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Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll
The Rise of America’s 1960s Counterculture
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2015
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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.
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Edition
1/2015
Copyright Year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-4606-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-4607-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
437
Product Type
Monograph
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Preface No access
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1 The Precursors: From Utopia to Huxley No access Pages 1 - 16
2 Troubadours for a New American Bohemia: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and the Beats No access Pages 17 - 38
3 The Continued Reception of the Beats No access Pages 39 - 64
4 From Harvard to Millbrook: Timothy Leary No access Pages 65 - 88
5 The Merry Prankster: Ken Kesey No access Pages 89 - 104
6 The Magic Elixir of Sex and a Touch of Anarchism No access Pages 105 - 122
7 The Magic in the Music No access Pages 123 - 136
8 California Dreaming and Haight-Ashbury No access Pages 137 - 154
9 Spreading the Word: Alternative Media No access Pages 155 - 170
10 People of the Book No access Pages 171 - 194
11 From the Human Be-In to the Summer of Love No access Pages 195 - 216
12 The Death of Hippie and Early Postmortems No access Pages 217 - 230
13 Alternative Living No access Pages 231 - 250
14 From Hippie to Yippie on the Way to Revolution No access Pages 251 - 270
15 Fighting in the Streets and the Latest Battle of the Bands No access Pages 271 - 284
16 COINTELPRO and the Millennium No access Pages 285 - 304
17 The Conspiracy, Street Fighting Man, and the Apocalypse No access Pages 305 - 318
