Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll (eBook)

The Rise of America's 1960s Counterculture

Robert C. Cottrell (Autor)

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2015
408 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-4607-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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Sex, Drugs, and Rock ';n Roll: The American Counterculture of the 1960s offers a unique examination of the cultural flowering that enveloped the United States during that early postwar decade. Robert C. Cottrell provides an enthralling view of the counterculture, beginning with an examination of American bohemia, the Lyrical Left of the pre-WWII era, and the hipsters. He delves into the Beats, before analyzing the counterculture that emerged on both the East and West coasts, but soon cropped up in the American heartland as well. Cottrell delivers something of a collective biography, through an exploration of the 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, the underground press, Haight-Ashbury, the literature that garnered the attention of many in the counterculture, Monterey Pop, the Summer of Love, the Death of Hippie, the March on the Pentagon, communes, Yippies, Weatherman, Woodstock, the Manson family, the women's movement, and the decade's legacies.

Autor

Robert C. Cottrell has written over twenty books, including biographies of the radical journalist I. F. Stone, ACLU icon Roger Nash Baldwin, and Negro League founder Rube Foster. He is the author most recently of Two Icons: How Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson TransformedBaseball and America. Cottrell, professor of history and American studies at California State University, Chico, has also taught in London; Puebla, Mexico; and Moscow, Russia, in the latter instance as a Distinguished Fulbright Chair. He is currently working on a collective biographyof four key members of the early twentieth-century American left: Crystal Eastman, John Reed, Inez Milholland, and Randolph Bourne.

Inhalt

PrefaceAcknowledgments Chapter 1: The Precursors: From Utopia to Huxley Chapter 2: Troubadours for a New American Bohemia: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and the Beats Chapter 3: The Continued Reception of the Beats Chapter 4: From Harvard to Millbrook: Timothy Leary Chapter 5: The Merry Prankster: Ken Kesey Chapter 6: The Magic Elixir of Sex and a Touch of Anarchism Chapter 7: The Magic in the Music Chapter 8: California Dreaming and Haight-Ashbury Chapter 9: Spreading the Word: Alternative Media Chapter 10: People of the Book Chapter 11: From the Human Be-In to the Summer of Love Chapter 12: The Death of Hippie and Early Postmortems Chapter 13: Alternative Living Chapter 14: From Hippie to Yippie on the Way to Revolution Chapter 15: Fighting in the Streets and the Latest Battle of the Bands Chapter 16: COINTELPRO and the Millennium Chapter 17: The Conspiracy, Street Fighting Man, and the Apocalypse Chapter 18: The Not So Slow Fade Chapter 19: It’s All Over Now Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.3.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: 1960s • 20th century • Baby boomers • Cold War • Counterculture • Hippies • Rock n Roll • 'The summer of love' • the women's movement • Twentieth century • United States history • Woodstock
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-4607-3 / 1442246073
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-4607-2 / 9781442246072