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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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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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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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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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Recycling
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...term "recycling" was virtually unused outside of industry before the late 1960s when voluntary programs were formed by counterculture communities. The emerging culture of hippies reapplied the age-old practice of collecting and reusing materials. For...
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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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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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Gay and Lesbian Movement
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...protesters. By the late 1960s emerging grassroots gay and lesbian communities embraced the militance and sexual openness of the counterculture. In the wake of the Stonewall riot, "gay liberation" built upon the growing sense of identity within the general climate...
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Health Food Industry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...reexamined as a result of fatalities from tainted hamburgers. BIBLIOGRAPHY Belasco, Warren J. Appetite for Change: How the Counterculture Took the Food Industry, 1966 – 1988. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. Grad, Lauri Burrows...
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