A general overview of the Hippie movement and Woodstock.

1. The Hippie Movement

2. Hippie Movement
 Youth movement in the US
during the mid-1960s.
 Inherited some
countercultural values ​from
the Beat Generation.
 Important base was San
Francisco, California.
 Actually, the first hippies
were studying in the
university of San Francisco

3. Hippie Movement
 Another key influence was the
American folk music
movement which had a strong
base in Greenwich Village in
New York and Berkeley in
California
 A. Chandler Laughlin III was
the founder of a folk music
concert bar called Red Dog
Saloon.
 In the summer of 1965,
Laughlin recruited much of
the talent that led to
California's unique blend of
traditional folk music and
rock, and started a tour.

4. Hippie Movement
 In January 1967, the ‘Human Be-In’ in Golden Gate
Park in San Francisco popularized the hippie culture,
leading to the legendary Summer of Love on the
West Coast of the United States, and the 1969
Woodstock Festival on the East Coast.

5. Hippie Movement
 The movement itself had neither ideological or
political organization defined, but generally tended
to ideas about libertarian socialism and
environmentalism.

6. Hippie Movement
 The cause that led many
hippies to join the social
protest was the Vietnam
War.
 Some Hippies broadened
their political beliefs and
even set up communes in
the deserts of Western
America.

7. Hippie look
 Both sexes tended
to wear long hair.
 Men had beards.
 Women tended not
to wear a bra or
shave their armpits
or legs.

8. HIPPIE look
 One way to break the
existing social patterns
was something as
simple as wearing pants
at the hip, making the
person look sloppy.
 Therefore, one of the
meanings of the word
hippie, is person who
wears the pants at the
hip

10. Famous Hippies
 Timothy Leary (LSD  Jimi Hendrix
supporter)  Janis Joplin
 Jerry Garcia (Grateful  Jane Fonda
Dead founder)  Joan Baez
 John Lennon (Beatles)  Jim Morrison
 Abbie Hoffman (social  Neil Young
activist)
 Frank Zappa
 Merry Pranksters
 George Carlin
 Beatles
 Cheech and Chong
 Bob Dylan
 Jefferson Airplane

11. The Merry Pranksters
 Led by Ken Kesey
 Book written by Tom Wolfe
called “The Electric Kool-
Aid Acid Test”
 Had a psychedelic bus they
drove across the country to
recruit others
 Used LSD and other drugs
to become „awakened‟
 The Pranksters introduced
the world to The Grateful
Dead.

12. Woodstock

13. Woodstock
 Woodstock (Woodstock. 3 Days
of Peace & Music) is one of the
best-known rock festivals and
most famous Hippie
congregations ever.
 It took place on a farm in Bethel,
New York, on 15, 16, 17 and the
morning of August 18, 1969.
 Few crimes were committed
during the festival, in contrast to
the claims that the festival was
intended as a celebration of
peace and love.

15. A Few Woodstock Bands/Artists
 Ravi Shankar  Jefferson Airplane
 Joan Baez  Joe Cocker
 Santana  The Band
 Grateful Dead  Crosby, Stills, Nash and
 Creedence Clearwater Young
Revival  Jimi Hendrix
 Sly and the Family Stone
 Janis Joplin
 The Who

16. Artists that Cancelled
 Jeff Beck Group (The band broke up in July, forcing
cancellation)
 Iron Butterfly (Stuck at the airport, their manager
demanded helicopters and special arrangements just for
them. Were wired back and told, as impolitely as
Western Union would allow, "to get lost", but in other
'words'.)
 Joni Mitchell (Joni's agent put her on "The Dick Cavett
Show" instead)
 Lighthouse (Feared that it would be a "bad scene".)
 Ethan Brown (Arrested for LSD three days before the
event.)

17. Bands that Declined
 The Beatles (John Lennon said he couldn't get them together)
 Led Zeppelin (Got a higher paying gig at the Asbury Park
Convention Hall in New Jersey that weekend)
 Bob Dylan (Turned it down because of his disgust of the
hippies hanging around his house)
 The Byrds (Turned it down because of a melee during their
performance at the first Atlanta International Pop Festival,
held at the Atlanta International Raceway on July 4 and July
5, 1969
 Jethro Tull (Turned it down because they thought it wouldn't
be a big deal.)
 The Moody Blues were included in the original posters as
performers, but backed out after taking a gig in Paris on the
same weekend.

18. Altamont Free Concert
 Thought to be „Woodstock West‟
 Headlined by the Rolling Stones with Jefferson
Airplane, CSN&Y, Santana
 Grateful Dead pulled out because of increasing
violence
 Security was done by the Hell‟s Angels
 Recommended by the Grateful Dead, paid with $500 of beer
 There was one homicide and three accidental deaths
 4 births though!

20. Decline of the hippie movement
 The events of Altamont and
the Charles Manson case
discredited hippies.
 Parts of the hippie look,
such as the long hair or
flared trousers, became
mere fashion followed by
many young people around
the United States.
 Around 1980, the hippie
look became just a fashion
style.

21.  The press lost interest in this subculture.
 On their part, many former hippies integrated into
the mainstream of thought and social and economic
systems that they previously had rejected.