Hippie Music Effected Change

Hippie Music

Though hippies have become commercialized everything they touched effected a permanent change in our society which stood against commercialism. Hippie music was no different.

Hippie songs focused their themes on challenging both the mores of the time as well as the perspective. From Bob Dylan to Janis Joplin, across the board those who felt strongly about changing the way things were railed from the stage, some more, some less melodically. They saw injustice everywhere they looked in a myriad of civil rights which most did not enjoy. From the black community to the gay community and women’s rights folks everywhere had a wholesale problem with the way things had been run.

60’s music, and much of the 70’s music which followed, reflected this disenchantment with the established and perfunctory way of doing almost everything.

Hippie music is also considered stoner music because of the many drugs being experimented with by so many of those who both played and listened to music. This reputation has persisted and unfortunately our modern hippie music encourages this activity. The psychedelic hippie music so well known to us today is called that for a reason. The sounds and lyrics were as experimental as the communes.

Hippie bands were aplenty and many concentrated in the now famous Haight Ashbury area of San Francisco. This is where everything was “happening” as they used to say. It became a mecca for the youth of America who hoped that “change was going to come.”

These sort of hippie quotes from the music of the 60s became a language in and of itself among those of that generation and has remained a part of our language.

In many ways this uprising and shift in our society was no less than a renaissance of our own culture effecting change in everything, due in large part to the hippie music, poetry, art and hippie fashion. Ideas disseminated in this way permeate thoughts and feelings that impact more than our conscious being.

Listening to hippie music, in modern times is still evocative of feelings which make you want to rise up and do something about things. It was powerful and effectual.

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1969: San Francisco is the epicenter of all things hip . . . at least according to Tula, a young girl arriving from Canada, obsessed with becoming a flower child, and searching for love in the Haight-Ashbury’s fading counterculture.

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3 days. 3-million people. And memories to last a lifetime.Year: 1970Director: Michael WadleighStarring: Jimi Hendrix, Richie Havens, The Who, Crosby, Stills & Nash, much moreThe three-day Woodstock music festival in 1969 was the pivotalevent of the 1960s peace movement, and this landmark concert film is the definitive record of that milestone of rock & roll history. It’s more than a chronicle of the hippie movement, however; this is a film of genuine historical and social importance, capturing the spirit of America in transition, when the Vietnam War was at its peak and antiwar protest was fully expressed through the liberating music of the time. With a brilliant crew at his disposal (including a young editor named Martin Scorsese), director Michael Wadleigh worked with over 300 hours of footage to create his original 225-minute director’s cut, which was cut by 40 minutes for the film’s release in 1970. Eight previously edited segments were restored in 1994, and the original director’s cut of Woodstock is now the version most commonly available on videotape and DVD.

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