Audience

Audience The People at Woodstock The people who attended the Woodstock Festival adopted the name "The Woodstock Nation." "The Woodstock Nation" were people who generally distrusted (or rebelled against) the traditional American values and freely experimented with drugs and sex. Most of the audience at Woodstock were hippies, young students, and opposed to the Vietnam War.

Hippies The word 'Hippie' may have come from the word 'Hip' which meant 'tuned in' or 'aware.' Hippies were people who joined in the youth movement that later became the Hippie Subculture in the 1960's.

They were a group of young people (mostly ages 15-25) who opposed the customs, traditions, and lifestyles of American society. It was also a rebellion against the adults of the decade, who were thought to care "too much about making money."

Hippie Ideologies The Hippie Ideologies included countercultural values and also values of the Beat Generation. These values were generally the rejection to materialism, and the support of experimentation with  drugs and sexuality. They created their own social groups that evolved around Psychedelic rock, the sexual revolution, and the use of drugs to explore "alternate states of consciousness."

The end of the drafts and the Vietnam war caused the patriotic sense to return to America. This captured the media's attention and took the spotlight away from hippies and counterculture. This brought the end to the Hippie generation.