A Midsummer Night's Dream at SDSU
Summer of LOVE
-Purpose & Intent: adolescents were determined to strike a counterculture fighting the US government and the development of a materialistic society
-Driving factors: long hair, brightly colored clothes, free ‘love’ (larger selection of
birth control), uncontrolled substance use
-Began early January 1967 in San Francisco at Golden Gate Park with hope of being a “human be-in”
-More college, HS, and junior high students joined those in G.G. Park during their spring break, and decided to no longer be a “neurotic juvenile” but join the hippies
-Haight & Ashbury became the “community of anti-communities” and housed young adults (approximately 100,000)
-Summer of Love “highlights”: music festivals, poetry readings, speeches, & theater
-June ’67: Monterey Pop Festival with 30,000 in attendance
-“San Francisco” by the Mamas & the Papas became popular
-Hendrix, the Byrds, Otis Redding, & Joplin
-Summer of Love also in LA, Chicago, NYC, Montreal, Seattle, DC, Philadelphia, Portland, Toronto, & Europe
-Highest crime rate for major cities occurred during this summer=dwindle down by Sept.
-Driving factors: long hair, brightly colored clothes, free ‘love’ (larger selection of
birth control), uncontrolled substance use
-Began early January 1967 in San Francisco at Golden Gate Park with hope of being a “human be-in”
-More college, HS, and junior high students joined those in G.G. Park during their spring break, and decided to no longer be a “neurotic juvenile” but join the hippies
-Haight & Ashbury became the “community of anti-communities” and housed young adults (approximately 100,000)
-Summer of Love “highlights”: music festivals, poetry readings, speeches, & theater
-June ’67: Monterey Pop Festival with 30,000 in attendance
-“San Francisco” by the Mamas & the Papas became popular
-Hendrix, the Byrds, Otis Redding, & Joplin
-Summer of Love also in LA, Chicago, NYC, Montreal, Seattle, DC, Philadelphia, Portland, Toronto, & Europe
-Highest crime rate for major cities occurred during this summer=dwindle down by Sept.
Woodstock-summer of '69
-August 15-17, 1969: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair: An Aquarian Exposition aka “Three Days of Peace and Music” in Bethel, NY at Max Yasgurs 600 acre farm
-$18 advance tickets; $24 at the gate
-Youth sees music as a way to embrace alternative lifestyle and protest war
-Planned on 50,000 showing but 500,000 attended
-Harsh conditions: food & water shortage, traffic, lack of restrooms
-Bond grew among the crowd with little violence thanks to sharing in the harsh conditions as well as a want to promote love
-Want to change the world by acceptance of all
-Some bands: Joplin, Sweetwater, the Who, CCR, Grateful Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Crocker, Hendrix
-Declined invitations: Beatles (lennon couldn’t get them together), Led Zepplin (higher paying gig in Jersey), Dylan (hated hippies), Jethro Tull (thought it wouldn’t be a big deal thing), Joni Mitchell (took on t.v. appearance instead)
-$18 advance tickets; $24 at the gate
-Youth sees music as a way to embrace alternative lifestyle and protest war
-Planned on 50,000 showing but 500,000 attended
-Harsh conditions: food & water shortage, traffic, lack of restrooms
-Bond grew among the crowd with little violence thanks to sharing in the harsh conditions as well as a want to promote love
-Want to change the world by acceptance of all
-Some bands: Joplin, Sweetwater, the Who, CCR, Grateful Dead, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Crocker, Hendrix
-Declined invitations: Beatles (lennon couldn’t get them together), Led Zepplin (higher paying gig in Jersey), Dylan (hated hippies), Jethro Tull (thought it wouldn’t be a big deal thing), Joni Mitchell (took on t.v. appearance instead)
