An insightful introduction to hippie culture and how its
revolutionary principles in the 1960s helped shape modern
culture. The name came out of jazz slang from the 1940s, but
it’s the psychedelic 1960s that will forever be the era of the
hippie, a time when the counterculture’s ethos of sex, drugs,
and rock 'n' roll and "turn on, tune in, and drop out" gripped
the nation from the East Village to Woodstock to Haight-Ashbury.
This title explores how hippies, and 1960s counterculture in
general, developed and influenced popular culture in America.
Covering the years between 1961 and 1972, this is the first
volume focused exclusively on the emergence, growth, and lasting
legacy of hippie culture, on everything from clothing, hair
styles, and music to attitudes toward sex and drugs, and anti-
war, anti-establishment activism. Hippies includes a chronology,
topical chapters on hippie culture, biographies, primary
documents, and a glossary. Coverage ranges from an examination
of hippie involvement in drug use, polit