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Age of Aquarius http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9oq_IskRIg start at :30. 50s = malt shops and sock hops 60s = sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll. Associations / images with “hippie” Hippie speak :
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Age of Aquarius • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9oq_IskRIg start at :30
50s = malt shops and sock hops • 60s = sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll
Associations / images with “hippie” • Hippie speak: • hip, flower power, far out, groovy, right on, out of sight, freak out, bummer, let it all hang out
San Francisco: Human Be-In • A “happening” in San Francisco in January 1967 to protest banning of LSD. Timothy Leary set tone with “Turn on, Tune in, Drop out”. • Crystallized key ideas of ’60s counterculture: personal empowerment, communal living, ecological awareness, higher consciousness (often via psychedelic drugs), and liberal politics. • Merged together dissatisfied students, beat generation poets, and jazz hipsters: all who rejected middle-class normalcy. • “Be-In” = clever wordplay based on “sit-ins” and “teach-ins”
“San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)” by John Phillips (of The Mamas and Papas) All across the nation such a strange vibrationPeople in motionThere's a whole generation with a new explanationPeople in motion people in motionFor those who come to San FranciscoBe sure to wear some flowers in your hairIf you come to San FranciscoSummertime will be a love-in there If you're going to San FranciscoBe sure to wear some flowers in your hairIf you're going to San FranciscoYou're gonna meet some gentle people thereFor those who come to San FranciscoSummertime will be a love-in thereIn the streets of San FranciscoGentle people with flowers in their hair http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bch1_Ep5M1s
San Francisco: Summer of Love • Summer of Love and gay rights movement made San Francisco the center of liberal action. • Haight-Ashbury district became “ground zero” of American counterculture and introduced the word “psychedelic” to suburbia. • The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held in June `67 • 1st first widely-promoted and heavily-attended rock festival • first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix and The Who. • Became the model for future music festivals, notably Woodstock two years later.
“California Dreamin’” you know the preacher likes the coldhe knows I'm gonna stayCalifornia Dreamin'on such a winter's dayif I didn't tell herI could leave todayCalifornia Dreamin'on such a winter's day all the leaves are brownand the sky is greyI've been for a walkon a winter's dayI'd be safe and warmif I was in L.ACalifornia Dreamin'on such a winter's daystopped into a churchI passed along the waywell, I got down on my kneesand I pretend to pray http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3GbF9Bx6E 2:30
Age of Aquarius • Each astrological age is approximately 2,150 years long. • Currently shifting into the "Aquarian Age“ - true fellowship of humankind • The expression Age of Aquarius refers to peak of hippie and New Age movements of 60s and 70s. • ‘67 musical Hair, with its song “Aquarius" and the memorable line “this is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius", brought the idea to audiences worldwide. • “peace will guide the planets, and love will steer the stars.” • Hair’s songs became part of anti-war movement. • Controversial because of depiction of drugs, a nude scene, racially integrated cast, and audience onstage for “Be-In” ending.
“Going up the Country”Canned Heat I'm going up the country, baby don't you wanna goI'm going to some place where I've never been beforeI'm going where the water tastes like wineWe can jump in the water, stay happy all the timeI'm gonna leave this city, got to get awayAll this fussing and fighting, man, you know I sure can't stayNow baby, pack your leaving trunk, you know we've got to leave todayJust exactly where we're going I cannot say, but We might even leave the USA 'Cause there's a brand new game that I want to playNo use of you running, or screaming and crying'Cause you've got a home as long as I've got mine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0Dm-OaTNk start at 0:20; stop at 2:20
WoodstockCrosby, Stills, Nash & Young By the time we got to WoodstockWe were half a million strongAnd everywhere there was song and celebrationAnd I dreamed I saw the bombersRiding shotgun in the skyAnd they were turning into butterfliesAbove our nationWe are stardustBillion year old carbonWe are goldenCaught in the Devil’s bargainAnd we’ve got to get ourselvesBack to the garden I came upon a child of godHe was walking along the roadAnd I asked him, where are you goingAnd this he told meI’m going on down to Yasgur’s farmI’m going to join in a rock n roll bandI’m going to camp out on the landI’m going to try an get my soul freeWe are stardust, We are goldenAnd we’ve got to get ourselvesBack to the gardenThen can I walk beside youI have come here to lose the smogAnd I feel to be a cog in something turningWell maybe it is just the time of yearOr maybe its the time of manI don’t know who l amBut you know life is for learningWe are stardustWe are goldenAnd we’ve got to get ourselvesBack to the garden
“Long Time Gone”Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young It's been a long time comin'It's goin' to be a Long Time Gone.And it appears to be a long,long, long time before the dawn.Turn, turn any corner.Hear, you must hear what the people say.You know there's something that's goin' on around here,The surely, surely won't stand the light of day.Speak out, you got to speak out against the madness,You got to speak your mind, If you dare.But don't now try to get yourself electedIf you do you had better cut your hair.But you know,The darkest hour is always just before the dawn. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9JA9YbHKzw stop at 2:45
Grateful Dead Immortal and remarkable. Refused to let their counterculture dreams fade. Has there ever been a rock group with such enduring fan devotion? They converted the masses by keeping the Summer of Love spirit alive for 3 decades through non-stop touring and endless jamming.
Jam Band Festivals • Annual festivals of jam bands attract 10,000s to rural areas in summertime. • “Jam band circuit (modeled after Grateful Dead) represents a hippie dream to a generation born after the 1960s, promising communal spirit and, often, chemically enhanced fun ... plenty of tie-dyed shirts and songs about love, peace and cosmic thoughts.” • Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, Umphrey’s McGee, Phish, Allman Brothers Band, Gov’t Mule http://maplewoodstock.com/
27 Club(“Forever 27 Club” or “Curse of 27”) • Coincidence with popular musicians who all died at the age of 27 • Often a result of "precipitous lifestyles that made them candidates for early self-destruction” • Robert Johnson, Brian Jones, JimiHendriz, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
Robert Rauschenberg’sThe White Paintings Four canvases that reflected a viewer’s shadow and took on a different shade, depending on the time of day and the quality of light. “A canvas is never empty.”
John Cage and 4’33” Cage was mesmerized by Rauschenberg, calling his paintings “airports of lights, shadows and particles. The White Paintings inspired Cage to write 4’33”, his most notorious composition, which has the performer sit still for 4 minutes and 33 seconds and then leave. The “music,” which changed with every performance, consisted of the sounds off stage: people coughing or ruffling their programs, horns honking outside. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJagb7hL0E The idea for both Rauschenberg and Cage was to break down the barrier between art and raw reality.
Alfred Kinsey U.S. biologist and professor of zoology `47 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University. His research on human sexuality, provoked controversy in the 1940s and 1950s, and is regarded as enabler of the sexual revolution of the 60s The Kinsey Reports -- starting with the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948, followed in 1953 by Sexual Behavior in the Human Female -- reached the top of bestseller lists and turned Kinsey into an instant celebrity.
Sexual Revolution • Henry Miller: writer who challenged cultural values and moral attitudes • Publication of his Tropic of Cancer in U.S. led to obscenity trials that test laws on pornography • ’64, Supreme Court ruled against the charges of obscenity • Represented one of the notable events of the “sexual revolution”
