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Nadya Zimmerman - Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco - 9780472115587 - V9780472115587
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Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco

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Description for Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco Hardcover. Explores the traditions represented in the cultural and musical practices of the late Sixties San Francisco counterculture. This book examines primary source material to demonstrate that the San Francisco counterculture in 1966-67 displayed no interest in commitment to a cause - embracing everything in general, but nothing in particular. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJPK; AVG; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.

Forty years after the fact, 1960s counterculture---personified by hippies, protest, and the Summer of Love---basks in a nostalgic glow in the popular imagination as a turning point in modern American history and the end of the age of innocence. Yet, while the era has come to be synonymous with rebellion and opposition, its truth is much more complex.

In a bold reconsideration of the late sixties San Francisco counterculture movement, Counterculture Kaleidoscope takes a close look at the cultural and musical practices of that era. Addressing the conventional wisdom that the movement was grounded in rebellion and opposition, the book exposes ... Read more

Seeking an alternative to the now common narrative, Nadya Zimmerman examines primary source material including music, artwork, popular literature, personal narratives, and firsthand historical accounts. She reveals that the San Francisco counterculture wasn't interested in commitments to causes and made no association with divisive issues---that it embraced everything in general and nothing in particular.

"Astute and accessible, Counterculture Kaleidoscope provides thought-provoking insights into the historical, cultural and social context of the San Francisco counter-culture and its music scene, including discussions of Vietnam and student protest, the Haight-Ashbury Diggers, the Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Altamont, and Charlie Manson. A must for students and scholars of socio-musical activity and for all of us to whom music matters."
---Sheila Whiteley, author of The Space Between the Notes: Rock and the Counter-Culture and Too Much Too Young: Popular Music, Age and Gender

"The hippie counterculture has never garnered the scholarly attention accorded the new left and the black freedom struggle. Overviews of the period ritualistically mention it as part and parcel of that apparently incandescent era---the Sixties---but rarely capture its distinctiveness. Counterculture Kaleidoscope is a timely and provocative intervention in Sixties scholarship that significantly deepens our understanding of this important but understudied phenomenon."
—Alice Echols, Associate Professor, University of Southern California, and author of Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472115587
SKU
V9780472115587
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Ref
99-50

About Nadya Zimmerman
Nadya Zimmerman received her Ph.D. in musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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