Counterculture of the 1960s | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-07

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00:03:07 1 Background
00:03:16 1.1 Post-war geopolitics
00:05:42 1.2 Social issues and calls to action
00:08:26 1.3 Emergent media
00:08:35 1.3.1 Television
00:09:37 1.3.2 New cinema
00:10:40 1.3.3 New radio
00:11:08 1.4 Changing lifestyles
00:13:58 1.4.1 Emergent middle-class drug culture
00:15:08 1.5 Law enforcement
00:16:41 1.6 Vietnam War
00:17:32 1.7 In Western Europe
00:20:05 1.8 In Eastern Europe
00:22:59 1.9 In Australia
00:23:53 1.10 In Latin America
00:26:36 2 Movements
00:26:45 2.1 Civil Rights Movement
00:27:24 2.2 Free Speech
00:28:13 2.3 New Left
00:33:24 2.4 Anti-war
00:34:45 2.5 Anti-nuclear
00:36:30 2.6 Feminism
00:37:49 2.7 Free school movement
00:37:59 2.8 Environmentalism
00:40:12 2.9 Producerist
00:41:17 2.10 Gay liberation
00:42:05 3 Culture and lifestyles
00:42:15 3.1 Hippies
00:46:03 3.2 Marijuana, LSD, and other recreational drugs
00:48:18 3.2.1 Psychedelic research and experimentation
00:52:06 3.2.2 Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
00:54:15 3.2.3 Other psychedelics
00:54:57 3.3 Sexual revolution
00:55:50 3.4 Alternative media
00:56:35 3.5 Alternative disc sports (Frisbee)
00:57:26 3.6 Avant-garde art and anti-art
01:01:33 3.7 Music
01:14:45 3.8 Film
01:20:58 3.9 Technology
01:21:53 3.10 Religion, spirituality and the occult
01:27:17 4 Criticism and legacy
01:37:27 5 Key figures
01:38:43 6 See also



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The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s. The aggregate movement gained momentum as the Civil Rights Movement continued to grow, and would later become revolutionary with the expansion of the US government's extensive military intervention in Vietnam. As the 1960s progressed, widespread social tensions also developed concerning other issues, and tended to flow along generational lines regarding human sexuality, women's rights, traditional modes of authority, experimentation with psychoactive drugs, and differing interpretations of the American Dream. Many key movements related to these issues were born or advanced within the counterculture of the 1960s.As the era unfolded, new cultural forms and a dynamic subculture which celebrated experimentation, modern incarnations of Bohemianism, and the rise of the hippie and other alternative lifestyles, emerged. This embracing of creativity is particularly notable in the works of British Invasion bands such as the Beatles, and filmmakers whose works became far less restricted by censorship. In addition to the trendsetting Beatles, many other creative artists, authors, and thinkers, within and across many disciplines, helped define the counterculture movement.
Several factors distinguished the counterculture of the 1960s from the anti-authoritarian movements of previous eras. The post-World War II "baby boom" generated an unprecedented number of potentially disaffected young people as prospective participants in a rethinking of the direction of the United States and other democratic societies. Post-war affluence allowed many of the counterculture generation to move beyond a focus on the provision of the material necessities of life that had preoccupied their Depression-era parents. The era was also notable in that a significant portion of the array of behaviors and "causes" within the larger movement were quickly assimilated within mainstream society, particularly in the US, even though counterculture participants numbered in the clear minority within their respective national populations.The counterculture era essentially commenced in earnest with the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963. It became absorbed into the popular culture with the termination of US  ...