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[60] [61] [62] Hippies were also vilified and sometimes attacked by punks, [63] revivalist mods, greasers, football casuals, Teddy Boys and members of other American and European youth cultures in the 1970s and 1980s. Hippie ideals were a marked influence on anarcho-punk and some post-punk youth cultures, such as the Second Summer of Love.
[3] [4] An episode of the PBS documentary series American Experience referred to the Summer of Love as "the largest migration of young people in the history of America". [5] Hippies, sometimes called flower children, were an eclectic group. Many opposed the Vietnam War, were suspicious of government, and rejected consumerist values.
The popular DJ of the genre Goa Gil, like other hippies from the 1960s, left the US and Western Europe to travel on the hippie trail and later developed psychedelic parties and music in the Indian state of Goa, in which the goa and psytrance genres were born and exported around the world in the 1990s and 2000s.
A Four Year Bummer, Champaign, 1969–1970 [1] News from Nowhere, DeKalb; Rising Up Angry, Chicago, 1969–1975; Second City, Chicago; The Walrus, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1968–1973 [15]
The Human Be-In took its name from a chance remark by the artist Michael Bowen made at the Love Pageant Rally. [6] The playful name combined humanist values with the scores of sit-ins that had been reforming college and university practices and eroding the vestiges of entrenched segregation, starting with the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee.
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Columnist David Marcus, writing from Asheville, N.C., says the city's hardcore liberals seem to acknowledge that President Trump can be a lot more help than his predecessor in the wake of ...
A July 7, 1967, Time magazine cover story on "The Hippies: Philosophy of a Subculture", and an August CBS News television report on "The Hippie Temptation", [31] as well as other major media exposure, brought the hippie subculture to national attention and popularized the Flower Power movement across the country and around the world.