MU121 Chapter 7: Chapter 7 MU121.docx
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Summer of 1967 are often referred to as the summer of love. Psychedelic music and culture began in the regional underground scenes of london and san. Francisco in the 1950s and were well established by the end of 1965. The summer of love does not mark the beginning of psychedelia per se, but rather its breakthrough into mainstream popular culture. The doors of perception: ken kesey, timothy leary, and the lsd. The psychedelic movement was concerned with exploring new ways of experiencing the world. Teens in the 1950s were the first to experience a youth culture that could be clearly distinguished from adult culture, but the counterculture that emerged in the 1960s was much more assertive in this separation. Drugs played a central role in the new worldview that many young people were seeking. Lsd was developed accidentally by a swiss scientist while he was working on a cure for migraine headaches.
