The series ' art direction centers on American music and counterculture, especially the beat and jazz movements of the 1940s – 1960s and the early rock and roll era of the 1950s – 1970s, which the original soundtrack by Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts defines.

* November 28 – Kerry Wendell Thornley, American counterculture figure and writer ( b. 1938 )

The most obvious use of pop music " accompanies and gives context to " Lester's attempts to recapture his youth ; reminiscent of how the counterculture of the 1960s combated American repression through music and drugs, Lester begins to smoke cannabis and listen to rock music.

Along with the New Left and the American Civil Rights Movement, the hippie movement was one of three dissenting groups of the 1960s counterculture.

* The Beat Generation, a popular American cultural movement that most social scholars say laid the foundation of the pro-active American counterculture of the 1960s.

Gospel stars like Mahalia Jackson became important figures in the Civil Rights Movement, while the American folk revival helped spread the counterculture of the 1960s and opposition to the Vietnam War.

* Father Yod ( James Edward Baker, 1922 – 1975 ), American alternative / counterculture spiritual leader ; also known as YaHoWha

The American and British counterculture explosion and hippie movement had diverted music to that which was dominated by socially and American politically incisive lyrics by the late 1960s.

By the end of the 1960s, the American and British counterculture and hippie movement had moved rock towards psychedelia, heavy metal, progressive rock and other styles, incorporating, for the first time in popular music, socially and politically incisive lyrics.

The trial extended for months, with many celebrated figures from the American left and counterculture called to testify, including folk singers Phil Ochs, Judy Collins and Arlo Guthrie, writers Norman Mailer and Allen Ginsberg, and activists Timothy Leary and Rev.

It was a prelude to San Francisco's Summer of Love, which made the Haight-Ashbury district a symbol of American counterculture and introduced the word " psychedelic " to suburbia.

Starting in the late 1950s, Seattle was one of the centers of the emergence of the American counterculture and culture of protest.

The Summer of Love ( 1967 ), the 1960s era as a whole, and much of modern American counterculture have been synonymous with San Francisco and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood ever since.

In the United States of the 1960s, especially during the heyday of the hippie counterculture on the west coast, many teens and young adults, disillusioned with the austere confines of the postwar, suburbanite American way of life and the resultant countercultural and New Left movements defined themselves as " freaks ".

The Whole Earth Catalog was an American counterculture catalog published by Stewart Brand between 1968 and 1972, and occasionally thereafter, until 1998.

Flower power was a slogan used by the American counterculture movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and non-violence ideology.

While the raggare movement has its roots in late 1950s youth counterculture, today it is associated mainly with middle aged men who enjoy meeting and showing off their retro American cars.

Especially following the American Civil War, a large number of homeless men formed part of a counterculture known as " hobohemia " all over America.

By the end of the 1960s, the American and British counterculture and hippie movement had moved rock towards psychedelic rock, heavy metal, progressive rock and other styles ( from which Scorpions rose to prominence ), incorporating, for the first time in popular music, socially and politically incisive lyrics.

Chapter 19, " Surprises ", covers other movements that happened during the 1960s, such as second-wave feminism, the prison reform / prison abolition movement, the Native American rights movement, and the counterculture.

People and events from the counterculture covered include Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Malvina Reynolds, Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death, Jonathan Kozol, George Dennison, and Ivan Illich.

That same year, he founded American Christian College in Tulsa, to teach fundamentalist Christian principles and provide an alternative to perceived left-wing and counterculture influences.

While modernist poetry in English is often viewed as an American phenomenon, with leading exponents including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, H. D., and Louis Zukofsky, there were important British modernist poets, including David Jones, Hugh MacDiarmid, Basil Bunting, and W. H. Auden.

Historically it also had exponents in former parts of the British Empire, for instance the Loyalists of British America who sided with Britain and Crown during the American Revolutionary War.

Like other Latin American countries, Ecuadorian music includes local exponents of international styles: from opera, salsa and rock to cumbia, thrash metal and jazz.

Between the wars, American exponents of the sterling example set to Britain by National Prohibition, such as William " Pussyfoot " Johnson and Dr Armor, toured the country, to be met with derision, and in Johnson's case, violence.

Major late-19th-century American exponents of the medium included Thomas Moran, Thomas Eakins, John LaFarge, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, and, preeminently, Winslow Homer.

The Red Army, with its purchase of the British Vickers Carden Loyd tankette, Vickers E-Light and Cruiser Mk II Medium tanks, and of the American Christie suspension for production use in its own vehicles, was clearly one of the leading exponents of this practice.

Joseph Cornell ( December 24, 1903 – December 29, 1972 ) was an American artist and sculptor, one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage.

Ammi and his followers draw on a long tradition in black American culture ( see Black Hebrew Israelites ) which holds that black Americans are the descendants of the Ancient Israelites ( Ammi cites Charles Harrison Mason of Mississippi, William Saunders Crowdy of Virginia, Bishop William Boome of Tennessee, Charles Price Jones of Mississippi and Elder Saint Samuel of Tennessee as early exponents of black descent from Israelites ).

