Counterculture

Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, is one of the well-known novels written in 1951 but later published in 1957, explaining the life of people after the World War II. This novel gives a voice to a new generation known as the Beat Generation who were the counterculture to the culture before World War II in America. The novel provides us readers…

“real music” by some, as its sole purpose is to offend. But as our world changes, I see things in a different light. This is meme culture. Internet dwellers who are so inundated with pop culture and social standards that they rebel and create a counterculture all online. It’s a brave new world, and we get to see its offensive…

making “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” a timeless work of literature. Works Cited Anderson, Walt. The Age of Protest. Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear Pub., 1969. Print. "Brief Analysis Of the Counterculture Movement of the 1960s." DocShare - A New Way to Share Documents Online. Web. 06 Aug. 2011. "Founding of NOW." National Organization for Women (NOW). Web. 06 Aug. 2011. “Joyce Carol Oates." Interview by Razia Iqbal. BBC News - Home.…

Baby Boom: After World War II, birth rates soared as Americans returned from the military. In result, the “baby-boom” created a large cohort of teenagers by the late 1950s and it became the leading edge of a new youth culture. Civil Rights Era: The Civil Rights crusade was led by African Americans and they constituted the majority of its participants. It embraced leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Civil Rights organizations like the NAACP and Black Panthers had different visions,…

Tattooing is an art that has always been under construction. Although it been a contributing part of counterculture, tattooing has also contributed to art history in more ways than one. Once seen as a permanent marking for bikers, criminals, and rejected groups of society has now become a form of expression for everyone ages 18 and above. In America, native american tribes used it as a representation of their cultures and later on sailors and soldiers used tattoos to show where they had been and…

1963 – 1973 A Decade of Disillusion The era that I chose to write about was from 1963 to 1973. I felt that this was the decisively time period in America history. The 60’s were ushered in riding on the coattails of the 1950’s and was felt would carry on the hopes and dreams of the post-WWII economic growth which America was enjoying . The 1950’s ideas of bliss in suburbia with dinner promptly at 6 and of a mother doing housework in pearls were about to be shattered by the events of the…

The Decade of Peace, War, and Everything In-Between 1969 was the era of change by the people, not authority. Authority was questioned in the 60s, and that is why the 1969 cannot be described without it’s predecessors. Conflicts were resolved by the people, government had to shape to the people . The years 1960 to 1969 brought out the best and worst of the United States and society. Politics ruled society in the 60s and America was divided for the majority of the decade because of the chaos of…

Public Opinion of the Vietnam War and its socio-political effects on the United States After the Assassination of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson was inaugurated as the next president of the United States. He began to escalate his bombing campaign on Vietnam, named Operation Rolling Thunder. The casualties that were resulted in this operation were as follows: thousands were dead, missing or captured, hundreds of planes shot down. On the other side there were over one hundred and eighty two…

The early morning hours on June 28th 1969 marked the beginning of a new era for the gay rights movement. The Stonewall Inn, at the time one of the few establishments that openly welcomed the gay demographic, was raided by the police. Subsequently, a riot erupted amongst the arrested crowd – the first time that the gay population had protested a police raid. The incident incited several more violent demonstrations in the following days, which have been famously dubbed as the Stonewall riots. The…

Rock’s first mixed gender and race band: Sly And The Family Stone. Known largely for their sound in the late sixties with as much mixture in their sound as in their band, playing a fusion of soul, rhythm and blues, funk, psychedelia, gospel, and all around high energy music. The band formed in 1967 and had a major hit on Pop and R&B charts in 1968 “Dance To The Music”, but got a much greater fan base after their amazing performance at Woodstock. They played at 3:30 am Sunday morning August 17,…