IMPLICATIONS FRANÇAISES DE LA CONTRE-CULTURE AMÉRICAINE DES ANNÉES 1950 ET 1960 : LES EXEMPLES DE LA BEAT GENERATION ET DU MOUVEMENT HIPPIE
FRENCH IMPLICATIONS OF AMERICAN COUNTER-CULTURE OF 1950 AND 1960: EXAMPLES OF THE BEAT GENERATION AND HIPPIE MOVEMENT

Summary/Abstract: In this article, we present the influences of the American counterculture from the 1950s and 1960s in France, focusing on the beat generation and the hippie movement. The study aims to highlight the consequences of these two currents on the French society during the 1960s and 1970s. In order to understand their specificities in France, in the first part of this paper we shall describe the society of this country during the 1960s, because these specificities represent the roots that have been materialized in the events of 1968. In the second part of this paper, we shall present the beatnik and hippie culture from the metropolitan France, depending on the axis “own culture/social reality”, noting that their influence could not be compared to that which prevailed in the United States. Certain themes that were frequently approached by these two currents have remained topical. Politics, sexism and racism are just a few of them.

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