AMCULT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Body Painting, Sitar, Day Tripper
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Government plans to flood portion of the grand canyon for a reservoir. Radioactive material mistakenly sprayed on american soil. Government plans to make lsd and dmt illegal. Draft-aged boys escaped to canada with help of quakers to avoid the draft. Beatles becomes existential (wisdom and heaviness): nowhere man, day tripper . Beatles used cello on yesterday, sitar on norwegian wood . Sf rock scene grows, 2+ ballroom performances/week. Light shows and bands got better, more professional. Poster artists began creating artwork: changed how we looked at the world. Audience began contributing more: wearing costumes, body painting. Hippies and psychedelic underground: deal with reality by transcending reality via drugs. Meanwhile: velvet underground (nyc) and andy warhol were big flops. Haight scene being up; velvet scene being down (heroin, nothingness, perversion) What did the beats and hippies not have in common: beats rejected stuff , hippies were surrounded by it posters, belts, incense .
