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 The hippie subculture
was originally a youth
movement that began in
the United States during
the mid 1950's to the
early 1960s and spread
around the world. The
word hippie derives from
hipster, and was
initially used to
describe beatniks who
had moved into San
Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.
These people inherited
the countercultural
values of the Beat
Generation, created
their own communities,
listened to psychedelic
rock, embraced the
sexual revolution, and
used drugs such as
marijuana and LSD to
explore alternative
states of consciousness.
Getting high and
forgetting about the
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 In January 1967, the
Human Be-In in Golden
Gate Park in San
Francisco popularized
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. Hippies
in Mexico, known as jipitecas, formed La
Onda Chicana and
gathered at Avándaro,
while in New Zealand,
nomadic housetruckers
practiced alternative
lifestyles and promoted
sustainable energy at
Nambassa. In the United
Kingdom, mobile "peace
convoys" of New age
travellers made summer
pilgrimages to free
music festivals at
Stonehenge. In Australia
hippies gathered at
Nimbin for the 1973
Aquarius Festival and
the annual Cannabis Law
Reform Rally or
MardiGrass. In Chile,
"Festival Piedra Roja"
was held in 1970
(following Woodstock's
success), and was the
major hippie event in
that country. |
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 Hippie fashions and
values had a major
effect on culture,
influencing popular
music, television, film,
literature, and the
arts. Since the
widespread movement in
the 1960s, many aspects
of hippie culture have
been assimilated by
mainstream society. The
religious and cultural
diversity espoused by
the hippies has gained
widespread acceptance,
and Eastern philosophy
and spiritual concepts
have reached a wide
audience. The hippie
legacy can be observed
in contemporary culture
in myriad forms — from
health food, to music
festivals, to
contemporary sexual
mores, and even to the
cyberspace revolution. |
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