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Eugene
city in Oregon, United States
hippie
A hippie (also spelled hippy in British English) is a subculture associated with the counterculture of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. It originated as a youth subculture that began in the United States and spread to different countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and was used to describe beatniks who moved into New York City's Greenwich Village, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon, and Chicago's Old Town community. The term hippie was used in print by San Francisco writer Michael Fallon, helping popularize use of the term in the media, alt
Woodstock Festival
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, southwest of the town of Woodstock. Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted an audience of more than 460,000. Thirty-two acts performed outdoors despite overcast skies and sporadic rain. It was one of the largest music festivals in history and would become the peak musical event to reflect the counterculture of the 1960s.
Pogostemon cablin
Patchouli (also spelled patchouly or pachouli; ; Pogostemon cablin) is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, commonly called the mint or deadnettle family. The plant grows as a bushy perennial herb, with erect stems reaching up to in height and bearing small, pale, pink-white flowers.
Freetown Christiania
autonomous community in Copenhagen, Denmark
free love
social movement that seeks freedom in personal relationships
Summer of Love
mid 1967 social and political phenomenon in San Francisco, California, USA
happening
A happening is a performance, event, or situation art, usually as performance art. The term was first used by Allan Kaprow in 1959 to describe a range of art-related events. <!-- ==Background==
Hair
1967 rock musical; book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado, music by Galt MacDermot
Stranger in a Strange Land
1961 novel by Robert A. Heinlein
lava lamp
decorative lamp with container of bolus in clear liquid, which heats up at the bottom and rises before cooling and falling back to the bottom
Monterey International Pop Festival
three-day concert in California in 1967
hippie trail
overland journey in the 1960s and 1970s from Europe to India and Nepal
paisley
design using droplet-shaped vegetable motifs
Make love, not war
anti-war slogan
flower power
slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and non-violence ideology
Shaggy Rogers
fictional character in Scooby-Doo
flares
thumb|upright|American singer Cher (pictured with [[Sonny Bono) wearing bell-bottomed trousers, 1968]] Bell-bottoms (or flares) are a style of trousers that become wider from the knees downward, forming a bell-like shape of the trouser leg.
Haight-Ashbury
Haight-Ashbury () is a district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. It is also called the Haight and the Upper Haight. The neighborhood is known as one of the main centers of the counterculture of the 1960s.
We're Only in It for the Money
album by The Mothers of Invention
San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
song written and composed by John Phillips, originally recorded by Scott McKenzie and released in 1967
tie dyeing
thumb|An example of a tie-dyed T-shirt thumb|A video about how to tie-dye Tie-dye is a term used to describe a number of resist dyeing techniques and the resulting dyed products of these processes. The process of tie-dye typically consists of folding, twisting, pleating, or crumpling fabric or a garment, before binding with string or rubber bands, followed by the application of dye or dyes. The manipulations of the fabric before the application of dye are called resists, as they partially or completely prevent ('resist') the applied dye from coloring the fabric. More sophisticated tie-dye may
Human Be-In
1967 countercultural gathering in San Francisco, California
Youth International Party
1960s American youth-oriented counter-cultural political party
underground comix
comic genre
Amon Düül
German band and political art commune
The Fillmore
historic music venue in San Francisco, California
Whole Earth Catalog
American counterculture publication
Kommune 1
politically motivated commune in Germany
Fillmore East
former music venue, formerly theatre and cinema, in the East Village, Manhattan, New York City, United States
Radical Faeries
1979 counter-cultural movement
Rainbow Gathering
Type of international community representing Utopian society
Rainbow Family
Counter-culture, in existence since approximately 1970
Template:Hippies
Wikimedia template
July Morning
festival in Bulgaria
boho-chic
thumb|Short floaty skirt, 2005 Boho-chic is a style of fashion drawing on various bohemian and hippie influences, which, at its height in late 2005 was associated particularly with actress Sienna Miller, model Kate Moss in the United Kingdom and actress/businesswoman Mary-Kate Olsen in the United States. It has been seen since the early 1990s and, although appearing to wane from time to time, has repeatedly re-surfaced in varying guises. Many elements of boho-chic became popular in the late 1960s and some date back much further, being associated, for example, with pre-Raphaelite women of the m
Die Hippie, Die
2nd episode of the ninth season of South Park
1960s in fashion
fashion in the 1960s
Youth riots in Switzerland
Opernhauskrawalle (Opera House riots) is the Swiss German term generally used for the youth protests at the end of May 1980 in the Swiss city of Zürich, a municipality in the Canton of Zürich. Also called Züri brännt ("Zürich is burning"), these events marked the 'rebirth' of the alternative youth movement in Switzerland in the 1980s. thumb|upright|Burning of the so-called Böögg on occasion of [[Sechseläuten in 2013, not the youth protests but the same site at Sechseläutenplatz.]]
Fillmore West
historic rock and roll music venue in San Francisco, California, USA
Diggers
community anarchist group
Kulturzentrum Bremgarten
Self-managed social and cultural centre in the town of Bremgarten, Aargau, Switzerland
Mantra-Rock Dance
1967 counterculture music event
Going Up the Country
song by Canned Heat
flower child
synonym for hippie
Deadhead
thumb|upright=1.1|A Deadhead school bus conversion A Deadhead or Dead head is a fan of the American rock band the Grateful Dead. The Deadhead subculture originated in the 1970s, when a number of fans began traveling to see the Grateful Dead in as many shows or festival venues as they could. As more people began attending live performances and festivals, a community developed. The Deadhead community has since gone on to create slang and idioms unique to them.
Nambassa
Nambassa was a series of hippie-conceived New Zealand festivals held from 1976 to 1981 on large farms around Waihi and Waikino in the Waikato. They were music, arts and alternatives festivals that focused on peace, love, and an environmentally friendly lifestyle. In addition to popular entertainment, they featured workshops and displays advocating alternative lifestyle and holistic health issues, alternative medicine, clean and sustainable energy, and unadulterated foods.
Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival
event held in California
San Francisco Oracle
underground newspaper
The Farm
intentional community in Lewis County, Tennessee
back-to-the-land movement
agrarian movement advocating a self-sufficient farming lifestyle
Turn on, tune in, drop out
Phrase and book attributed to Timothy Leary
freak scene
cultural scene and subculture that was part of the hippie movement in California
Hog Farm
intentional community
Frodo Lives!
motto text
Jhochhen
street in Kathmandu, Nepal
Further
Ken Kesey's Merry Band of Pranksters' 1960s cross-country archetypal hippie-bus