rm unsourced; Judt describes the UK hippie move. as an American import. Music was the fuel for the counterculture, however it started with US folk and blues
{{TOCright}}Though it also developed in the [[United Kingdom]],{{Fact|date=March 2007}} theThe '''[[counterculture]] of the [[1960s]]''' began in the [[United States]] as a reaction against the conservative [[social norms]] of the [[1950]]s, the political conservatism (and social repression) of the [[Cold War]] period, and the US government's extensive military intervention in [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]]. <ref>[[Eric Donald Hirsch|Hirsch, E.D.]] (1993). ''The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy''. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-65597-8. p 419. "Members of a cultural protest that began in the U.S. in the 1960's and affected Europe before fading in the 1970s...fundamentally a cultural rather than a political protest."</ref> <ref>"Rockin' At the Red Dog: The Dawn of Psychedelic Rock," Mary Works Covington, 2005.</ref>
As the 1960s progressed, widespread tensions developed 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, experimentation with psychedelic drugs and a predominantly materialist interpretation of the American dream.
