American Culture in the 1960s Hardback
by Sharon Monteith
Edited by Martin Halliwell
Part of the Twentieth-century American Culture series
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This book charts the changing complexion of American culture in one of the most culturally vibrant of twentieth-century decades.
It provides a vivid account of the major cultural forms of 1960s America - music and performance; film and television; fiction and poetry; art and photography - as well as influential texts, trends and figures of the decade: from Norman Mailer to Susan Sontag; from Muhammad Ali's anti-war protests to Tom Lehrer's stand-up comedy; from Bob Dylan to Rachel Carson; and from Pop Art to photojournalism.
A chapter on new social movements demonstrates that a current of conservatism runs through even the most revolutionary movements of the 1960s and the book as a whole looks to the West and especially to the South in the making of the sixties as myth and as history.
Key Features: * Focused case studies featuring key texts, genres, writers, artists and cultural trends * Detailed chronology of 1960s American culture * Bibliographies for each chapter * Over 30 black and white illustrations
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages, 33 black & white illustrations, 33 black and white illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:08/10/2008
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- ISBN:9780748619467
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages, 33 black & white illustrations, 33 black and white illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:08/10/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780748619467