Amcult Exam 2, Lecture 10 And 11

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nik

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came from both the Soviet Union’s launching of the first man-made earth satellite Sputnik & the Yiddish meaning diminutive, also from the Yiddish “nudnik” meaning a pest

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post war context (3)

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A) It is preferable to marry than to be single. If you were single you had to explain why.

B) It is preferable to be a parent. A couple that did not have children was considered unconventional and had to explain why they didn't have kids.

C) It’s preferable to have more than one child. If you only had one you had to explain why.

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4 results of context

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1) From 1945-1946 the birth rate jumped 19%
2) From 1946-1947 the birth rate jumped by another 12%
3) From 1948-1953 more babies were born than had been
during the previous 30 years… So in 5 years Americans
produced more kids than they had since 1918.
4) 1/3 of our entire population was born between 1946 and
1964.

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technological context (5)

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1) First generation to grow up with television
a) Early television was live - experimental
b) Early television was “smart”
•Sunrise semester
•Meet the author
•Face to Face
•Playhouse 90
•Omnibus
c) Television created the idea of the medium being
the message
d) Television began to destroy the alphabet
e) Television began to create the global village
Print detribalized… tv detribalized

2) The Electric Guitar
a) Changed not only music but the way we
look at performance
•It was loud
•It was cheap
•It was portable
•They were plentiful
•They were mobile
And it was emblematic of conspicuous excess

3) The Transistor Radio
a) small
b) portable
c) cheap
d) private
4) Recording Tape
a) Everyone could record themselves
5) Spaceships

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medical context (2)

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Medical Context
1) The Pill
a) No fear of unwanted pregnancy
b) Gave women complete control over their bodies
c) Resulted in a new perspective on the family
•Women had freedom… could go and do what
they wanted
2) Penicillin
a) Got rid of the fear of disease, especially
Venereal disease

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political context (3)

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Political Context & Hypocrisy
1) Civil Rights:
“…with liberty and justice for all.”
But every night we watched Blacks being
beaten or killed, chased by police dogs, having
fire hoses turned on them, and persecuted
But every day we watched as women were
deprived equal opportunities and we turned into
sex objects
We saw a war beginning that no one understood
2) War
We listened to Eisenhower in his farewell
address say: “Beware the military industrial
complex”

3) The first generation to grow up with the Bomb.

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cultural context (3)

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The Cultural Context
1) Rock and Roll
2) Youth Fashion
3) Psychedelics

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economic context

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The Economic Context
Between 1947 and 1968 the median income in America,
in constant dollars, TRIPLED
What kind of a social results might this have?
Children were no longer needed to supplement the family
income.
What would be the result of this?
For the first time young people 18-24 had enormous amounts
of leisure.
So what did they do with their time?

They went to college.
1) In 1950 only 13% of 18-24 year olds went to college
2) By 1968 there were 31% in college
No one worried about getting a job.
No one was concerned that they needed to be in college to
prepare for a job.
So if you didn’t go to college to find a job, and you have
all the other context we’ve mentioned…what did you do
then?
1) “Find” yourself
2) Play

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play in the mid 60s (4)

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Play in the mid 60s
Playing in a rock and roll band
Having lots of sex
Experimenting with psychedelic drugs
Literally “playing” - reverting to Adler’s lost innocence of
childhood

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space territory

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Space Territory
LSD was territory that was really new.
The Beats had experimented with pot, amphetamines, peyote,
but LSD was new, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III became the
first private individual to manufacture mass quantities of
LSD(which was still legal).
The average dose of street acid today is 25 micrograms, just
barely above the difference between the drug and a placebo,
This is why people can do things like dance or go to a concert
on acid.
In 1964/65 the average dose was around 400-800 micrograms.

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tribal interests

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Tribal Interests
As we said, since school was not a place to be concerned about
a job, the new students, besides drugs, were interested in art,
psychology, pacifism, exotic religions and anything that
stretched the limits of consciousness or the ordinary.

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folkies

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Folkies
Adjacent to, and possibly a subset of the hippies, were the
folkies. These were the bohemian fringe of the folk music
scene.
Folkies saw folk music as a way of life, not as a vehicle for
protest or to be influenced by the British Invasion.
These were people who went south and “rediscovered” the
famous bluesmen of the 1930s, to bring them north and play
the college circuit.
These same people were more interested in keeping traditional
music alive than moving on to new forms.

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3 scenes

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The Scenes
Basically there were three scenes emerging.
1) The folk scene of New York’s Greenwich Village tat
centered around places like Izzy Young’s Folklore
Center, Gerde’s Folk City, Café Wha?,The Gaslight Café
(a holdover from the Beat scene), the Bitter End, and Bob
Dylan and Eric Anderson’s apartments on 4th Street.

2) The Free Speech Movement which grew up at Berkeley
and became the student political center of the U.S.
3) The Hippies, largely centered in the Haight Ashbury
section of San Francisco because of its cheap housing and
proximity to San Francisco State College.

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___________ was continuing its political free speech

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Berkeley

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in 1962 with Leary

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1962
1962 was an important year for Timothy Leary and the burgeoning drug scene. Leary, while vacationing in Ziajuateneco, Mexico, tried psilocybin mushrooms for the first time and returned to Harvard to start IFIF: The International Foundation for Internal Freedom.

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st mime troupe

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Meanwhile, back on the other side of the Bay, theater was getting weird in the Haight with the advent of the San Francisco Mime Troup. Bill Graham got his start managing this group that included such now famous actors as Peter Coyote (real name Peter Cohon) and Howard Hesseman (Dr. Johnny Fever from WKRP in Cincinnatti). Members of the Mime troup would also form The Diggers.

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virginia city, nv

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Virginia City, Nevada
Believe it or not, there was no place to hang, and no place to play music in San Francisco. Some of the members of a community group called the “Family Dog” decided that they wanted a place of their own.
One of their members, Don Works, decided to buy an old saloon in Virginia City Nevada called the Red Dog.

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red dog

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The Red Dog
Works, Chan Laughlin, and Mark Unobsky, all expatriates from San Francisco set to work outfitting the run down Red Dog.
They renovated it to look just like it did in the 1890s, and they dressed accordingly. The men wearing old west clothes, the women/waitresses dressed like old time bar maids.

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charlatans

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The Charlatans
George Hunter, an art student from SF State, whom played no instrument, decided he would start a band. Tired of all American bands copying the Beatles, Hunter decided to make his band look uniquely American. He decided there was only one thing that really typified America:
Old West Cowboys and outlaws.

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impact on SF

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The Impact on SF
Virtually every musician from the San Francisco area came to the Red Dog to see the Charlatans and to “pick up on the vibe.” Mike Ferguson, the Charlatans’ guitarist, was considered by Jerry Garcia to be San Francisco’s best guitarist.
John Cipollina, the guitarist from the Quicksilver Messenger Service said that the Charlatans were his inspiration to become a rock musician.
The “fashion” style that the Charlatans “created” seemed to be the password to the rest of the students and residents of the Haight that it was okay to dress like, and become, whoever you wanted to be. This was seminal in helping create the “hip” style.