counterculture
Noun
Meaning
a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture
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Examples
Blair, p. 4. Much of the information in those files relates to his association with counterculture figures, protest organizers, musicians, and other people described by the FBI as "subversive".
Counterculture The books were written at the height of the late 1960s, and are infused with the popular counterculture ideas of that time.
A friend gave this counterculture bible to me when I was in college, at a time when I was slogging through books written by a bunch of 19th-century writers who made reading feel like hard work.
Allen Ginsberg, beat poet and icon of the counterculture, and Richard Helms, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 1966-1973, during the most controversial years of the Vietnam War.
Another character in the book, George Dorn, is said to have been inspired to become a counterculture journalist after hearing the song.
Disco can be seen as a reaction against both the domination of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period.