Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll: the rise of America's 1960s counterculture
2015; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 53; Issue: 02 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.192239
ISSN1943-5975
Tópico(s)Theater, Performance, and Music History
ResumoSex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll: The American Counterculture of 1960s offers a unique examination of cultural flowering that enveloped United States during that early postwar decade. Robert C. Cottrell provides an enthralling view of counterculture, beginning with an examination of American bohemia, Lyrical Left of pre-WWII era, and hipsters. He delves into Beats, before analyzing counterculture that emerged on both East and West coasts, but soon cropped up in American heartland as well. Cottrell delivers something of a collective biography, through an exploration of antics of seminal countercultural figures Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary, and Ken Kesey. Cottrell also presents fascinating chapters covering the magic elixir of sex, rock 'n roll, underground press, Haight-Ashbury, literature that garnered attention of many in counterculture, Monterey Pop, Summer of Love, Death of Hippie, March on Pentagon, communes, Yippies, Weatherman, Woodstock, Manson family, women's movement, and decade's legacies.
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