Hello! Im just really bored and working on my history paper - on , get this- the 60's counterculture, and I didnt really want to jump in on anyone else's thread..so I decided to make my own. Just post and say hey or something. im dying here.
sweet. would anyone like to hear soem of the papaer? sorry to bore you but i would like to have some peer advice.
ok here's a bit. ill be on later. “That high feeling- when you’re relating to each other as brothers and sisters- that’s the revolution. That’s what’s worth living and dying for.”[1] In an age when musicians’ lyrics cry out for a change, drugs were looked on as a ‘sacrament’, people took fashion to be deadly serious, and free love was, well, free, one might question the lasting impact that such behaviors would have on society. However, as time would have it, the hippie/counterculture movement of the 1960’s has had a bearing on how many people live their lives to this day. Probably the most major influence on culture was and is music. “Music has always been a major form of communication,” ______ said “It’s just that it’s more involved in society now than it was. It’s about what’s happening now.”[2] Music is the one form of communication that bleeds over into all the other aspects of culture. Nothing quite like music can have such a strong effect on someone. As William L. O’Neill states in Coming Apart, “Although children and adolescents watched a great deal of television in the sixties, it seemed at first to have little effect. Surveys were always showing that youngsters spent fifty-four hours a week or whatever in front of the tube, yet what they saw was so bland or predictable as to make little difference. The exceptions were news programs, documentaries, and dramatic specials. Few watched them. What did influence the young was popular music, folk music first, and then rock...” O’Neill then asserts that “The folk-music vogue was an early stage in the politicalization of youth, a forerunner of the counter-culture. This was hardly apparent at the time. Folk music was not seen as morally reprehensible in the manner of rock and roll. It was a familiar genre. Folk music for the most part, and even when sung in protest, did not offend many.”[3] [1] William H. Chafe, The Unfinished Journey (New York, Oxford University Press, 1986) 409. [2] Woodstock, Michael Wadleigh, Warner Bros. Inc., 1970 [3] William L. O’Neill, Coming Apart, (New York, The New York Times Book Co., 1976) 235-236.
my teacher said we could do the report on anything we wanted to, so, being my usual crazy self i picked a subject that was totally me: How the 60's counterculture/hippie movement is still alive today.
im currently trying to do some hw before i go to bed...im actually gonna try to get outta going to school tomorrow, i jus dont freggin feel like it...at all, plus today wasnt a good day and i didnt get to hear from any of my good friends either. darn it, im ranting i feel ya jadis, i have 3 papers due sometime this week (tomorrows thursday, not much left huh), im sleeeepy..
totally...im fallling asleep jsut typing this so i turn up...i think this is Elton John..yea, definately. and other random stuff up really loud on my radio and chug some red bull. damnit. it isnt helping. maybe i should jsut give up hope of getting this done in time for my friend's birthday party. and i just forgot i had a cake in thoven.
