The Counterculture
In the 1960's, young people questioned America's materialism and cultural and political norms, much as they've always done. Seeking a better world, some used music, politics, and alternative lifestyles to create what came to be known as the counterculture. Americans in that era faced many controversial issues-from civil rights, the Vietnam War, nuclear arms, and the environment to drug use, sexual freedom, and nonconformity.The counterculture lifestyle integrated many of the ideals and indulgences of the time: peace, love, harmony, music, mysticism, and religions outside the Judeo-Christian tradition. Meditation, yoga, and psychedelic drugs were embraced as routes to expanding one's consciousness.
The movement, greeted with enormous publicity and popular interest, contributed to changes in American culture. A willingness to challenge authority, greater social tolerance, the sense that politics is personal, environmental awareness, and changes in attitudes about gender roles, marriage, and child rearing are legacies of the era.
Some children of the sixties counterculture dropped out and left the cities for the countryside to experiment with utopian lifestyles. Away from urban problems and suburban sameness, they built new lives structured around shared political goals, organic farming, community service, and the longing to live simply with one's peers.As part of a spiritual reawakening, some members of the counterculture rejected drug use in favor of mind and spiritual expansion through yoga, meditation, and chanting.
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair made history. It was, depending on one's point of view, four days of generosity, peace, great music, liberation, and expanding consciousness, or four days of self-indulgence, noise, promiscuity, and illegal drug use.
Woodstock enabled thousands of middle-class young people to experience the communal spirit. For the first time, these young people felt empowered by their numbers. Politicians and manufacturers in the music and clothing industries took note of the potential of a growing youth market.
Americans were moved by the Vietnam War, racial injustice, fear of nuclear annihilation, and the rampant materialism of capitalist society. Many were inspired by leaders such as John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Small groups staged sit-ins at schools, local lunch counters, and other public facilities. Masses gathered in the nation's cities to protest what they saw as America's shortcomings.Many members of the counterculture saw their own lives as ways to express political and social beliefs. Personal appearance, song lyrics, and the arts were some of the methods used to make both individual and communal statements. Though the specifics of the debates were new, arguments for personal freedom, free speech, and political reform go back to the foundations of American society.
1. What were some common values that were shared among members of the counterculture?
2. How did the counterculture represent a change compared to American life during the 1950s?
1. American citizens moved to the counry side of the country to find a better livin becaus ethey beileved that militarism was not the answer to their problems, and also the government was not effeactive. they all loved ideas like music, and peace.
ReplyDelete2. the counterculture created a change in America because in the city life was limited to people, they all had office jobs lived in buildings. but now that they are moving into the country side they can farm, fullfill the American dreamof owning a house. Sin cultures are intergrating new customs will develop from the sharing of ideas.
Luis Amequita
1. The counterculture stood against the traditional values, and manifested its rebellion in several ways. Some did so through music, politics, and alternative lifestyles to pursue the idea of the counterculture. Peace, love, harmony, music, mysticism, and the practice of different religions became important aspects of one's lifestyle as well. The youth of the 1960s and 1970s were basically embodying their consciousness in a new way, where they were able to reflect freedom of speech, equality, and the pursuit of happiness.
ReplyDelete2. The counterculture represented a change to American life compared to that of the 1950s. The people of this era without hesitation were willing to form groups and organizations to protest at their own risk. Specifically, the youth were taking this opportunity to an advantage. Rather than remaining in suburban areas, they left for more adventure near the countryside. Unlike protesters of the 1950s, the youth of the 1960s and 1970s spoke out for what they believed in.
-Rebecca Ramdeholl, Pd. 5
1. Some common values that members of the counterculture shared was seeking for a better world. They want to expand consciousness and wanted peace and love to spread. They are into harmonies, mysticism, and things out of their norms. They sometimes go against established laws and have different perspectives on issues at that time period.
ReplyDelete2. Counterculture represented change from the American life during the 1950s because students would drop out and move to the rural areas. The reason is because they want to leave the problems with living in cities and wanted to have a new lifestyle. They did things that would "reawaken" their body and mind. Some used drugs and the ones who refused, used other methods like yoga, meditation, and chanting.
~Jennifer Wu
Among the members of the counterculture they shared some common value such as seeking for a better world, some used music, politics, and alternative lifestyles to create what came to be known as the counterculture. People at the starting of counterculture faced many controversial issues-from civil rights, the Vietnam War, nuclear arms, and the environment to drug use, sexual freedom, and nonconformity. People are willing to ntegrated many of the ideals and indulgences of the time: peace, love, harmony, music, mysticism, and religions outside the Judeo-Christian tradition. Meditation, yoga, and psychedelic drugs were embraced as routes to expanding one's consciousness. Many members of the counterculture saw their own lives as ways to express political and social beliefs.
