FACHARBEIT aus dem Fach Englisch Thema: The Hippie Movement Verfasser: Florian Kunkel florian_kunkel@web.de 1. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 2.5. Introduction The Times‚ They Are A-Changing – The Fifties and early Sixties Increasing affluence Rising dangers Growing radicalisation New culture He was a friend of mine - the early Sixties 1 1 1 2 2 3 5 7 3. If you’re going to San Francisco… The Hippie Movement 3.1. Hippie philosophy 7 7 8 3.1.1. New culture of living 3
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Music is all around us. We all grew up listening to some type of music. No one can really determine when music began or which cultures had music first. There are stories of its origins that go back to ancient times. "Popular music is music produced for and sold to a broad audience."(1) The types of popular music we are going to look at are jazz‚ country-and-western music‚ rhythm-and-blues music (R&B)‚ rock music‚ and rap‚ also know as hip-hop.(1) First‚ we will look at jazz. Jazz is a type of music
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“Recitatif” is a story about Twyla and Roberta; two characters of different race that accidently meet every couple of years. From the onset of the story‚ Morrison introduces the story with a racist thought from Twyla‚ stablishing the story’s main topic is race. The story in general is to get the reader to contemplate on the significance of the story. She does this by never unveiling the race of either character. Instead she uses various social codes to help the reader identify the race of each
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Life of a Traveling Blues Artist The life as a traveling musician is one often looked upon as a life of ease‚ fame‚ and wealth‚ but can it really be what it seems? There are many difficult struggles to overcome‚ especially in the life of a blues performer‚ and as a fellow blues guitarist‚ this topic felt like something that would be easily relatable in countless ways. It is important to become informed and educated about the difficulties‚ hardships‚ requirements‚ and joys of becoming‚ and sustaining
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“Woodstock Music Festival; An Aquarian Exposition: Three Days of Peace and Music”. The festival was held on a dairy farm in Bethel‚ New York (Rosenberg‚ 2014). It involved 32 iconic rock and psychedelic musicians and bands of the time‚ including Jimi Hendrix‚ Janis Joplin‚ and The Who (Historic U.S. Events‚ 2012). Woodstock embodied the hippies and formed a more promising outlook on political change. It improved the social optimism in America and kept people optimistic that change really could happen
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The 60s was a legendary era for Music. Many British bands were born that later went on to become iconic‚ but the whole scene was born out of a need for something new and exciting as the new generation refused to conform to their parent’s idea of having a good time. Blues musicians became very popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s. British blues soon became a distinct genre‚ and rock and roll‚ rockabilly‚ rhythm and blues and other forms of popular music mixed in the UK‚
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Hippies‚ sex‚ drugs‚ and rock and roll. These are some things that might come to mind when you think about the counterculture movement of the 1960s. But although it may seem that way‚ the 1960s was not just one giant party. It was a radical social‚ political‚ and cultural movement that changed America and much of the Western world. It consisted of students‚ anti-war protestors‚ political figures‚ social activists‚ environmentalists‚ civil rights movement leaders as well as famous musicians and was
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The Sixties were an exciting revolutionary period of time with great social and technological change. Some people called it the "decade of discontent" because of the race riots in Detroit and La‚ and the demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Other people called it the decade of "peace‚ love‚ and harmony". It was called this because of the peace movement and the emergence of the flower children. (Britannica) The sixties were about assassination‚ unforgettable fashion‚ new styles of music‚ civil
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fervent believer in the “Domino Theory” and intended to contain communism. This situation was one of the elements that would lead to people’s dissatisfaction and fear‚ and to many contestations through popular means‚ like music‚ for example‚ with Jimi Hendrix. The Port Huron Statement written in 1962 is one of those movements raised to show this disillusionment many people were feeling in the 1960’s. It is the manifesto of the American activist movement Students for a Democratic Society‚ which was written
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Kristopher Smilko English Comp. Jan. 31‚ 2013 The guitar is over 3‚300 years old‚ as noted on Wikipedia‚ and it is still one of the most want to learn instruments out there today. There are 19 different types of guitars‚ but these 19 different types are grouped into 2 main groups‚ acoustic and electric. Some people would argue‚ because there is not a group for acoustic electric guitars‚ which is obviously a little of both of these groups. Electric guitars‚ introduced in the 1930s‚ rely on an
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