Unit 10: Vietnam & the

1970s
Lesson 2: Culture of the 1960’s
EQ: How did these cultural trends go against the
mainstream?
Youth Culture
● Spirit of Rebelliousness:
object to "The Man"
● "Counter-Culture":
hippies; free love &
drug use (Weed,Acid),
against the mainstream
and conformity
● Angered by
government's
indifference toward
poverty and social
problems (LBJ $)
● Protested interracially
for Civil Rights
26th Amendment
● In 1971, the voting age is
lowered to 18 b/c of
Vietnam.

● “If you’re old enough to die

for your country, you’re old
enough to vote for who’s
sending you”
 Anti-Vietnam War
● Vietnam War Veterans
● Young men burned draft cards
● Mass protests
 Music
● British Invasion: The Beatles, The
Who, The Rolling Stones,
● Hippies-influenced by the Beats,
refused to comply with societal norms,
rebelled against the existing social order
● held sway over Youth Culture
○ Fashion went against traditional
styles, long hair.
● Early 1960s: Motown Sound featuring
African American artists like The
Supremes, The Temptations, and
Sam Cooke
● Bob Dylan: crosses rock n' roll with folk
music
● Woodstock: 400,000+ Hippies show up
for music festival
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Video Analysis
Art
● Jackson Pollock: "action
painter," abstract
expressionism
● Andy Warhol: Pop Art, focus
on mass-produced/marketed
consumer culture
Influence of the beats
● Rebelled against the
conformity of their
generation
○ early form of the
counterculture
● inspired the hippies
○ Hippies more political
and have brighter
clothing
● Both were against
consumerism and