The Hippie Philosophy

Los hippies fueron parte de la contra-cultura de los ´60s, que se manifestaron a través  de eventos como el Summer of Love y el festival de Woodstock. No solo era una moda hippie sino que además practicaban una filosofía de vida, con la aceptación de conceptos prevalentes en India. La filosofía de los hippies influyó a Los Beatles que influyeron en los demás grupos musicales y en otras expresiones del arte. Los hippies rechazaron a las instituciones establecidas, los valores de la clase media, se opusieron a las armas nucleares y a la guerra en Vietnam, enarbolaron la revolución sexual, fueron vegetarianos y promovieron el uso de drogas como forma de expandir el subconsciente. A continuación algunos párrafos en inglés más hipster, Herb Caen, Human Be-In, y New Left para saber un poco más.

Hippie fashion and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts.

Hippie culture spread worldwide through a fusion of rock music, folk, blues, and psychedelic rock.

Hippies opposed political and social orthodoxy, choosing a gentle and nondoctrinaire ideology that favored peace.

A hippie (sometimes spelled hippy) is a member of the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and was used to describe beatniks who moved into New York City's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The term hippie first found popularity in San Francisco with Herb Caen, who was a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle.

In 1967, the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, and Monterey Pop Festival popularized hippie culture, leading to the Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States, and the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the East Coast.

Hippie fashion and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, mainstream society has assimilated many aspects of hippie culture. The religious and cultural diversity the hippies espoused has gained widespread acceptance, and their pop versions of Eastern philosophy and Asian spiritual concepts have reached a larger audience.

María Muldaur, con un pañuelo estilo gitano y aros grandes, 1969

The hippie ethos influenced The Beatles and others in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe, and they in turn influenced their American counterparts. Hippie culture spread worldwide through a fusion of rock music, folk, blues, and psychedelic rock; it also found expression in literature, the dramatic arts, fashion, and the visual arts, including film, posters advertising rock concerts, and album covers.

Along with the New Left and the Civil Rights Movement, the hippie movement was one of three dissenting groups of the 1960s counterculture. Hippies rejected established institutions, criticized middle class values, opposed nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Eastern philosophy, championed sexual liberation, were often vegetarian and eco-friendly, promoted the use of psychedelic drugs which they believed expanded one's consciousness, and created intentional communities or communes. They used alternative arts, street theatre, folk music, and psychedelic rock as a part of their lifestyle and as a way of expressing their feelings, their protests and their vision of the world and life. Hippies opposed political and social orthodoxy, choosing a gentle and nondoctrinaire ideology that favored peace, love and personal freedom, expressed for example in The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love". Hippies perceived the dominant culture as a corrupt, monolithic entity that exercised undue power over their lives.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, novelist Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters lived communally in California.

In April 1963, Chandler A. Laughlin III established a kind of tribal, family identity among approximately fifty people who attended a traditional, all-night Native American peyote ceremony in a rural setting. This ceremony combined a psychedelic experience with traditional Native American spiritual values; these people went on to sponsor a unique genre of musical expression and performance at the Red Dog Saloon in the isolated, old-time mining town of Virginia City, Nevada.

Some of the earliest San Francisco hippies were former students at San Francisco State College who became intrigued by the developing psychedelic hippie music scene. These students joined the bands they loved, living communally in the large, inexpensive Victorian apartments in the Haight-Ashbury. Young Americans around the country began moving to San Francisco, and by June 1966, around 15,000 hippies had moved into the Haight.

On October 6, 1966, the state of California declared LSD a controlled substance, which made the drug illegal. In response to the criminalization of psychedelics, San Francisco hippies staged a gathering in the Golden Gate Park panhandle, called the Love Pageant Rally, attracting an estimated 700–800 people.

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Teach Your Children

Crosby, Stills & Nash performing at Live Aid in front of 100,000 people in the John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia USA on the 13th July, 1985.

Para saber

Hipster o hepcat, se refiere a los aficionados al jazz, en particular al bebop, que se hizo popular en los ´40s. El hipster adoptó el estilo de vida del músico de jazz, incluyendo la forma de vestir, de hablar, el uso de marihuana y otras drogas, una actitud relajada, un humor sarcástico, pobreza auto impuesta y costumbres sexuales relajadas.

Herb Caen (/kæn/; 1916–1997) fue un periodista de San Francisco cuyas columnas de chimentos locales y acontecimientos políticos aparecieron en el San Francisco Chronicle por casi 60 años.

Human Be-In fue un evento que tuvo lugar en San Francisco's Golden Gate Park Polo Field, en 1967. La frase combina los valores humanísticos con las sentadas que habían estado reformando las prácticas en las universidades contra la segregación.

New Left fue un amplio movimiento en los ´60s y ´70s, que consistió en activistas que hacían campaña a favor de las luchas sociales, el feminismo, los derechos de los homosexuales, los derechos al aborto y las reformas a las políticas contra las drogas.

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