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Counterculture
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
COUNTERCULTURE COUNTERCULTURE. A stratum of American and western European culture that began...The mainstream media sometimes referred to members of the counterculture as "hippies," "freaks," or "flower children." The counterculture...
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counterculture
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
coun·ter·cul·ture / ˈkountərˌkəl ch ər / • n. a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm.
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San Francisco
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...strike of 1934, to its place at the center of the 1960s counterculture, and today's large gay and lesbian communities, which...Francisco: Heritage House, 2001. Bob Batchelor See also Counterculture ; Gold Rush, California ; Golden Gate Bridge and vol...
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Black Atlantic
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...emergence of modernity, modern ideas of race, and the Black Atlantic as, in his words, "a counterculture of modernity." By a counterculture of modernity, Gilroy refers to the varied ways in which people of African descent responded to...
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Nolte, Nick
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Moriarty's trafficking is a gesture of disgust; he creates a mess he cannot clean up. Nolte, harking back to a pre-counterculture style of self-reliant heroic alienation, takes responsibility regardless of fault. He is sick of being pushed around...
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Southern, Terry
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...1996. Obituary in Sewanee Review, Summer 1996. New Yorker, 22 June 1998. * * * Terry Southern's place in the sixties counterculture pantheon rests on decidedly slim ground when it comes to the movies, despite working on two of the decade's most influential...
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Artists' Colonies
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Europe and America. Oxford: Paidon, 1985. Classic text. Rudnick, Lois Palken. Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Sarah Schrank
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Hippies
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Ashbury: A History. New York: Vintage Books, 1985. Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. Rick Dodgson See also Antiwar Movements ; Counterculture ; Youth Movements .
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Organic Farming
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...permanence. Thus, organic farming found many adherents in the late 1960s and the 1970s among both antitechnology members of the counterculture and environmentally concerned consumers. Synthetic agricultural chemicals, which had become a staple in U.S. agriculture...
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Woodstock
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...York: Doubleday, 1989. Spitz, John. Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969. New York: Viking, 1989. Rick Dodgson See also Counterculture ; Music Festivals ; Music Industry ; Rock and Roll .
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