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UNINA9910784458803321 |
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Autore |
Gair Christopher <1961-> |
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Titolo |
The American counterculture / / Christopher Gair [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2007 |
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0-7486-7113-7 |
1-280-76243-8 |
9786610762439 |
0-7486-2909-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Counterculture - United States |
Popular culture - United States |
United States Social life and customs 1945-1970 |
Verenigde Staten |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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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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Part One: 1945-1960. Fiction -- Music -- Painting -- Film -- Part Two: 1961-1972. Fiction -- Music -- Painting -- Film. |
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The American counterculture played a major role during a pivotal moment in American history. Post-War prosperity combined with the social and political repression characteristic of middle-class life to produce both widespread civil disobedience and artistic creativity in the Baby Boomer generation. This introduction explores the relationship between the counterculture and American popular culture. It looks at the ways in which Hollywood and corporate record labels commodified and adapted countercultural texts, and the extent to which countercultural artists and their texts were appropriated. It offers an interdisciplinary account of the economic and social reasons for the emergence of the counterculture, and an appraisal of the key literary, musical, political and visual texts which were seen to challenge dominant ideologies. Key Features: *examines the ways in which texts were seen to be countercultural *assesses the extent to which they represented real opposition to cultural orthodoxies *scrutinises the notion of the counterculture *examines the limits to and achievements |
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