MUAR 392 Lecture 18: MUAR392 Psychedelic Rock Lecture Notes
22 Nov 2016
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Concerned with new ways of experiencing the world: reaction to the normalcy of the 1950s. Influenced by civil rights movement ad reactions against the vietnam war. Emergence of a (cid:272)ou(cid:374)ter(cid:272)ulture suspi(cid:272)ious of i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374)s (cid:894)go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, s(cid:272)hools, (cid:272)hur(cid:272)h"s, big businesses, military, police: more insistent on its separation from adult culture than youth culture of the. New, widespread usage of drugs, especially marijuana and lsd: lsd believed to lead to higher consciousness suppressing false/misleading modes of understanding imposed by school/society. Local psychedelic scene in development since mid 965. Human be in (golden gate park, jan 1967), one of the first major psychedelic events on the west coast, a happening involving poetry, spiritually, and music: attracted media attention, similar events in nyc and la shortly after. Sf hippie scene grew out of beat poetry movement, works by allen ginsburg, jack. Beats referred bebop jazz (eg. charlie parker, dizzy gillespie), hippies favoured rock (eg.
