Synopses & Reviews
Between the years 1965 and 1971 something happened to make the world on one side of that divide all but unrecognizable to the world on the other side. For better or for worse (it very much depends on whom you ask), those seven years revolutionized western and eventually global culture as utterly as any of the great turning points in our history. What happened were the hippies.
Long hair, grass and LSD, free love, rock music and the great festivals from Monterey to Woodstock, antiwar protests and political activism, communes and macrobiotics, spiritual seeking in Eastern religions and personal transformation in therapies and practices from est to gestalt, the first stirrings of the modern environmental and feminist movements: the hippies were defined by virtually everything so-called straight society was not.
Hippie combines hundreds of photographs, a fascinating narrative highlighting all the social and cultural upheavals of the time, as well as quotations from many of the people Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Grace Slick, George Harrison, Wavy Gravy, and many others who lived through and shaped the counter culture. Proceeding year by year, it gives an unprecedented degree of shape and coherence to a time that by its nature is kaleidoscopically bewildering.
For instance, 1965 saw the formation of the key psychedelic rock bands, including the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. In 1966 the Hare Krishna movement was born, and 1967 was the year of the Summer of Love in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury and the release of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In 1968 politics erupted into violent clashes from Paris to Chicago. 1969 demonstrated the possibilities of the communal spirit at Woodstock as well as its limits at Altamont. 1970 was marked by the first Gay Pride marches and the first Earth Day in the U.S. And by 1971, even politicians were wearing their hair down to their collars and many aspects of the hippie way of life, from vegetarianism and organic food to the perpetual quest for enlightenment and self-realization, had taken permanent root in the general community and marketplace.
This book is a sensory delight and a mind expanding trip for those who came of age before and after the hippie years and wonder what that time was really like, and especially for those who were part of the scene themselves and would like to know how their particular experience fits in with everything that the hippies meant and presaged.
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"More an affectionate scrapbook of the psychedelic moment than a trenchant history of the countercultural movement, this collection will appeal primarily to memorabilia enthusiasts." Publishers Weekly
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The celebration of an era, this ultimate, beautiful, illuminating, and really groovy look at the 1960s counterculture is rich in illustrations and filled with the history, politics, sayings, and slogans that defined the age.
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Let your freak flag fly!
Climb on the psychedelic bus with the Merry Pranksters and take the Acid Test....Groove on the streets of Haight-Ashbury during the Summer of Love....Get experienced with Hendrix at Monterey and commune with the mud and 400,000 free spirits at Woodstock....From the mid-60s to the early 70s, the hippie counterculture burst upon the scene in celebration of freedom, love, peace, and the limitless possibilities of sensual and spiritual exploration. Alive with the outrageous personalities and revolutionary upheavals of a time that changed the world, Hippie is trippy and true to the spirit of a time unlike any other. Far out, man!
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New York Times bestseller! Sales phenomenon! Now in an entirely new compact-sized paperback...at a mind-blowing price.Experience the ultimate flashback with this celebration of an era. Rich in illustrations and filled with the history, politics, sayings, and slogans that defined an age, this tribute to the 1960's counterculture is as groovy as it gets. For those who were there, this volume will invoke the spirit of the time. Those who weren't, will wish they had been.
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll; peace rallies and riots in the ghettos; Flower Power, Black Power, and Gay Power; Mothers of Invention and Women's Liberation; Woodstock, Monterey Pop, and Altamont. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times: it all depends on whom you ask. But without a doubt, hippies transformed society. Take a magical mystery tour through this revolutionary period. Every significant moment comes vibrantly alive once again in day-glo psychedelic images, rare portraits of writers and musicians, dynamite poster and album artwork, and photographic records of political events that shook the world. Hundreds of unforgettable quotations come from seminal figures such as Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Grace Slick, George Harrison, and Wavy Gravy.
Proceeding year by year from 1965-1971, Hippie gives an unprecedented degree of shape and coherence to an age of change--from the free-loving flower children of Haight-Ashbery to the student protesters of France--that by its nature is kaleidoscopically bewildering.
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“To turn the shiny pages of ‘
Hippie is to breathe deeply. Here they all are: Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Brian Jones...Bob Dylan and Timothy Leary.”—
The New York Times. “An exuberant collection of photos and essays about the music, politics and fashion that rocked the world-priced for the bohemian budget.”—
Time Out New York. “Capture[s] the drama of the counterculture era.”—
AARP. About the Author
Barry Miles was a central figure in the development of the hippie movement in the UK and has written biographies of Beat generation writers Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac.