Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll
Robert Cottrell talked about his book Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Rise of America’s 1960s Counterculture, in which he explores some of the people and movements that influenced the decade.
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Robert Cottrell talked about his book Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Rise of America’s 1960s Counterculture, in which he explores some of the people and movements that influenced the decade.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- What factors sparked the counterculture of the 1960s?
- What was the hippie movement? What were some of the concerns of the members of the movement?
- What were the effects of the counterculture on American societies during the 1960s?
Participants
Vocabulary
- Allen Ginsberg
- Anti-war Movement
- Cold War
- Gilbert Shelton
- Hippies
- Jack Kerouac
- Janis Joplin
- Jim Crow
- Jim Morrison
- Jimi Hendrix
- Richard Albert
- The Beatles
- Timothy Leary
- Underground Newspapers