FLOWER CHILDREN AGAINST WAR: THE HIPPY MOVEMENT Peace, Love and Freedom In the 1960s USA a new movement appeared among young people. They rejected mainstream society and social habits, believed in the power of love, wore unusual clothes, had long hair, took both legal and illegal drugs and e...

Jimi Hendrix asks in his song Purple Haze, "Am I happy or in misery?" This theme broadly defined the political and social unrest throughout the nation in 1969. The baby boomers in the late 1960's adopted a "hippie" culture which personified the music of the time and the concept of "sex, drug...

"It is America's music – born out of a million American negotiations: between having and not having; between happy and sad, country and city; between black and white and men and women; between the Old Africa and the Old Europe – which could only have happened in an entirely new...