The Counter Culture of the 1960’s and 1970’s

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April 13, 2017

The Counter Culture of the 1960’s and 1970’s

During the 1960s and 1970’s, the United States was undergoing many changes and there were many social movements. Some of these movements were focused on issues such as race, anti-war ideas, feminism, and counter culture. The counter movement was the most remarkable of these movements because it comprises of all the topics combined together. This movement transformed the identity of Americans by means of protests and the desire for reform. America’s identity was reborn through the political, social, as well as cultural impediments. The 1960’s and 1970’s issues of counter culture movement were the fundamental hindrances in attaining the ideals for America’s identity.

Counter culture started with a number of left-wing movements which originated from sociological issues such as The Vietnam War, Free Speech, and Civil Rights. During the counter culture movement, Political protests made the American ideal of politics to be re-fixated around equality and freedom. The yearning for Cultural Revolution during this movement led to the creation of new developments of music, theatre, and art, consequently changing the American ideal of culture. For example, the 1960’s and 1970’s artists painted violent scenes of war, fear, and chaos, reflecting the war period.

The demand for social change during the counter culture movement triggered the conventional American lifestyle to turn into that of a ‘hippie’. There was an emergences of a new social norm was emerging and it was apparent through the attraction to new social activities like music and drugs. The American identity today is what it is because of the counter culture movement as well as the transformation the United States went through during this time.