'60s and early '70s to a movement embraced by the mainstream in the later part of the 20th and early 21st centuries, and to answer the questions: How did counterculture writers and thinkers--by way of literature, social and political activism, philosophy--make the shift into the mainstream ...
From there, magic mushrooms became inextricably tied to the hippie movement and its search for a new form of spirituality for the rest of the decade. For years, mushrooms were mostly associated with the counterculture [source: Harvard University]. But these days, magical fungi are finding ...
How did Ken Kesey influence American counterculture? How does Hesse use paradox in Siddhartha? What were Jon Krakauer's credentials for writing Into the Wild? What does Thoreau strive for in Walden? How did Ken Kesey influence society?
Starting in the 1960s, gin lost some of its glamour. The counterculture movement dismissed classic gin cocktails as their grandfather's booze. And upwardly mobile "Mad Men" types embraced theJames Bondcool of the vodka martini. Chances are if you grew up in the 1970s and 1980s and had yo...
The Origins Of The Christian Music Industry Singing has long been part of many Christian traditions, but contemporary Christian music (CCM) has its roots in theJesus movementof the 1960s and 1970s. With acoustic guitars and long hair, "Jesus freaks" brought their...
Question: How did Irving Berlin contribute to the American culture of the 1920s? Irving Berlin: American composer Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was one of the great songwriters of the twentieth century. His works are considered part of the (unofficial) Great American Songbook. One of his...
Cybernetics is “deeply inter-twingled” (to borrow Nelson’s magical phrase) with the early development of personal computers, the 1960’s counterculture, and the rise of the design methods movement, which has enjoyed a recent rebranding as “design thinking.” ...
The fact that a newspaper published in Harlem, New York City could impact a British regiment in Italy speaks to the power of Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic Counterculture of Modernity Thesis. Just as social media and the internet connect like minded groups throughout the world, so did Marcus ...
John Markoff, a former technology correspondent for The New York Times, wrote about the early experiments inWhat the Dormouse Said, his book on the relationship between the 1960s counterculture and the PC industry. He is a sceptic, believing that LSD was not a “magic pill” that made the...
After several years of dramatic jumps, gasoline prices fell slightly in 2013 to the same absolute price as 2011. A key reason for this movement towards lower prices was an increase in domestic oil production within the United States. In October of 2013, Americaproduced more oil domesticallythan...