Hippies: A Guide to an American Subculture (Guides to Subcultures and Countercultures)

About this book

An insightful introduction to hippie culture and how its revolutionary principles in the 1960s helped shape modern culture. This title explores how hippies and 1960s counterculture in general developed and influenced popular culture in America. Covering the years between 1961 and 1972 this is the first volume focused exclusively on the emergence growth and lasting legacy of hippie culture on everything from clothing hair styles and music to attitudes toward sex and drugs and anti-war anti-establishment activism. Hippies includes a chronology topical chapters on hippie culture biographies primary documents and a glossary. Coverage ranges from an examination of hippie involvement in drug use politics sexual behavior and music and a contemporary perspective on lasting impact of hippies on modern American life. Readers will encounter famous icons of the era from Abbie Hoffman to Timothy Leary while getting a real sense of what life inside the hippie counterculture was like.