|
The summer of 1967 forever changed American culture.
It was a summer of anti-war protests, peace movements, love, flowers, drugs and rock and roll.
It became known as the “Summer of Love.”
Fifty years ago, thousands of people gathered in San Francisco, California.
They heard new music by groups that went on to write songs that are still famous today.
And they protested the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, saying, “make love, not war.”
Dennis McNally was the long-time publicist for the Grateful Dead. The band started in San Francisco in 1965.
He helped put together a new exhibit called “On the Road to the Summer of Love”
at the California Historical Society in San Francisco.
The exhibit is part of the city's 50th anniversary celebration of the Summer of Love.
McNally says two big things led to the Summer of Love:
psychedelic drugs and rock music.
The psychedelic drug of choice was LSD, also called acid.
It causes people to hallucinate-- to see things that seem real, but are not.
And rock and roll? He says the 1964 introduction of The Beatles helped start the rock “revolution.”
"She loves you yah, yah, yah..."
San Francisco has a tradition of being open to new ideas and different lifestyles.
Fifty years ago, it was not today's costly, high-technology center.
Housing costs in the 1960s were low in “the Haight”-- the neighborhood around Haight and Ashbury streets.
In January of 1967, bands and poets threw a party called the “Human Be-In.
” Around 50,000 people went to the event, held in Golden Gate Park. Psychologist Timothy Leary,
who supported the use of LSD, repeated his famous line to the young crowd.
“Turn on. Tune In. Drop out.” The saying was about taking LSD, tuning into one's self,
and dropping out of the mainstream lifestyle of the time.
When American media began covering what was happening in San Francisco, young people
from all over the country started coming to the city by the thousands.
Many of them were high school- or college-aged, McNally explains.
Suddenly, San Francisco became one big social experiment. It also became “hippie central.”
Bright colors were everywhere. Pictures, posters, clothes, and even houses and cars,
were painted in new bright psychedelic colors and patterns.
Hippies -- both the men and the women - had long, flowing hair.
They wore “love beads” around their necks. The women wore flowers in their hair.
They desired peace instead of war.
Area musicians who once played quiet folk music started playing electric instruments -- loudly.
People experimented with new ways of living, too.
They lived in groups called communes. They shared housing, money, food and sex.
Such experiments became known as the “counter-culture.” And they changed the way young people lived.
“It was genuinely a challenge to American mainstream thinking about materialism
and how you are supposed to live your life.”
Grace Slick says they didn't call it socialism, but “more or less” it was.
They lived together and tried to help each other.
Women's rights
In the summer of 1967, the women's equal rights movement was about to take off.
She says that many women wanted a different life from the one their mothers lived
in the conservative 1950s America.
"So a lot of us look at it and went, 'too flat. Let's make it a little more interesting.'
And in our each individual way that's what we were trying to do.”
Also in the summer of 1967, the Vietnam War was raging.
More than 480,000 American soldiers were fighting in Vietnam.
That year, over 11,000 of them were killed in action.
Dennis McNally says many of the movements and ideas
that began 50 years ago in the Summer of Love still live on today.
"
첫댓글
내가 물코 수술한후,
다음 달이, 한달 반 되는 날이다.
이번 목요일에, 병원예약날이라,
언제부터, 술한잔할 수 있는 지 물어볼 예정입니다..ㅎ
롯데월드 5층에 있는,
Cafe Hard Rock 을 우리 회원들과
다음달에 구경코자 한다.
# 그리고, 사진중에 두개는 ,
작년 12월 27일날에,
대학로 한 라이브카페에서,
망연회을 주체하여,
약 40 명이 참가하였다.
Sometime on the next month, I am scheduled to go to SFO/ LAX ...
If you are goinging to Sanfrancisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair..
When somebodies tell me about Sanfrancisco I always remind of Scott Mckenzie's Sanfrancisco.. ㅎ
SFO is very beautiful and colourful city , with many styles
of the artists ...
and also the investment area / center are located in sun valley , 90 miles from SFO...
삭제된 댓글 입니다.
그때 당시에는 기성세대들에 대한 저항심이
많이 있었죠,,
새로운 시대의 정신이 일어나고,
그에 따른 문화/ 음악이 생기고..
음악/ 문학들도,
정반합에 의하여
발전하는 가 봅니다...