American culture in the 1960s [electronic resource] / Sharon Monteith.
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
c2008.
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| Series: | Twentieth-Century American Culture
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxix, 242 p.) : ill. |
| Other format: | Print version: Monteith, Sharon. American culture in the 1960s. 0748619461 |
| Notes: | Bib#: 1927989 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (P. [225]-235) and index. |
| Series: | Twentieth-century American culture
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| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9780748629039 (electronic bk.) 0748629033 (electronic bk.) |
| Bib#: | 1927989 |
