ISBN:
9780748629039
,
0748629033
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online Ressource (xxix, 242 p.)
,
ill.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Serie:
Twentieth-century American culture
Paralleltitel:
Print version American culture in the 1960s
DDC:
306.097309046
Schlagwort(e):
Popular culture History
;
20th century
;
United States
;
Nineteen sixties Social aspects
;
United States
;
Popular culture History 20th century
;
Nineteen sixties Social aspects
;
Popular culture History 20th century
;
Nineteen sixties Social aspects
;
Civilization
;
Popular culture
;
Kultur
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
United States Civilization
;
1945-
;
United States Civilization 1945-
;
United States Civilization 1945-
;
United States
;
USA
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Chronology of 1960s American culture -- Introduction. Intellectual context -- 1. Music and performance -- 2. Film and television -- 3. Fiction and poetry -- 4. Art and photography -- 5. New social movements and creative dissent -- Conclusion. Sixties and its cultural legacy.
Kurzfassung:
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 cons
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748629039
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748629039
URL:
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