Black Rock City Urban Geography

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Chapter 2: Literature Review

Counterculture and Company Towns

At each time its underground its heroes in every generation resistant to dogma, its explorers of new frontiers. Among the heroes of the American underground of the post War II, are those that the New York Times has labeled 1957 "The Beat Generation ". Four writers fond of jazz, literature and Japanese and Indian spirituality Tibetan: Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso . The term Cons-Era Culture refers to the use of media, changes have arisen in the corporate North America and Western Europe during the years 1960 and 1970. An inventory literature tells us about a consensus in the perception of what was called "The Cons-Culture "by its authors. For Hirsh, Trefill, Kett, Saint-Jean-Paulin, and many others authors, the definition of the Counter-Culture is primarily defined by opposition. The opposition the dominant culture: "In the U.S., the Counter-Culture of the 1960s was marked with the rejection of conventional social standards of the 1950s.

The youth of the cons-culture rejected the cultural standards of his parents and particularly regarding respect for racial segregation and initial support for the Vietnam War. “. 'The United States is, as other Western countries, shaken by a challenge to the consensus on which they were based. In this atmosphere of tension and anxiety, counter-culture, "culture-cons," he then builds political ideas, a lifestyle and philosophical concepts that defined primarily by their opposition to the thinking of the vast majority of population-in short, the culture of industrial society. “ Inspired, music critic Edward Macan, sees the movement a lifestyle that is defined not only by opposition: "the counterculture was largely composed of young people from middle class white have consciously rejected the lifestyle of their parents for longer paths Experimental discovered new realms of perception through the exploration of Eastern religions and the use of psychedelic drugs, choosing to live in community and sometimes nomadic, opposing the Vietnam War."

Often described as a "Movement", the counter-culture phenomenon tells us involvement in the action, cons-cultural act . Circumscribe a phenomenon as complex as the movement of the Counter-culture in its various events to make it a subject of study requires us to be succinct and Synthetic and we quote the following sub-movements to give the reader an idea about the Movement: pacifists, Civil Rights Movement (Civil Rights Movement for African-American), Back To Land Movement (earth return) and environmentalist movements, the feminist movements and movements for the legalization of psychotropic drugs. Sara Evans Former Civil Rights activist gives us perhaps with its own definition of Movement, a more intuitive and perhaps more accurate to the Counter-Culture: "Above all the term 'movement' was self-descriptive. There was no way to be a part, you Just announce it or you feel that you made part of the movement - often through acts as joining a protest march. Almost a mystical term, the movement involves an experience, a sense of community and common purpose.

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