Format:
1 online resource (390 pages)
ISBN:
9781442246072
Content:
As the first full-bodied treatment of the American counterculture of the 1960s, Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll traces its origins, discusses its most important figures, delves into iconic works, relates its ebb and flow, dissects the intersection of culture and politics, highlights millennial and apocalyptic sensibilities, and traces legacies.
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Precursors: From Utopia to Huxley -- Troubadours for a New American Bohemia: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and the Beats -- The Continued Reception of the Beats -- From Harvard to Millbrook: Timothy Leary -- The Merry Prankster: Ken Kesey -- The Magic Elixir of Sex and a Touch of Anarchism -- The Magic in the Music -- California Dreaming and Haight-Ashbury -- Spreading the Word: Alternative Media -- People of the Book -- From the Human Be-In to the Summer of Love -- The Death of Hippie and Early Postmortems -- Alternative Living -- From Hippie to Yippie on the Way to Revolution -- Fighting in the Streets and the Latest Battle of the Bands -- COINTELPRO and the Millennium -- The Conspiracy, Street Fighting Man, and the Apocalypse -- The Not So Slow Fade -- It's All Over Now -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442246065
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442246065
Language:
English
