Woodstock Festival

Recently I discovered a new love for speaking to and learning about the lives and opinions of other people. I had been involving myself in more quality conversations with anyone from teachers to relatives, and each discussion left me wanting to replicate it with as many people as possible, but how would I incorporate this love into something useful? Fortunately, this discovery tied perfectly to an option on the list of ideas for my History 104 final project. For this reason, I chose to…

Counterculture Revolution of the 60s What do you know about hippies? Are they just dirty, smelly drug addicts or is there more to them than their stereotypes? The Counterculture Revolution of the 1960s paved the way for the new ideals and social interests of American society. The late 60s and early 70s are considered a time of confusion to most but, many of today’s mainstream culture is a result of the Counterculture revolution. The 50s was a time of great prosperity but also great conformity.…

In the 1960s there was a lot going on in the United States. For Example, the Vietnam war, civil rights protests, and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Even the people of the United States changed. The hippie movement was created due to the conflicts in the 60s and this includes the vietnam war. Hippies were different from society, they dressed differently and valued different customs. Many people from the older generation disliked hippies because of their…

Before the Tet Offensive, the U.S government was encouraging patriotism and telling Americans that the South Vietnamese and the American soldiers were winning. Even after press released images and videos of the Tet Offensive, the government was desperate to cling to any form of public support, according to Charles Kaiser in the book, 1968 in America, “Just four days after Tet began, [President] Lyndon Johnson called the enemy's military effort a complete failure”(Kaiser, 79). Even after seeing…

I conducted my in-person interview with my father, David, who is 64 years old. He was born in 1951. He grew up in the little town of Racine, Wisconsin. My father refers to Racine as being more decent than Santa Monica, California. He lived there for five to ten years upon finishing college, and he felt that the people there were superficial. Furthermore, my father was the middle child, and he has two brothers. While being interviewed, he informed me that his family was customarily exposed…

people fought for flower power. In addition, music was a huge aspect of the 60s. Typically a mix of folk and rock, and it was used for protests in the sake of peace. Many youngsters learned to play antiwar songs on the guitar and attended music festivals called love-ins. This here is a…

Jimi Hendrix was born on November 27th, 1942 as Johnny Allen Hendrix at Seattle’s King County Hospital. James Marshal, as he was later renamed by his father, had an early curiosity in music and began drawing influence from the major artists of the time. As a little kid, Jimi would sit on the edge of his bed, listening to music and “strumming” the broom like a guitar. Once James, his father, found out about this behavior, he gave his son an old one string ukulele to strum on instead. By the…

rave parties transformed into incredible music festivals. Some of the biggest EDM festivals are Tomorrowland, Ultra, Electric Daisy Carnival and Electric Zoo. These festivals last for three consecutive days, with over 100,000 new attendees each day. It is a massive gathering of people from all over the world. Many EDM fans spend all the money they have worked tremendously hard for to experience the state of…

time was known as the “hippie culture”. Drugs, sex and rock and roll was often used as a slogan to describe this musical decade. Music festivals were very popular during this time. Some of the most famous rock festivals were Woodstock and the Newport Folk Festival. America fell in love with rock music largely due to the fact of the atmosphere at these music festivals. People were very interested in music during this time and Queen’s hit single emerged just at the right moment. Queen went to a…

the Vietnam War and is where the presidents felt the most opposition from. Media did use many other tactics to show their opposition to the war. Just as the United States government was using Uncle Sam to get support of the war, anti-war posters gained popularity during the time of the Vietnam War. Posters which said “draft beer, not students” and “girls say yes to boys who say no” quickly appeared all over college campuses, streets and public areas. The poster that said “girls say yes to boys…