Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties

Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties
Author: Morris Dickstein
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2015-02-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1631490389

Widely admired as the definitive cultural history of the 1960s, this groundbreaking work finally reappears in a new edition. The turbulent 1960s, almost from its outset, produced a dizzying display of cultural images and ideas that were as colorful as the psychedelic T-shirts that became part of its iconography. It was not, however, until Morris Dickstein's landmark Gates of Eden, first published in 1977, that we could fully grasp the impact of this raucous decade in American history as a momentous cultural epoch in its own right, as much as Jazz Age America or Weimar Germany. From Ginsberg and Dylan to Vonnegut and Heller, this lasting work brilliantly re-creates not only the intellectual and political ferment of the decade but also its disillusionment. What results is an inestimable contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century American culture.

Gates Of Eden

Gates Of Eden
Author: Out Of Print
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1978-09-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780465097319

American culture of the 1960s.

America in White, Black, and Gray

America in White, Black, and Gray
Author: Klaus P. Fischer
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2007-05-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0826428266

Numerous studies on various aspects of the issues of the 1960s have been written over the past 35 years, but few have so successfully integrated the many-sided components into a coherent, synthetic, and reliable book that combines good storytelling with sound scholarly analysis.

American Culture in the 1960s

American Culture in the 1960s
Author: Sharon Monteith
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2008-10-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0748629033

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.

The Spirit of the Sixties

The Spirit of the Sixties
Author: James J. Farrell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136664912

The Spirit of the Sixties explains how and why the personal became political when Sixties activists confronted the institutions of American postwar culture. The Spirit of the Sixties uses political personalism to explain how and why the personal became political when Sixties activists confronted the institutions of American postwar culture. After establishing its origins in the Catholic Worker movement, the Beat generation, the civil rights movement, and Ban-the-Bomb protests, James Farrell demonstrates the impact of personalism on Sixties radicalism. Students, antiwar activists and counterculturalists all used personalist perspectives in the "here and now revolution" of the decade. These perspectives also persisted in American politics after the Sixties. Exploring the Sixties not just as history but as current affairs, Farrell revisits the perennial questions of human purpose and cultural practice contested in the decade.

The 1960s Cultural Revolution

The 1960s Cultural Revolution
Author: John C. McWilliams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2020-12-02
Genre: History
ISBN:

The 1960s Cultural Revolution is a highly readable and valuable resource revisiting personalities and events that sparked the cultural revolutions that have become synonymous with the 1960s. The 1960s Cultural Revolution: A Reference Guide is an engagingly written book that considers the forces that shaped the 1960s and made it the unique era that it was. An introductory historical overview provides context and puts the decade in perspective. With a focus on social and cultural history, subsequent chapters focus on the New Left, the antiwar movement, the counterculture, and 1968, a year that stands alone in American history. The book also includes a wealth of reference material, a comprehensive timeline of events, biographical profiles of key players, primary documents that enhance the significance of the social, political, and cultural climate, a glossary of key terms, and a carefully selected annotated bibliography of print and nonprint sources for further study.

A Fiction of the Past

A Fiction of the Past
Author: Dominick Cavallo
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 289
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 0312235011

Few events during that whirlwind of movements, conflicts and upheaval known as "the sixties" took Americans more by surprise, or were more likely to inspire their rage, than the rebellion of those who were young, white, and college educated. Perhaps none have been more maligned or misunderstood since. In A Fiction of the Past, Dominick Cavallo pushes past the contemporary fog of myth, cold disdain and warm nostalgia that shrouds the radical youth culture of the '60s. He explores how the furiously chaotic sixties sprang from the comparatively placid forties and fifties. The book digs beyond the post-World War II decades and seeks the historical sources of the youth culture in the distant American past. Cavallo shows how the sixties' most radical ideas and values were deeply etched in the American soul.

Too Much

Too Much
Author: Robert Hewison
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2023-02-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000873366

First published in 1986, Too Much records the tumultuous period between 1960 and 1975 when, more than at any other time in history, the arts were a battleground for the conflicting forces of social change. With the new affluence of the Sixties the cultural conformism of the previous decade was rejected in favour of new forms of expression. Pop Art, pop music, fringe theatre and performance poetry helped to create the semi-mythological image of ‘Swinging London.’ The liberation ethic was feted as it masked the insecurities of a society in decline but, as a real political challenge to the status quo, it also led to conflict. The confrontation between official culture and the underground came in 1968, a year with its own mythical resonance. This book will be of interest to students of art, media studies and cultural studies.

Neo-slave Narratives

Neo-slave Narratives
Author: Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1999-11-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198029004

NeoSlave Narratives is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a given literary form--the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. After discerning the social and historical factors surrounding the first appearance of that literary form in the 1960s, NeoSlave Narratives explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, while asking how African American intellectuals at different points between 1976 and 1990 remember and use the site of slavery to represent the crucial cultural debates that arose during the sixties.

The Beatles and Sixties Britain

The Beatles and Sixties Britain
Author: Marcus Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2020-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108477240

In this rigorous study, Marcus Collins reconceives the Beatles' social, cultural and political impact on sixties Britain.