The hippie subculture is also linked to the psychedelic trance or [[psytrance]] scene, born out of the Goa scene in India.+
 +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 festival]]s, [[sexual revolution|contemporary sexual mores]], and even the [[cyberspace]] revolution.
 +== In film ==
 +*[[Easy Rider]]
 +*[[Petulia]]
 +*[[I Love You, Alice B. Toklas]] (1968)
 +*[[The Trip]]
 +*[[Up in Smoke]] (1978)
== See also == == See also ==
- +*[[Hippie exploitation films ]]
*"[[San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)]]" *"[[San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)]]"
*[[Summer of Love]] *[[Summer of Love]]
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-*[[I Love You, Alice B. Toklas]] (1968)  
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-*[[Up in Smoke]] (1978) 
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"We blew it."


"The hippie dream of peace and love evaporated in the aftermath of the Kent State shootings (May '69), the Manson massacre (August '69), the Altamont murder (December '69), the deaths of Jimi Hendrix (September '70), Janis Joplin (October '70) and Jim Morrison (July '71). It would be another decade before the sexual revolution ended." --Sholem Stein


"It is clear that many hippie leaders became in the 1980s perfect yuppies, including the great leader Jerry Rubin, turned Reagan activist and neo-liberal convinced Republican. In France, Michel Clouscard was the main thinker to have predicted this transformation, seeing in the hippie movement a simple internal crisis of American capitalism, which far from being threatened was to emerge only stronger from these events. He crystallized this idea in his concept of "liberal-libertarian"." --Sholem Stein


"The hippie trail came to an end in the late 1970s with political changes in previously hospitable countries. In 1979, both the Iranian Revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan closed the overland route to Western travelers." --Sholem Stein

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Hippie refers to a subgroup of the 1960s and early 1970s counterculture that found its earliest beginnings in the North American counterculture, becoming an established social group by 1965 before declining during the mid-1970s. The hippie dream of peace and love was shattered in 1970 with the events at Altamont, the Manson murders and the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.

Overview

The hippie (or hippy) subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word 'hippie' came from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into New York City's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The origins of the terms hip and hep are uncertain, though by the 1940s both had become part of African American jive slang and meant "sophisticated; currently fashionable; fully up-to-date". The Beats adopted the term hip, and early hippies inherited the language and countercultural values of the Beat Generation and mimicked some of the then current values of the British Mod scene. Hippies created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and some used drugs such as cannabis, LSD, and psilocybin mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness.

In January 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast.

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.

In film

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