MUSC 2018 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Stevie Wonder, Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Hippie
16 Jan 2016
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About a kid living in poverty, can"t get a job due to racial discrimination. Strong political message that isn"t trying to downplay or soften it, presented very directly. Horns and singing dynamic, horns then singing etc. Optimism, belief that new ways of living could change the world. Free love (more open to sexuality, accepting of birth control pills), pacifism, communal living, non western religions. San francisco, especially haight-ashbury area absolute hub for the movement. Lsd (lysergic acid): legal, considered beneficial in creating new state of mind, until 1966 impacts the music and people: used as a form on biological warfare, military was using it, only outlawed when it became mainstream. Alarmist tv news story, the hippie temptation , 1967. Believed they were achieving a state of being through the use of drugs. Hippies were generally the middle class who apparently had potential but became a hippie instead .