Modernist poetry in English is often viewed as an American phenomenon in origin, with leading exponents including Ezra Pound, T. S.

In the North American situation, the two main exponents today of Vollenhoven's consequent problem-historical method ( CPHM ) are Dr John Kok of Dordt College, who wrote his dissertation on Vollenhoven's early development ; and Dr Robert Sweetman ( ICS, Toronto ), who holds the H. Evan Runner Chair in the History of Philosophy, who is a Medieval philosophy specialist, and who brings an incipient theory of discourse to a gap in the archtectonics of this school of historical-philosophical thought.

Both he and Stephen Wise, working closely together, had been exponents of the ' democratization of Jewish life ', that is, " an informed and assertive public ," but under the stress of wartime conditions, and on the eve of the 1940 American presidential elections, they came to doubt the efficacy of public pressure, preferring a quiet diplomacy behind the scenes as the more effective means of pursuing viable goals.

He was one of the major exponents of Latin American poetry.

He is regarded as one of the most influential exponents of blues fiddle and has had enormous influence in American fiddle circles.

While modernist poetry in English is often viewed as an American phenomenon, with leading exponents including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, H. D., and Louis Zukofsky, there were important British modernist poets, including David Jones, Hugh MacDiarmid, Basil Bunting, and W. H. Auden.

Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.

American newspaper reviewers like to call his plays nihilistic.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

To the average American, this must sound like an incredible tale from a Saturday night TV movie.

I should like at this time, Mr. Speaker, to pay warm tribute to Arthur Hays Sulzberger and Charles Merz on the occasion of their retirement from distinguished careers in American journalism.

This is the Powell Amendment, which in 1957 divided even a `` liberal '' group like the American Veterans Committee ( AVC ).

Enthusiastically, Americans have swept subliterary and bogus materials like Paul Bunyan tales, Abe Lincoln anecdotes and labor union songs up as true products of our American oral tradition.

Some, like the British and the French, maintain an elaborate system of personal contacts and have experts constantly studying special areas of the American scene.

He met with enthusiastic audience approval, especially when he swung from jazz to Latin American things like the Mambo.

To `` Monty '', the American people, who in two previous world wars were very reluctant to join the fight, `` now look like the nation most likely to lead us all into a third World War ''.

From the American Civil War until World War II, Alabama, like many Southern states, suffered economic hardship, in part because of continued dependence on agriculture.

Gershwin did not particularly like Walter Damrosch's interpretation at the world premiere of An American in Paris.

Much like the relationship between British English and American English, the Austrian and German varieties differ in minor respects ( e. g., spelling, word usage and grammar ) but are recognizably equivalent and largely mutually intelligible.

If separate Chinese-language menus are available, they typically feature delicacies like liver, chicken feet or other meat dishes that might deter American customers.

One particular contribution towards formalizing these differences came from Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary ( published 1828 ) with the intention of showing that people in the United States spoke a different dialect from Britain, much like a regional accent.

Notable American restaurant chefs include Thomas Keller, Charlie Trotter, Grant Achatz, Alfred Portale, Paul Prudhomme, Paul Bertolli, Frank Stitt, Alice Waters, and celebrity chefs like Mario Batali, Alton Brown, Emeril Lagasse, Cat Cora, Michael Symon, Bobby Flay, Ina Garten, Todd English, Sandra Lee, and Paula Deen.

Common targets include the World Bank ( WB ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) and free trade treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ), the Multilateral Agreement on Investment ( MAI ) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ).

He argues that the power ballad broke into the mainstream of American consciousness in 1976 as FM radio gave a new lease of life to earlier songs like Led Zeppelin's " Stairway to Heaven " ( 1971 ), Aerosmith's " Dream On " ( 1973 ), and Lynyrd Skynyrd's " Free Bird " ( 1974 ).

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

Another development was the increasing use of " gross-out humour " usually aimed at a younger audience, in films like There's Something About Mary, American Pie and its sequels, and Freddy Got Fingered.

But essentially Chicanos, like some Mexicans, are American Indians who were influenced by the Spanish culture through conquest, while Latino or Hispanic refers to race / genetics.

Besides a customized Linux distribution for the Latin American market, Conectiva developed a series of products and additional services directed to meet the market demand for open source tools, including books, manuals, additional software like Linux Tools and embedded systems, OEM programs, applications port, training kits and the " Revista do Linux " Linux magazine.

These are a popular compromise for ( American ) shooters who would like to own a submachine gun but cannot due to local restrictions or the prohibitive cost of buying a civilian legal submachine gun ( full automatics or semi-automatics with barrels shorter than are restricted under Title II of the National Firearms Act ).

The " strong "-" weak " categorization is not the same as " Western "-" non-Western ", as some Latin American states like Argentina and Brazil and Middle Eastern states like Egypt and Israel are considered to have " strong " administrative structures and economic infrastructure.