Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A hippie, also spelled hippy, [1] especially in British English, [2] is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, originally a youth movement ...
The hippie subculture (also known as the flower people) began its development as a teenager and youth movement in the United States during the early 1960s til mid 1970s and then developed around the world.
Flower child originated as a synonym for Hippie, especially among the idealistic young people who gathered in San Francisco and the surrounding area during the Summer of Love in 1967. It was the custom of "flower children" to wear and distribute flowers or floral-themed decorations to symbolize ideals of universal belonging, peace , and love .
[3] [4] In the 1970s, Gibson remade his act to appeal to contemporary hippies, and is known as the 'original hippie'. [5] The form hippie is attested in print as jazz slang in 1952, but is agreed in later sources to have been in use from the 1940s. [6]
The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967.As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies, beatniks, and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park.
This is a list of communities known for having a major hippie subculture and/or other forms of alternative lifestyle subcultures. Europe. Germany Settlement ...
The Trucker was known for its counterculture content (its “Legalize Cocaine” issue was one of its most popular) and its cover illustrations.
Other 1960s subcultures included radicals, mods, rockers, bikers, hippies and the freak scene. One of the main transitional features between the beat scene and the hippies was the Merry Pranksters' journey across the United States with Neal Cassady and Ken Kesey, in a psychedelically painted school bus named Further.