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Autore: | Monteith Sharon |
Titolo: | American culture in the 1960s / / Sharon Monteith |
Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.097309046 |
Soggetto topico: | Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century |
Nineteen sixties | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Civilization 1945- |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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; |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | American culture in the 1960s |
ISBN: | 1-281-94765-2 |
9786611947651 | |
0-7486-2903-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910818584603321 |
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