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This article refers to the summer of 1967. For the film of a similar name, please go to My Summer of Love. My Summer of Love ( 2004) is a British film written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. For the Beach Boys song, see Summer of Love (song). Not to be confused with the B-52's song of the same name " Summer of Love "

The Summer of Love refers to the summer of 1967, when an unprecedented gathering of as many as 100,000 young people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, creating a phenomenon of cultural and political rebellion. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, US, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury Streets The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city While hippies also gathered in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, and across Europe, San Francisco was the epicenter of the hippie revolution,[1] a melting pot of music, psychedelic drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, and politics. The Hippie Subculture was originally a Youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The Summer of Love became a defining moment of the 1960s, as the hippie counterculture movement came into public awareness. Counterculture (also " counter-culture " is a sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a Cultural group, or [2]

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Early 1967

Inspired by the Beats of the fifties, who declared themselves independent from the authoritarian order of America, the Haight-Ashbury 'anti-community' rested on a rejection of American commercialism. Haight residents eschewed the material benefits of modern life, encouraged by the distribution of free food and organized shelter by the Diggers, and the creation of institutions such as the Free Clinic for medical treatment. The Diggers were a radical community-action group of Improv actors operating from 1966-68 based in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. A free clinic is a medical facility offering community Healthcare on a free or very low-cost basis in areas where there is no universal provision for healthcare [3] Psychedelic drug use became but one means to find a 'new reality'. Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir comments,

'Haight Ashbury was a ghetto of bohemians who wanted to do anything—and we did, but I don't think it has happened since. The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bob Weir (born Robert Hall Weir, October 16 1947 is an American singer songwriter and guitarist most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead Yes, there was LSD. But Haight Ashbury was not about drugs. It was about exploration, finding new ways of expression, being aware of one's existence. ' [4]

The prelude to the Summer of Love was the Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967, which was planned by the Diggers as a "gathering of tribes". The Human Be-In was a Happening in San Francisco 's Golden Gate Park, the afternoon and evening of January 14, 1967. Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco California, is a large Urban park consisting of 1017 acres (4 Events 1129 - Formal approval of the Order of the Templar at the Council of Troyes. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. [5] The event was announced by the Haight-Ashbury's own psychedelic newspaper, the San Francisco Oracle. The Oracle of the City of San Francisco, also known as the San Francisco Oracle was an Underground newspaper published from September 20 1966

"A new concept of celebrations beneath the human underground must emerge, become conscious, and be shared, so a revolution can be formed with a renaissance of compassion, awareness, and love, and the revelation of unity for all mankind. "[6]

The gathering of approximately 50,000 like-minded people made the Human Be-In the first event that confirmed there was a viable hippie scene. [7]

Popularization through media and music

The ever-increasing numbers of youth making a pilgrimage to the Haight-Ashbury district alarmed the San Francisco authorities, whose public stance was that they would keep the hippies away. However Adam Kneeman, a long-time resident of the Haight-Ashbury, recalls that the police did little to help, leaving the organization of the hordes of newcomers to the overwhelmed residents. [8]

College and high-school students began streaming into the Haight during the spring break of 1967. For an article concerning the Easter break see Spring Holiday. City government leaders, determined to stop the influx of young people once schools let out for summer, unwittingly brought additional attention to the scene. An ongoing series of articles in local papers alerted national media to the hippies' growing momentum. That spring, Haight community leaders responded by forming the Council of the Summer of Love, giving the word-of-mouth event an official-sounding name. [9]

The mainstream media's coverage of hippie life in the Haight-Ashbury drew the attention of youth from all over America. Hunter S. Thompson labeled the district "Hashbury" in the New York Times Magazine, and the activities in the area were reported almost daily. Hunter Stockton Thompson ( July 18, 1937 &ndash February 20, 2005) was an American Journalist and Author, most The New York Times Magazine is a supplement to the Sunday The New York Times newspaper [10]

The movement was also fed by the counterculture's own media, particularly The San Francisco Oracle, whose pass-around readership topped a half-million at its peak that year. [11]

The media's fascination with the "counterculture" continued with the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, where approximately 30,000 people gathered for the first day of the music festival, with the number swelling to 60,000 on the final day. The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey [12] The song "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" written by John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas and sung by Scott McKenzie was initially designed to promote the Monterey Pop Festival:

“ If you're going to San Francisco,

be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair" is a Song, written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and sung by Scott The Mamas & the Papas (credited as The Mama's and the Papa's on the debut album cover were a Vocal group of the 1960s. Scott McKenzie (born Philip Blondheim on January 10 1939, Jacksonville, Florida) is an American Singer, best . .
If you're going to San Francisco,
Summertime will be a love-in there.