ReplyDeleteCounterculture represent a change by people willing to challenge authority, greater social tolerance, the sense that politics is personal, environmental awareness, and changes in attitudes about gender roles, marriage, and child rearing are legacies of the era. People also built new lives structured around shared political goals, organic farming, community service, and the longing to live simply with one's peers. Creating what they called Woodstock Music and Art Fair which allows thousands of middle-class young people to experience the communal spirit. For the first time, these young people felt empowered by their numbers. -Angela Chen
1. Members of the counterculture believed in peace , love , harmony , and religions outside the traditional judism and catholic . They felt that through different methods of spiritual reawakenings , they would expand consciousness and grow tolerant to things around them .
ReplyDelete2. During the 1950's , America was going through a rough patch . With the fear of a possible nuclear attack , alongside mixed feelings about the Vietnam war and the racial injustices , the counter culture felt it was time to show a change . They had the willingness to challege political authority , improve social tolerance , and increase environmental awareness . They sang with lyrics asking for personal freedoms , dressed in controversal ways , and acted like young people in america had never acted before .
Michelle Velez
Pd 05
1. Some common values that were shared is the idea to challenge authority, greater social tolerance, the sense that politics is personal, environmental awareness, and changes in attitudes about gender roles, marriage, and child rearing are legacies of the era.
ReplyDelete2.The counterculture represent the new era, where everything that was not favored was challenged. It was the age for not being traditional and doing as pleased. This compared to the 1950's is very different because in the 50's alot of actions were talked but never fullfiled. Also in the 50's many were very traditional and never really rebelled but in this new era that was common.
-Jazmine Hamlet
1)Common values that were shared amongst members of the counterculture were, peace, love, harmony, music, mysticism, and religions (that weren't in the Judeo-Christian tradition). They felt that everyone deserved to be free and that equality was important. While some took psychedelic drugs and practiced yoga, "some members of the counterculture rejected drug use in favor of mind and spiritual expansion through yoga, meditation, and chanting." There was also a lot of sex involved in the remembrance of the time.
ReplyDelete2) The people who made up the counterculture in the 1960's were straying away from what their ancestors had conformed to a few years earlier. Most stress was placed on the pursuit of love and harmony than education. Children started dropping out of school to leave the cities and start new lives in a less populated area. They enjoyed just being in the company of other people like them, people who shared their ideals. While their ancestors would have stressed their continuing education, they thought nothing of leaving.
-Victoria Bastidas
1) Many new ideas emerged during this period.Some common values that were shared among members of the counterculture was peace, love, harmony, music, mysticism, and religions/tradition, meditation, yoga, and illegal drugs.
ReplyDelete2) Many people were willing to change and try new things to change the world. Because of the counterculture, many views as well as new ideas and beliefs were created. Compared to 1950's, it lead people to having more freedom.
-Hannah Lee
1) The common values that were shared among members of the counterculture peace, love, and harmony. Many wanted to change American culture and challenge authority. They wanted people to change their outlooks on gender roles and marriage.
ReplyDelete2)The counterculture was able to represent change campared to American life during the 1950s because many teenagers dropped out of school and moved to the suburb to avoid urban conflicts. The counterculture expressed their opinion and thoughts in a non violent way. Instead they used their appearance, music, and art to exoress their political and social beliefs.
-Cindy Yam
Some Counterculture values included drug use, meditation, yoga and sexual freedom. They valued these along with many other things because they believe in spiritual & mental expansion. They felt it was important to expand ones mind and challenge the norms of society's values and morals.
ReplyDeleteIn the 1950's the culture was more conservative and valued education and morals. The counterculture represented change because the went against these values of the 1950's. They were nor conservative, used many drugs, and many had droppped out of school. They tried to challenge all the morals of society af go against them.
-Ciara Diaz
Members of the counterculture, felt strongly about personal freedom, having a good time,freedom of expression, and most importantly just the idea of what he country has become. It was not however until the late 60's that a mass of support begin to crowd.
ReplyDeleteLife during the 50's was very conformist, things and ideals were the same, car, house, family, work, these things were
considered the "american dream" and for a while many Americans had it, it wasn't until the youth began revolting, the mentality of the 50's had long been forgotten, in that way the counterculture represented a change in life during the 1950's
-Mark Muratov
1. Some common values that were shared among members of the counterculture were love, peace, outside religious traditions and of course, the use of drugs for their ideology.
ReplyDelete2. American life during the 50's were based on the state of mind that America was in due to the world problems that we were involved with. In the 60's this counterculture lead to an expansion of thinking outside of the daily routine. This lead to more ideas about lifestyles and to indulge in your freedom.
-Dowin Torres p5
1. During the time of the counter culture in the 1960's, the members valued peace, love, harmony, music, mysticism, and religions outside the Judeo-Christian tradition. They were also against war and what was thought to be the norm back then, which was to go to college, have a career and a family. They opposed conformity and embraced meditation, yoga, and psychedelic drugs.
