Counter-Culture of the 1960s
The Counter Culture of the 1960s first developed in the United States and the United Kingdom and soon spread throughout the majority of the western world to become a great cultural phenomenon from the early 60s to the early 70s. There were several distinguishing factors of the Counter Culture of the 1960s including the "post-war baby boom" which made up an unprecedented number of young, wealthy, and disaffected youths who would contribute vastly to rethinking the direction of governing and civil rights within their countries. This cultural change brought drug-use into a much more public domain, which coincided with the sense of freedom that many civilians felt at this time. Historian Tony Boraman suggests that, "people often demanded a "total revolution", a revolution that was simultaneously social, sexual, cultural, economic, and political."
The Counter Culture movement gained momentum during the period of the Vietnam War and is more or less the overarching cause of New Zealand's very own anti-Vietnam War Movement.
The Counter Culture movement gained momentum during the period of the Vietnam War and is more or less the overarching cause of New Zealand's very own anti-Vietnam War Movement.
This image shows the "Road Hog" bus in El Rito, New mexico at the Fourth of July Parade,
1968. Buses decorated in psychedelic colours, provided homes on the road for groups of
protesters.
~Lisa Law, 'A Visual Journey', photographs by Lisa Law 1965-1971.
1968. Buses decorated in psychedelic colours, provided homes on the road for groups of
protesters.
~Lisa Law, 'A Visual Journey', photographs by Lisa Law 1965-1971.