What is "flower power"

n. A counterculture started in the United States in the 1960s, advocating peace and love over militarism and materialism.

n. a counterculture of young people in the US during the 1960s and 70s

Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and non-violence ideology. It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War. The expression was coined by the American beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1965 as a means to transform war protests into peaceful affirmative spectacles. Hippies embraced the symbolism by dressing in clothing with embroidered flowers and vibrant colors, wearing flowers in their hair, and distributing flowers to the public, becoming known as flower children. The term later became generalized as a modern reference to the hippie movement and the so-called counterculture of drugs, psychedelic music, psychedelic art and social permissiveness.

Flower Power is the fourth studio album by the progressive rock band The Flower Kings, which was released in 1999. It is also their second double- CD and includes the nearly one-hour-long epic composition, "Garden Of Dreams".

A Japanese edition was released that contained some bonus tracks at the end of each disc.

Flower power is a slogan.

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"Flower Power" is the sixth Japanese single released by South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. The single was released on November 14, 2012, via digital download on iTunes Japan, with a limited physical release on November 21, 2012. It serves as the third single from their second Japanese studio album, Girls & Peace (2012). Despite limited release, "Flower Power" sold 29,000 copies in its first week, peaking at number five on the Oricon Singles Chart; the single also reached number six on the Billboard Japan Hot 100.

Flower Power is the fourth album by Filipino band, Callalily. It was launched on October 13, 2012. It is their first released under Universal Records.

Flower Power is an historic photograph taken by American photographer Bernie Boston for the now-defunct Washington Star newspaper. It was nominated for the 1967 Pulitzer Prize. Taken on October 21, 1967, during the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam's march to the Pentagon, the iconic photo shows a young, long-haired Vietnam protestor in a turtleneck sweater, placing carnations into the barrel of a rifle of a National Guardsman.

When the antiwar demonstrators approached the Pentagon, Boston was sitting on top of a wall of the Mall Entrance when he saw a lieutenant march a squad of guardsmen into the crowd of demonstrators. The squad then formed a semicircle around the demonstrators, the young man in the photo emerged from the crowd and started placing carnations in the rifles. Boston took it as an opportunity to capture the moment, seeing that "everything came together" and he had a good angle sitting on top of the wall.

When Boston showed the photograph to his editor at the Washington Star, he "didn't see the importance of the picture" so it was put aside. Instead, Boston started entering it in photography competitions, where it earned its recognition.