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UNINA9910453844503321 |
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Autore |
Monteith Sharon |
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Titolo |
American culture in the 1960s [[electronic resource] /] / Sharon Monteith |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-94765-2 |
9786611947651 |
0-7486-2903-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Collana |
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Twentieth-century American culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century |
Nineteen sixties |
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United States Civilization 1945- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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COVER; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1960's American Culture; Introduction: The Intellectual Context; Chapter 1 Music and Performance; Chapter 2 Film and Television; Chapter 3 Fiction and Poetry; Chapter 4 Art and Photography; Chapter 5 New Social Movements and Creative Dissent; Conclusion: The Sixties and its Cultural Legacy; Notes; Bibliography; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 1960's 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 |
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