”

"San Francisco" became an instant hit (#4 in the U. S. , #1 in the UK) and quickly transcended its original purpose by popularizing an idealized image of San Francisco. In addition, media coverage of the Monterey Pop Festival facilitated the Summer of Love, since large numbers of fledging hippies headed to San Francisco to hear their favorite bands, among them Jefferson Airplane, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Otis Redding, The Byrds, the Grateful Dead, The Who, and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin. Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer of the Psychedelic rock movement "The Experience" redirects here For other uses of this term see Experience (disambiguation. Otis Ray Redding Jr ( September 9, 1941 December 10, 1967) was an American soul singer The Byrds were a popular American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964 The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964. The primary lineup consisted of guitarist Pete Townshend Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the psychedelic music scene Janis Lyn Joplin ( January 19, 1943  – October 4, 1970) was an American singer songwriter and music arranger from [13]

The summer

During the Summer of Love, as many as 100,000 young people from around the world flocked to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, Berkeley and other San Francisco Bay Area cities to join in a popularized version of the hippie experience. Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, or the Bay, is a geographically and ethnically diverse metropolitan region that surrounds the [14] Free food, free drugs and free love were available in Golden Gate Park, a Free Clinic (whose work continues today) was established for medical treatment, and a Free Store gave away basic necessities to anyone who needed them. The term free love has been used since at least the nineteenth century to describe a Social movement that rejects Marriage, which is seen as a form The Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc are a free health care service provider serving more than 34000 people in Northern California. Give-away shops, freeshops, or free stores are second-hand stores where all goods are free [15]

The Summer of Love attracted a wide range of people of various ages: teenagers and college students drawn by their peers and the allure of joining a cultural utopia, middle-class vacationers, and even partying military personnel from bases within driving distance. The large influx of newcomers began to cause problems. The neighborhood could not accommodate so many people descending on it so quickly, and the Haight-Ashbury scene deteriorated rapidly. Overcrowding, homelessness, hunger, drug problems, and crime afflicted the neighborhood. Many people simply left in the fall to resume their college studies. [15]

When the newly recruited Flower Children returned home, they brought new ideas, ideals, behaviors, and styles of fashion to most major cities in the U. Flower child or Flower Children usually someone born between 1940 and 1955 originated as a synonym for Hippie, especially those who gathered in San Francisco See also Bohemianism In modern usage the term " Bohemian " (sometimes shortened to "boho" is applied to people who live unconventional usually artistic S. , Canada, Britain, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan.

On October 6, 1967, those remaining in the Haight staged a mock funeral, "The Death of the Hippie" ceremony, to signal the end of the played-out scene. Events 105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. [9]

The phrase "Summer of Love" (or, more accurately, the "Second Summer of Love") is sometimes used (particularly in the UK) to refer to the summers of 1988 and 1989 and the rise of Acid House music and rave culture. The Second Summer of Love is a name given to the period in 1988-91 in Britain, during the rise of Acid House music and the euphoric explosion of unlicensed Acid house is a sub-genre of House music that emphasizes a repetitive hypnotic and trance -like style with samples or spoken lines usually used rather than sung lyrics A rave (or rave party) is a term in use since the 1980s to describe Dance Parties (often all-night events

Literature

References

  1. ^ E. Vulliamy, "Love and Haight", Observer Music Monthly 20 May 2007
  2. ^ P. Braunstein, and M. W. Doyle (eds), Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and '70s, (New York, 2002), p. 7
  3. ^ M. Isserman, and M. Kazin (eds), America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 151-172/
  4. ^ J. McDonald quoted in E. Vulliamy, "Love and Haight", Observer Music Monthly, 20 May 2007
  5. ^ T. H. Anderson, The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee, (Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 172
  6. ^ San Francisco Oracle, Vol. 1, Issue 5, p. 2
  7. ^ T. Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, (New York, 1993), p. 215
  8. ^ Stuart Maconie, "A Taste of Summer" broadcast, Radio 2, 9 October 2007
  9. ^ a b The Year of the Hippie: Timeline. PBS. org. Retrieved on 2007-04-24. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to
  10. ^ T. Anderson, The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee, (Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 174
  11. ^ Summer of Love: Underground News. PBS American Experience companion website. Retrieved on 2007-05-15. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the
  12. ^ T. Anderson, The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee, (Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 175
  13. ^ T. Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, (New York, 1993), p. 215-217
  14. ^ Allen Cohen
  15. ^ a b Gail Dolgin; Vicente Franco. (2007). American Experience: The Summer of Love. PBS. Retrieved on 2007-04-23. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at

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Summer of Love

-proper noun

  1. The summer of 1967, noted for its love-ins and the flourishing of the hippie movement.
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