The power of interest is the slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolent ideology. It is rooted in the opposition movement against the Vietnam War. The phrase was coined by American poet Allen Ginsberg in 1965 as a means of turning war protests into peaceful, affirmative eyewear. The hippies embraced symbolism by wearing clothes with embroidered flowers and bright colors, wearing flowers in their hair, and distributing flowers to the public, known as flower children. The term is then generalized as a modern reference to the hippie movement and the so-called counter-drugs, psychedelic music, psychedelic art and social permissiveness.
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Origin
The Power of Flowers comes from Berkeley, California, as a symbolic act of protest against the Vietnam War. In the November 1965 essay entitled How to Make a March/Spectacle , Ginsberg suggested that protesters should be given "flower mass" to be distributed to police, the press, politicians and spectators. The use of props such as flowers, toys, flags, candy and music is intended to turn anti-war demonstrations into street theater form, thereby reducing the fear, anger and threats inherent in protests. Specifically, Ginsberg wants to fight the "scourge" of motorcycle gangs of Hells Angels who support the war, equating war protesters with communists and has threatened to disrupt planned anti-war demonstrations at the University of California, Berkeley. Using the Ginsberg method, the protests received positive attention and the use of "flower power" became an integral symbol in the counter-cultural movement.
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Movement
By the end of 1966, the Power Power method of guerrilla theater had spread from California to other parts of the United States. The Bread and Puppet Theater in New York City staged a variety of protests that included distributing balloons and flowers with their anti-war literature. Workshop on Nonviolence (WIN), a magazine published by New York activists, encourages the use of the Power of Interest. In May 1967, Abbie Hoffman set the Flower Brigade as the official contingent of the New York City parade to honor the soldiers in Vietnam. News coverage captured participants of the Flower Brigade, carrying flowers, flags and pink posters printed with LOVE, assaulted and beaten by spectators. Responding to the violence, Hoffman writes in WIN magazine, "Plans are being made to mine the East River with daffodils.The Dandelion chain is wrapped around the induction center.... The 'Flower Power' shout is echoing all over the country We will not wither.
On the following Sunday in May 1967, WINS activists announced the Day of the Armed Forces as "The Day of Flower Power" and held a rally in Central Park against traditional parades. The number of voters is low and, according to Hoffman, the protests are ineffective because guerrilla theater should be more confrontational.
In October 1967, Hoffman and Jerry Rubin helped set up March at the Pentagon using the concept of Flower Power to create a theatrical spectacle. The idea included a call for a march to try to drift into the Pentagon. When the demonstrators were confronted with more than 2,500 Army national guard troops who formed human barricades in front of the Pentagon, the demonstrators held flowers and some put flowers on the barrel of the army rifle.
Photographs of fluttering protesters at the Pentagon March became a seminal picture of the anti-war protests of the 1960s. An image by French photojournalist Marc Riboud printed all over the world, is a seventeen-year-old high school student, Jan Rose Cashmere, holding a daisy and staring at the bayonet soldiers. The Smithsonian Magazine then called it "a hilarious juxtaposition of the armed forces and innocent innocence of children".
One photo, entitled The Power of Flowers by Washington Star Bernie Boston photographer, was nominated for a 1967 Pulitzer Prize. Photos taken on October 21, 1967, showed a young, long-haired man with a turtleneck sweater, placing a carnation into a rifle military. (The young man in this photo is most often identified as George Edgerly Harris III, an 18-year-old actor from New York who later performed in San Francisco under the stage name Hibiscus, and has also been identified by Paul Krassner as the organizer of the Youth International Party, "Super -Joel "Tornabene.)
Cultural heritage
The center of the Flower Power movement icon is the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco, California. In the mid-1960s, the area, characterized by the crossroads of Haight and Ashbury, has become a focal point for psychedelic rock music. Musicians and bands like Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin all live near the famous intersection. During the Summer of Love 1967, thousands of hippies gathered there, popularized by hit songs such as "San Francisco (Make Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)". The cover story of July 7, 1967, Time on "The Hippies: Philosophy of a Subculture" and August CBS News's "The Hippie Temptation," and other major media interests exposed the hippie subculture to attention national and popularize the Flower Power movement across the country and around the world. In the same summer, the Beatles hit single "All You Need Is Love" acted as a song for this movement. On June 25, The Beatles performed a song on our international satellite broadcast Our World , ensuring that the pacifist message reaches an estimated audience of 400 million.
The avant-garde art of Milton Glaser, Heinz Edelmann, and Peter Max became synonymous with the power plant. Edelman's illustration style is best known in his art design for the animated film The Beatles in 1968 Yellow Submarine . Glaser, founder of Push Pin Studios, also developed a loose psychedelic graphic design, seen for example in Bob Dylan's 1966 illustration poster with paisley hair. It was posters by pop artist Peter Max, with his fluid designs painted in Day-Glo colors, which became the visual icon of flower power. Max's cover story in Life magazine (September 1969) and his performance on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson and The Ed Sullivan Show, the more established Art style "flower power" into mainstream culture.
See also
References
Further reading
Bennett M. Berger, "Hippie morality - older than the new", Society , Volume 5, Number 2/December, 1967External links
- Archive of the 1960s photography
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