Braunstein / Doyle Imagine Nation

The American Counterculture of the 1960's and 70's
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-05882-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 412 Seiten

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

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: 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

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.