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A hippie, also spelled hippy, [1] especially in British English, [2] is someone associated with the counterculture of the mid-1960s to early 1970s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States and spread to different countries around the world. [3]
[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.
[citation needed] The idea of the Human Be-In was born of a fear that the movement would be erased due to tensions between factions of the Hippie movement. [citation needed] Bowen writes "The anti-war and free speech movement in Berkeley thought the Hippies were too disengaged and spaced out. Their influence might draw the young away from ...
As members of the hippie movement grew older and moderated their lives and their views, and especially after US involvement in the Vietnam War ended in the mid-1970s, the counterculture was largely absorbed by the mainstream, leaving a lasting impact on philosophy, morality, music, art, alternative health and diet, lifestyle and fashion.
According to lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower, the terms hipster and hippie derive from the word hip and the synonym hep, whose origins are disputed. [1] The words hip and hep first surfaced in slang around the beginning of the 20th century and spread quickly, making their first appearance in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1904. At the time ...
PLAYBACK: Mark Beaumont asks if the legendary hippie music festival was really a ‘blueprint for a new society’ or as ‘shambolic, profit-driven and violence-marred’ as the attempt to do it ...
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.
The song was a popular hit, reaching number 4 on the music chart in the United States and number 1 in the United Kingdom and most of Europe, [8] [9] and became an unofficial anthem for hippies, flower power and the flower child concept.