Research Guides: American Studies: Research Seminar: Counterculture

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Some relevant subject searches that you can do in the Catalog include:

Counterculture
Communal Living
Hippies
Subculture United States

Haight Ashbury

Haight Ashbury in the Sixties! [2-disc CD-ROM] 1995.
"A documentary and interactive time capsule about the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the 1960's. It contains Allen Cohen's "The Rise & Fall of the Haight-Ashbury", articles, poetry, and artwork from "The San Francisco Oracle", photos, video clips, and music by The Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, and Big Brother with Janis Joplin...Also included is "Drop Out", an interactive game for 1-6 players." Available?

Berkeley

Berkeley in the Sixties. Kirchell Films, 2002. "Present a history of Berkeley, California during the 1960's through interviews with students, activists, and use or archival news footage."

Encyclopedia

The ABC-CLIO Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America.: Neil A. Hamilton. Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-CLIO, 1997. Available?

Communes

The Roots of the 1960s Communal Revival: Timothy Miller. American Studies 33(2), Fall 1992, pp.73-93.

The Farm: Founded in 1971 on 6 square miles in south central Tennessee, The Farm is still home to approximately 200 persons today.

Intentional Communiites: The collections on communes at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst Special Collections. Includes a digitized documentary (ca 1973) for the Brotherhood of the Spirit, "the largest commune in the United States," and the digitized New Babylon Times/Green Mountain Post, the countercultural literary magazine produced by members of the Montague Farm commune.

Drop City: "Often cited as the first rural commune of the 1960s, Drop City was an experimental community on the plains of Southern Colorado that blended practices of art, architecture, and resourceful living in ways that came to define a global counterculture...This video clip features three of the early residents of Drop City: JoAnn Bernofsky, Gene Bernofsky and Clark Richert."

Twin Oaks (Virginia): Early Photographs

Hippies

Hippyland Archives: Eclectic group of documents and images from the period of the 1960s-1970s.

Hippies.: Produced by Lou Reda Productions for the History Channel, 2007.; "The film describes what happened during the 1960s and the effects of the Hippie "counter-culture" on American society right up to the present time. "

Woodstock

Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music: Directed by Michael Wadleigh. Burbank Calif., Warner Home Video, 1997.; Restored director's cut. "This documentary film captures the unique communal experience and many of the performances of the most famous of outdoor rock concerts performed during three days at Bethel, New York." Available?