Hippies

Allen Ginsberg

Free love was an important topic. The free love was especially against the establishment. With free love, the look, the modern music and the behaviour they wanted to be the oposite of the brudery of the sociaty in the United States in 1960s. 

Scott McKenzie 1967

Hippies are a youth movement which arise in the 1960s in the United States. Hippies are for peace and love and they demonstrate against wars . They especially demonstrated against the vietnamwar. Hippies were against the establishment. The high point was the summer of love in San Francisco in 1967s. The hippie generation was known as flower childs. 

Hippies listen to folk and psychedelic rock. The songs are sung only with an acoustic guitarre. Hippies liked to listen to singers and bands like Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead, Joe Cocker, Santana und the Who. This singers and Bands also sang at the woodstock-festival(Woodstock music and art festival-3 days of peace and music), which is an openair musicfestival. The festival was 70km away from Woodstock near Bethel. The woodstockfestival visited 400′000 visitors and 32 Bands played there. The music festival was peaceful and many visitors, musician and staff were under the influence of LSD, mescaline and cannabis. 

The motto of hippies are ‘Naturally is beautiful’. The shirts are batik, colorful and have wide sleeves and often the shirts seems to big. The clothes are comfortable and naturally and hippies like to wear bell-bottoms. They often wear sunglasses and frontlets like the boy on the picture and the girls had flowers in theire hair. Hippies also make theire clothes by theireselves. Many female hippies throw away theire bras, to free themselves from all the borders. With the hippie generation started the feminism. 

Song ‘Aquarius’ from Hair