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Defining Counterculture
50's Culture
100
Realistic painter of common items of American culture
Who is Andy Warhol?
100
Older, central part of a city with crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, usually minority groups live
What is inner cities?
100
Following World War 2, African Americans and other nonwhite minorities moved in great numbers here
What is cities?
100
Adopted values that ran counter to this
What is mainstream culture?
100
Critics reject this
What is conformity?
200
Popular English rock band
Who is The Beatles?
200
They rebel mainstream life
What is hippies?
200
In 1967, 2000 people flocked here
What is Haight-Ashbury?
200
Popular music choice during this time period
What is rock-and-roll?
200
Critics felt this molded public taste
What is advertising?
300
Small group of writers and artists who critique American society
Who is the beatniks?
300
Lack of communication between older and younger generations
What is generation gap?
300
Was well hidden in rural and urban areas
What is poverty?
300
The center of Counterculture
What is Haight-Ashbury?
300
While material conditions were better, this was not
What is quality of life?
400
Wrote the poem "Howl" and was a part of the Beatniks
Who is Allen Ginsberg?
400
Created to reverse the downward trend in American cities
What is urban renewal projects?
400
Effected mostly African Americans in inner cities, rural whites, and Hispanics in migrant farm labor camps
What is poverty?
400
Time of social changes in human freedom and expression
What is Woodstock?
400
Shapes youth culture
What is music and art?
500
Socialists that wrote "The Lonely Coward"
Who is Nathan Glazer and David Riesman?
500
Small communities where people have common interests and share resources
What is communes?
500
The loss of this hurt cities economically because they paid a large share of taxes
What is the middle class?
500
Also marked by this interest
What is spirituality?
500
One source of discontent during the postwar era
What is failure to provide equal opportunities to minorities?