Pictured is a young hippie sitting at the bottom of the Spanish Steps in Rome, 1970. A hippie (also commonly referred to as hippy) is an individual member of the counterculture of the 1960s. It was originally a youth movement that first started in the United States in the mid-60s, which eventually spread to other parts of the world. Funnily enough, the term ‘hippie’ was popularized in San Francisco by journalist Herb Caen, after writing an article in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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The word ‘hippie’ first derived from the word ‘hipster,’ which was used to describe beatniks (a media stereotype that displayed superficial aspects of the Beat Generation). According to reports, the origins of the term hip and hep are generally uncertain. Although this is the case, both of these terms became a part of the African American jive slang by the 1940s, and in general meant “sophisticated and currently up to date.”
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With the mix of the Beat Generation with the popularization of hippies, hippies started to create their own communities by often listening to psychedelic music, embracing the sexual revolution, and many of them took drugs such as LSD, mushrooms and marijuana – in order to explore an altered state of consciousness (which has also become a media stereotype on what a ‘hippie’ actually is).
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Hippie culture was heavily popularized in 1967 during the ‘Human-Be-In’ and Monterey Pop Festival in Golden Gate Park. Hippie fashion and values also had a major influence and effect on our culture, such as popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts.
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