And we got to the 60's.
profound changes continue to happen in the second half of the twentieth century.
As we saw in previous article, the television was one of the most important event in the 50's.
Now, in the 60's comes a decade full of changes, including:
Hippie movement,
Women's liberation,
sexual revolution,
The struggle against ethnic discrimination, among others.
And many of these events led to a great reaction to the profound changes that had produced World War II in society and culture.
The Hippie movement was truly exceptional. They say that began in the U.S. city of San Francisco Youth, in a clear protest against the status quo (system social time), was revealed. "No to war," We just want peace and love. This movement was full of color, was one of its most representative. The colorful clothes, decorations for cars, houses, walls, graffiti, etc, was the actual. As shown, the photo illustrating this article. And that's multicolored their actions were a result of a drug that more was present in those years: LSD, which caused large colorful hallucinations among users of it. This was deniminado colorful "psychedelic." A major
Hippies of Venezuela was the Cappy Donzella, who produced a show, if I remember correctly, in the Parque del Este, which led name: PSICOTOMIMETRICA EXPERIENCE. Remember?
Hippie movement did not want more wars. At that time, U.S. was waging a war against Viet Nam War, which cost a lot of lives of young Americans and of course, Vietnamese. A U.S. war lost from the start, it faced an entire people. Viet Nam was divided into two parts, North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Millions of young people were sent to the war and a high percentage died in it. The company protested, fathers and mothers begged for an end to that war. The Hippie movement was declared anti-war. "NO A LA GUERRA" "PEACE AND LOVE" were his watchwords. LET'S MAKE LOVE AND NOT WAR.
Another movement that emerged almost in parallel was: sexual revolution. The young and not so young began to proclaim to all the winds of free love. All this against the tenets laid down in those years where everything that had to do with sex was "Taboo" All these social movements of those years were consistently demolishing a large number of paradigms that existed about sex. Luckily
also in those years, he invented the contraceptive pill. Of course, as was new and like all beginnings are slow, this pill was having success with the passing of years, therefore pregnancies were not wait.
and other social movement of that time was women's liberation. Women began to demand a place in the prevailing patriarchal society of that time.
As we can see, the 60's were very moved by great social changes which gave a 180-degree global society.
Among the best known representatives of these movements, in the musical arts are: The Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, etc.
These social events "dragged" to speak in some way, to another, which came very strong at the time: THE FIGHT AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. Cassius M. Clay that is, Mohamad Ali, the great heavyweight boxer of the 60s and 70's was one of the most notorious spokesmen at the time. Another, Dr. Martin Lutther King, who gave one of the most moving speeches in defense of African American ethnicity "I HAVE A DREAM." This cost him his life.
The Black Panthers, The Black Power, black radical group began JOINING noted, began to demand equal rights, leading to heavy fighting in many U.S. cities "Blacks" were considered less than citizens, were a lower class and therefore did not have many rights in this great country.
Ok, until the next article.