In Counterculture Exhibition, Undergrads Revisit What's Going On


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Students at the University of Maryland are getting a taste of what it was like to grow up in the 1970s with a new exhibit in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library.

"Voices of the Counterculture" is the brainchild of undergraduates in the university's First-Year Innovation & Research Experience program, who pored over the university's archives to select 31 posters, magazines, photographs, fan zines, and other memorabilia related to five of the decade's key themes: the Vietnam War, the burgeoning movement for LGBTQ+ rights, the contributions of black artists and activists, youth activism, and psychedelic drugs, the Washington Post reports.

"I thought it was mostly rock and roll," one student says.

"knowing now that punk was such a big movement in the counterculture was really powerful to learn."

Among the students' choices: a copy of Elton John'sGoodbye Yellow Brick Road album, as well as the 1976 edition of Rolling Stone in which John came out as bisexual.

"I was trying to see how UMD students created spaces to gain visibility and acceptance," says another student.

"I didn't know a lot about punk," she adds, "knowing now that punk was such a big movement in the counterculture was really powerful to learn

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