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countercultural group in the United States. The counterculture also had access to a media eager to present tlieir concerns to a widet public. Demonstrations for social justice created far-reaching changes affecting many aspects ot society.

Rejection ot mainstream culture was best embodied in the new genres ot psychedelic rock musie, pop-art and new explorations in spiiituality. Musicians who exemplified this era mclude The Gratetul Dead. Tetterson Airplane. The I-Giiks. Timi Hendnx. The Doors. Cream. Pmk Floyd. The Rolling- Stones. Led Zeppelin. The Beatles. Bob Dylan. Tams loplin The Yelyet Underground and Nico. The pop-art culture led by Andy Warhol also played a part in social change in the United States by redetining what art was and what madę lt valuable. Warhots mass-produced monographs and silk-screens. such as the lconic Campbell's Soup Cans. challenged the notion that art is only about certain subjects (i.e., wealthy patrons or pretty landscapes), or that art is a singular creation. An entire generation's liberał views about art and drugs found prominent expression in Warhol's paintings, tilms, and musie. Sentiments were also expressed in the song lyncs and popular sayings ot tlie period, such as 'do your own thing,' 'turn on. tune in. drop out.' 'whatever turns you on,' 'Eight miles high.' and 'light my tire.' Spiritually, the counterculture mcluded interest in astrology. the tenn "Age ot Aguanus" and knowing people's signs (Sun Skuś). This led Theodore Roszak to State “"A (sic) eclectic taste for mystic, occult, and magical phenomena has been a marked characteristic ot our postwar WWII youth culture sińce tlie days ot tlie beatniks" (1968).“

The counterculture in tlie United States reached lts peak between 1966 and the early 1970s. It eventually waned for several reasons: mainstream America's disdam for unrepentant hedonism and conspicuous drug use, and tlie troubles caused by tliese excesses; the deadi ot many notable countercultural figures; tlie end ot the Vietnam War; and the end otCivil Riglits protests following passage ot remedial legislation. Tlie counterculture continues to influence social movements, art and society ui generał.