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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
counterculture
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The environmental group had its roots in the counterculture of the 1960s.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a member of the counterculture I had tried to get excited by the New Games in which no one loses.
▪ How, in that case, could late 1960s progressive rock be specific to the counterculture?
▪ In 1976 the counterculture still had a solid beachhead in Athens, Ohio.
▪ In rejecting the reductionism of rationalism, the counterculture was so deeply anti-intellectual that it forfeited access to its own history.
▪ The relationship of progressive rock and the counterculture is thus uneasy and internally contradictory.
▪ Within the counterculture, moreover, the response to each of the songs would have been different among different subgroups.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
counterculture

also counter-culture, counter culture, 1968, from counter- + culture (q.v.). Popularized by, and perhaps coined in, the book "The Making of a Counter Culture" by Theodore Roszak. As an adjective by 1972.

Wiktionary
counterculture

n. Any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to western culture

WordNet
counterculture

n. a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture

Wikipedia
Counterculture

A counterculture (also written counter-culture) is a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores.

A countercultural movement expresses the ethos and aspirations of a specific population during a well-defined era. When oppositional forces reach critical mass, countercultures can trigger dramatic cultural changes.

Prominent examples of countercultures in Europe and North America include Romanticism (1790–1840), Bohemianism (1850–1910), the more fragmentary counterculture of the Beat Generation (1944–1964), and perhaps most prominently, the counterculture of the 1960s (1964–1974), usually associated with the hippie subculture.

Usage examples of "counterculture".

American commercial culture co-opted the counterculture of communes and simple living, commodifying dissent, and selling it back to the dissenters.

Point Foundation started its yearly Hackers Conference, and began to take an extensive interest in the strange new possibilities of digital counterculture.

The rebels of the 1960s in the United States saw him as an advocate of the antimaterialistic counterculture, the drug culture, and the search for truth in the mystic religions of the East.

In point of fact, my divorce from Irene had cost me plenty, making a shambles of both my bank account and my credit record, and Vickie's fondness for upper-middle-class counterculture artifacts, solar-powered trash compacters and so on, had depleted her resources as well.

Our American multicultures and countercultures are themselves hyperbolic fractal expansions of Disney's delirious embrace of sincerity and cleanliness and niceness and grotesque sentimentalism and white middle American hyperconformity.