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New Age
New Age a term popularized in the 1980s to describe a wide-ranging set of beliefs and practices that are an outgrowth of the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s in the United States. Adherents of the New Age movement believe that a spiritual era is dawning in which individuals and society will be t... Read more
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard 1943-, American playwright and actor, b. Fort Sheridan, Ill., as Samuel Shepard Rogers 7th. A product of the 1960s counterculture, Shepard combines wild humor, grotesque satire, myth, and a sparse, haunting language evocative of Western movies to create a subversive pop art vision of ... Read more
Woodstock
Woodstock 1 City (1990 pop. 14,353) seat of McHenry co., NE Ill.; inc. 1845. In a grain and dairying area, the city has food processing and produces paper products, medical equipment, machinery, and chemicals. 2 Town (1990 pop. 1,870), Ulster co., SE N.Y., in an area of fruit and dairy far... Read more
Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan , 1935-84, American novelist and poet, b. Tacoma, Wash. He was a counterculture hero of the 1960s and 70s and his work is an indictment of America's cultural environment. Influenced by writers of the beat generation , he exhibits a hippie sensibility in his extremely original and ... Read more
Ken Elton Kesey
Ken Elton Kesey 1935-2001, American novelist and counterculture figure, b. La Junta, Colo.; grad. Univ. of Oregon (1957), Stanford Univ. (1960). While a student he volunteered for a hospital study of mind-altering drugs, substances that were to shape much of his life and work. He also briefly worke... Read more
Taos Pueblo
Taos Pueblo In 1992, Taos Pueblo in New Mexico was admitted to the World Heritage Society as one of the most significant historical cultural landmarks in the world, thereby joining such sites as the Taj Mahal, the Great Pyramids, and the Grand Canyon. For many Native Americans and proponents of N... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Counterculture"

Woodstock
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...of the “ hippie ” counterculture, it did not initiate the counterculture, nor did it mark its end. Nevertheless...Although not fully immersed in the counterculture, they sought to produce a festival that...
Health Foods
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...1981, p. 22). Health Food and the Counterculture The 1960s and 1970s counterculture youth questioned the political and economic...food business recognized a market in the counterculture. Adelle Davis, with books like Let...
Austro-Marxism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...associations that claimed to establish within bourgeois society a counterculture based on socialist values and attitudes, such as solidarity...theoretical level; it was closely connected with the socialist counterculture in “ Red Vienna ” (the socialist...
Comic Books
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...reference to current social issues such as drug use, the counterculture, the different social movements, and racism. The heroes...underground “ comix, ” which reflected counterculture sensibilities and rebelled against the comics code and social...
Drugs (Psychedelic)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...availability of drugs like LSD and marijuana rapidly created a mass counterculture. At the spearhead of the psychedelic revolution were two...and anti-social behavior of LSD users. Leary became a counterculture hero, evading police and imprisonment and preaching a gospel...
Heinlein, Robert A(nson)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...individuality but share a brotherhood of community, made Heinlein and his novel cult objects for young people dedicated to a counterculture. Heinlein continued to publish prolifically other novels, including The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1967), Time Enough...
Nearing, Scott
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...They described their life in Living the Good Life (1954), which became one of the testamentary documents of the 1960s counterculture. The Nearings collaborated on The Maple Sugar Book: Together with Remarks on Pioneering as a Way of Living in the Twentieth...
Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...into eight hundred gay liberation groups by 1973, and thousands by 1979. Inspired by other rights movements and by the counterculture, gay liberationists demanded “gay power” and insisted that homosexuals “come out of the...
Juvenile Delinquency
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...Wild One [1954], Rebel without a Cause [1955], and Blackboard Jungle [1955]), while the protests, riots, and counterculture of the 1960s sparked new concerns. Whether delinquency changed significantly over the twentieth century remains unclear...
Castaneda, Carlos
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...drugs playing a major role in his teachings, Castaneda's writings arrived in tandem with the full flowering of the 1960s counterculture. His influence has proved more durable than that exerted by other writers of the 1960s, however. All his books have remained...

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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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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 .
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...
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 .

Thesaurus entries related to "Counterculture"

underground
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...the underground art scene synonyms : alternative, radical, revolutionary, unconventional, unorthodox, avant-garde, counterculture, experimental, innovative. • adverb   1. the insects live underground synonyms : below ground, in...

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News and Views; Blacks at the "Counterculture Colleges"
Newspaper article from: Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The; 1/31/2004; 700+ words ; ...forefront of what has come to be known as the counterculture movement. Historically the counterculture has been associated with a disdain for...Berkeley was perhaps the first of the counterculture colleges. It was there that the antiwar...
The American Counterculture
Magazine article from: The Journal of American Culture; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; The American Counterculture Christopher Gain Edinburgh University...on elaborations of the American counterculture between the years of 1945 and...was on how the aesthetics of the counterculture were played out in music, fiction...
Kirk, Andrew G.: Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; Kirk, Andrew G. Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog...Andrew G. Kirk's new book, Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog...in an account of one type of counterculture environmentalism. In doing so...
How the Internet got its groove.(From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Issues in Science and Technology; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole...more global view has been missing, and From Counterculture to Cyberculture aims to provide one. From Counterculture to Cyberculture is a timely, thoughtful, and...
Image is everything? Television and the counterculture message in the 1960s.
Magazine article from: Journal of Popular Film and Television; 3/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...larger society, the counterculture. As historian William...the existence of countercultures hostile to the status quo. When those countercultures gain partial acceptance...phenomenon of the 1960s counterculture? Since most in the...
"Can't forget the Motor City" (1): Creem magazine, rock music, Detroit identity, mass consumerism, and the counterculture.
Magazine article from: Michigan Historical Review; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...a critic for the rock-music and counterculture magazine Creem. Writing in 1971...publication devoted to the idealism of the counterculture. Nonetheless, Marsh sought to speak...burgeoning national "psychedelic" counterculture, Marsh mused: "It is part of the...
Contract on the Counterculture;Lay Off, Newt, and Let Us McGoverniks Tend to Our Tie-Dye
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/27/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...25-year veteran of "the counterculture," I wish Newt Gingrich would...burying the legacy of "the counterculture, McGovernik" movement...says, is the "very small counterculture elite, which is terrified...
An institution for the counterculture Museums
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 5/26/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...of Fame at a proposed Museum of the Counterculture.How does he feel about that...but sounding fiery. ''We are not counterculture. We in the East Village are the culture...m very much opposed to this term 'counterculture.'''No wonder Phil Hartman has...
From Hippies to Hackers, How the Counterculture Became the Inspirational Force of a Generation, at National Press Club, Dec. 15
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 12/5/2005; 700+ words ; ...Once considered frivolous, the counterculture is taken very seriously now, as a...What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer," John...a., R.U. Sirius), author of Counterculture Through the Ages join host Christopher...
Middle Tennessee State U. professor examines counterculture
News Wire article from: University Wire; 3/5/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...WIRE) MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- The counterculture revolution of the 1960s, the topic...the sexual and drug revolution. The counterculture revolution was brought about uniquely...and became the third element of the counterculture movement, which brought the hippie...