Imagine Nation

The American Counterculture of the 1960's and 70's
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-93040-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to unearth the complexity and rediscover the society-changing power of significant movements and figures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Braunstein, Peter

Doyle, Michael William

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 01 Foreword, Marilyn B. Young; Chapter 02 Introduction, Peter Braunstein, michael William Doyle; Part 1 Deconditioning; Chapter 03 The Intoxicated State/Illegal nation, David Farber; Chapter 04 From Consciousness Expansion to Consciousness Raising, Debra Michals; Part 03 Cultural Politics; Chapter 05 Staging the Revolution, Michael William Doyle; Chapter 06 The Revolution is about Our Lives, Doug Rossinow; Chapter 07 The White Panthers' Total Assault on the Culture, Jeff A. Hale; Part 05 Identity; Chapter 08 Counterculture Indians and the New Age, Philip Deloria; Chapter 09 Voodoo Child, Lauren Onkey; Chapter 10 Gay Gatherings, Robert McRuer; Part 07 Pop Culture and Mass Media; Chapter 11 Forever Young, Peter Braunstein; Chapter 12 The Movies are a Revolution, David E. James; Chapter 13 Sex as a Weapon, Beth Bailey; Part 09 Alternative Visions; Chapter 14 The Sixties-Era Communes, Timothy miller; Chapter 15 Machines of Loving Grace, Andrew Kirk;

Leseproben

Marilyn B. Young
Introduction: Historicizing the American Counterculture of the 1960s and '70s
Peter Braunstein and Michael William Doyle
Section 1: Deconditioning
Section Introduction
1. The Intoxicated State/Illegal Nation: Drugs in the Sixties Counterculture
David Farber
2. From "Consciousness Expansion" to "Consciousness Raising": Feminism and the Countercultural Politics of the Self
Debra Michals
Section 2: Cultural Politics
Section Introduction
3. Staging the Revolution: Guerrilla Theater as a Countercultural Practice, 1965-68
Michael William Doyle
4. "The Revolution Is About Our Lives": The New Left's Counterculture
Doug Rossinow
5. The White Panthers' "Total Assault on the Culture"
Jeff A. Hale
Section 3: Identity
6. Counterculture Indians and the New Age
Philip Deloria
7. Voodoo Child: Jimi Hendrix and the Politics of Race in the Sixties
Lauren Onkey
8. Gay Gatherings: Reimagining the Counterculture
Robert McRuer
Section 4: Pop Culture and Mass Media
Section Introduction
9. Forever Young: Insurgent Youth and the Sixties Culture of Rejuvenation
Peter Braunstein
10. "The Movies Are a Revolution": Film and the Counterculture
David E. James
11. Sex as a Weapon: Underground Comix and the Paradox of Liberation
Beth Bailey
Section 5: Alternative Visions
Section Introduction
12. The Sixties-Era Communes
Timothy Miller
13. "Machines of Loving Grace": Alternative Technology, Environment, and the Counterculture
Andrew Kirk
Contributors
Index

Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to unearth the complexity and rediscover the society-changing power of significant movements and figures.

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Braunstein is a journalist and cultural historian based in New York City. He writes about fashion, film, celebrity, the 1960s, music, technology, and pop culture for such publications as the Village Voice, Forbes, American Heritage, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Women's Wear Daily, W, and culturefront. He received his M.A. from New York University in 1992, having written a thesis on the Haight-Ashbury counterculture.
Michael William Doyle worked in the new-wave food co-op movement during the 1970s while living communally on an organic farm he helped found in Wisconsin. He went on to earn a B.A. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1989), and a Ph.D. at Cornell University (1997). He is currently Assistant Professor of History at Ball State University at Muncie, Indiana. He is the author of Free Radicals: The Haight-Ashbury Diggers and the American Counterculture in the 1960s.