ReplyDelete2. The counter culture represented change because they opposed everything that was considered the norm back in the 1950's which was to receive an education, have a career and a family. They wanted to be free and and be surrounded by their peers, which shared common ideas with one another such as organic farming and community service. They also experimented with drugs such as LSD and marijuana which wasn't as common before the counterculture.
-Camilo Jimenez
1) Some common values that were shared among members of the counterculture were seeking for a better world, to change others minds about the world and society. These people believed in peace, love, harmony, music, mysticism, and religions outside the Judeo-Christian tradition.
ReplyDelete2) The counterculture represented a change compared to American life during the 1950's by young teens expressing how they feel freely, exposing good music, meditating and a different perspective or point of view from life in the 1950's.
-Karina Lara
1. Some common values would be seeking a better world. and alternative lifestyles. Also children of the sixties dropped out and left the cities for the countryside to experiment with utopian lifestyles. Woodstock was also a common value among members of the counterculture.
ReplyDelete2.The 1950s were more conservative with family values on respect for tradition, belief in the system. Whereas the 1960s American life changed, young people questioned America's materialism and cultural political norms.
Purna Talukder period 5
Nigel.Nembhard The CounterCulture Was A very strange culture that was really popular in the 60s it represented a time when people believed that every conflict could be solved with Love and Peace. The Counter culture had many Common values shared among each other for example each hippie believed that war was an instrument of the Government they also believed that america had become very Materialistic. The Hippies had an idea of Love Over War. American life in the 1950s Was very simple and premeditated the 60s was a time of unexpected events. The 50s was more clean cut and planned out every family was doing the same thing the 60s was a time of change.
ReplyDelete1. Some common values that were shared among members of the counterculture were the same believes. their believe against the government. They also share music and also ways to relief stress with drugs and to have a war free, non racist and a united nation.
ReplyDelete2. The Counterculture represents changed compared to American life in the 1950's because in the 1950 you were suppose to be in school and have a good job, also have a family and live well as people call it the American Dream. The counterculture didn't believe in all of that they just wanted the world to be peaceful.
- Kevin Gamarra
1.Common values that were shared among members of the counterculture were peace, love, harmony, music, mysticism, and religions outside the Judeo-Christian tradition. To further one's consciousness,the methods of meditation, yoga, and drugs were ways of relaxation. As part of a spiritual reawakening, some members of the counterculture rejected drug use in favor of mind and spiritual expansion through yoga, meditation, and chanting.The people that seek to live a utopian lifestyle shared political goals, organic farming, community service, and the longing to live simply with one's peers.
ReplyDelete2.Americans in that era faced many controversial issues-from civil rights, the Vietnam War, nuclear arms, and the environment to drug use, sexual freedom, and nonconformity.Counterculture represented a change compared to American life during the 1950s because people had a willingness to challenge authority and greater social tolerance.Some felt that politics should come with privacy.Environmental awareness increased and there were changes in attitudes about gender roles, marriage, and child rearing.
-Chatwadee Kumchumnan
Period 5
1) Members of the counterculture faced many issues from civil rights, the Vietnam War, nuclear arms, and many other things. The people who believed in counterculture valued music and beliefs outside of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Many more people practiced meditation and yoga and rejected drug use in order to obtain relief. Members challenged authority and had different attitudes about gender roles and marriage as well. Counter cultured people lived life around their shared political goals, organic farming, and community service.
ReplyDelete2) The counterculture represented a change compared to American life during the 1950's in that there was more spiritual expansion during the counterculture era. People did not abuse drugs and thought of meditating and performing yoga more often. The youth market was growing since they started taking more interest in communal spirit. Many members saw their lives as ways to express political and social beliefs as well.
- Navjeet Kaur - Pd 5
1) The counterculture had same common values which were peace, love, harmony, music, mysticism, and religions outside the Judeo-Christian tradition. Meditation, yoga, and psychedelic drugs were embraced as routes to expanding one's consciousness. These things were popular back in the 60's. Some of these things changed the way people think about politics, marriage, gender roles, and the way of life.
ReplyDelete2) Counterculture represented change compared to the 1950's by giving people the freedom of life. Freedom to speak. Freedom to think. This was really important, because in the 1950's people really didn't have this freedom. They didn't have anything. This gave them more ways to express there feelings such as songs, social beliefs, and arts. This was a good way to good change for freedom.
philip hwang pd 5
1) Some common values that were shared among the counterculture were strong beliefs in peace and harmony. This culture felt that through music and meditation unity can be brought throughout the world.
ReplyDelete2) The counterculture represented great change from the 1950s to the 1960s because it went against much of what was considered acceptable by society. Strives for freedom and self peace were being made as opposed to one common goal in the American Dream. -Max Benyaminov