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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, self-centered consumer yuppie culture. [ 108 ] [ 109 ] Although not as visible as it once was, hippie culture has never died out completely: hippies and neo-hippies can still be found on ...
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] Reminiscing about late 1940s Harlem in his 1964 autobiography, Malcolm X referred to the word hippy as a term that African Americans used to describe a specific type of white man who "acted more Negro than Negroes". [7]
[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.
1960s and 1970s hippie slang for the police in Britain, referring to the blue uniforms and inspired by the bad guys in the 1968 Beatles film Yellow Submarine. Blå-blå Norwegian slang meaning "blue-blue", derivative of "popo" and in reference to blue lights and former color of uniform. Bobby
"Turn on, tune in, drop out" is a counterculture-era phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966. In 1967, Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and phrased the famous words, "Turn on, tune in, drop out".
The term originated in the mid-1960s in the wake of a film version of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine that depicted flower-bestowing, communal people of the future in a story characterized by antiwar themes. American political activists like Allen Ginsberg and Abbie Hoffman advocated the giving of flowers as a means of peaceful protest.
The term "Flower Power" originated in Berkeley, California, as a symbolic action of protest against the Vietnam War. In a November 1965 essay titled How to Make a March/Spectacle , Beat poet Allen Ginsberg advocated that protesters should be provided with "masses of flowers" to hand out to policemen, press, politicians and spectators. [ 8 ]
Frodo Lives!" was a popular counterculture slogan in the 1960s and 1970s, referring to the character Frodo Baggins from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings, commonly associated with the hippie movement. The phrase was used frequently in graffiti, buttons, bumper-stickers, T-shirts, and other materials.