The American counterculture:
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Main Author: Gair, Christopher 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press c2007
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Online Access:UBW01
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction; Acknowledgements; Notes; Introduction; Chapter One -- Fiction; Chapter Two -- Music; Chapter Three -- Painting; Chapter Four -- Film; Introduction; Chapter Five -- Fiction; Chapter Six -- Music; Chapter Seven -- Painting; Chapter Eight -- Film; Index
The American counterculture played a major role during a pivotal moment in American history. Post-War prosperity combined with the social and political repression characteristic of middle-class life to produce both widespread civil disobedience and artistic creativity in the Baby Boomer generation. This introduction explores the relationship between the counterculture and American popular culture. It looks at the ways in which Hollywood and corporate record labels commodified and adapted countercultural texts, and the extent to which countercultural artists and their texts were appropriated. I.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (234 p.)
ISBN:9780748629091
0748629092

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