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^ 2.02.1Eric Donald Hirsch. The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-65597-8. (1993) p 419. "Members of a cultural protest that began in the U.S. in the 1960s and Europe before fading in the 1970s... fundamentally a cultural rather than a political protest."
^His conception of the counterculture is discussed in Whiteley, 2012 and Bennett, 2012.
^Gelder, Subcultures (2007) p. 4. "...to the banalities of mass cultural forms".
^Hodkinson and Deicke, Youth Cultures (2007), p. 205. "...opposition to, the middle-class establishment of adults."
^Hebdige, Subculture (1979), p.127. "defining themselves against the parent culture."
^Hall & Jefferson, Resistance Through Rituals (1991), p.61. "They make articulate their opposition to dominant values and institutions—even when, as frequently occurred, this does not take the form of an overtly political response."
^Hazlehurst & Hazlehurst, Gangs and Youth Subcultures (1998), p.59. "There does seem to be some general commitment towards antiauthoritarianism, a rejection of the traditional party political system which is considered irrelevant."
^ 12.012.1Yablonsky, Lewis (1968), The Hippie Trip, New York: Western Publishing, Inc., ISBN 978-0595001163, pp 21-37.
^原文如下:"Despite the theoretical arguments that can be raised against the sociological value of counterculture as a meaningful term for categorising social action, like subculture, the term lives on as a concept in social and cultural theory(英语:cultural theory)… [to] become part of a received, mediated memory".
^原文如下: "this involved not simply the utopian but also the dystopian and that while festivals such as those held at Monterey and Woodstock might appear to embrace the former, the deaths of such iconic figures as Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, the nihilistic mayhem at Altamont, and the shadowy figure of Charlie Manson cast a darker light on its underlying agenda, one that reminds us that ‘pathological issues [are] still very much at large in today’s world".
^Mary Works Covington, Rockin' At the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock, 2005.
^翻譯時,此處有小的省略,原文如下:In the United States, widespread tensions developed in the 1960s in American society that tended to flow along generational lines regarding the war in Vietnam, race relations, sexual mores, women's rights, traditional modes of authority, and a materialist interpretation of the American Dream.
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