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title: "In Counterculture Exhibition, Undergrads Revisit What’s Going On"
date: 2024-07-16T09:00:00-04:00
author: University of Maryland
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# In Counterculture Exhibition, Undergrads Revisit What’s Going On

*July 16, 2024* — by [Sala Levin ’10](/author/sala-levin-10)


> Students Jam on ’70s Musical Themes

*ARHU Voicesofthe Counterculture 07152024 RS 1335 1920x1080 — In “Voices of the Counterculture,” a new exhibit in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, undergraduate students in the First Year Innovation and Research Experience program chose items from University Archives that reflected the social and cultural themes of music from the 1970s. (Left: a spread from the Washington, D.C.-based alternative newspaper Quicksilver Times)*

It was the decade that Elton John’s glittery pink platform shoes stepped onto the yellow brick road, that George Harrison and Ravi Shankar organized a pair of benefit concerts for Bangladeshi refugees and that the University of Maryland hosted an orientation for new students called—yes, really—“High Week.”


*High Week poster hangs on wall — A "High Week" poster lists the agenda for new student orientation in the 1970s.*


*Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” album and Rolling Stone cover among collection of archival items — Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” album, along with the Rolling Stone issue in which he came out as bisexual, are part of the section on the growing LGBTQ+ rights movement.*



**Sidebar note:**

“Voices of the Counterculture” is on display in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library through the Fall 2024 semester. Students will discuss their research at an open house there from 1 to 3 p.m. July 16.





**Topics:** [Arts & Culture](https://today.umd.edu/tags/arts-culture)


**Tags:** [Music](https://today.umd.edu/topic/music), [Research](https://today.umd.edu/topic/research), [Student Experience](https://today.umd.edu/topic/student-experience), [Arts](https://today.umd.edu/topic/arts)


**Units:** [Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center](https://today.umd.edu/topic/clarice-smith-performing-arts-center), [College of Arts and Humanities](https://today.umd.edu/topic/college-arts-and-humanities), [University Libraries](https://today.umd.edu/topic/university-libraries)