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I'm pretty sure the word counterculture was literally invented to describe hippies in the 60s.
by burkaman 4y ago
I'm pretty sure the word counterculture was literally invented to describe hippies in the 60s.
- antod 4y agoI'm guessing beatniks in the 50s myself.
- jhbadger 4y agoClose. It was invented in 1960, prior to the hippie movement and referring to their predecessors, the beatniks of the 1950s.
- burkaman 4y agoI wasn't alive so I'm just going off casual web searches, but most people seem to credit this 1969 book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_a_Counter_Culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_a_Counter_Cultur.... It was not the literal first usage, but the word was definitely not widely known before the 60s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=counterculture&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=counterculture.... But I said literally and it wasn't literally true, so my bad.