Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Framing Utopia: Monterey Pop and the Heart of the Counterculture -- 2. Creating the Downfall: Gimme Shelter and the "End" of the Counterculture -- 3. Searching for the Real Times, Baby: Head and the Unmaking of the Monkees -- 4. Love in Counterculture Film: Music's Diplomatic Role in Harold and Maude -- 5. Space Is the Place: Barbarella and Hearing the Future -- 6. Did the Soundtrack Also Blow It?: Using Rock to Capture Counterculture Generational Identity -- 7. Setting the Escapist Scene with Music: Sex and Comedy in an Exotic World -- 8. Generational Genocide: Selling Youth Rebellion in Roger Corman's Gas-s-s-s -- 9. African American Artists in Hollywood: Isaac Hayes' Contribution to Shaft -- 10. I'm Watching It for Its Music: Deep Throat and Its Soundtrack -- 11. Challenging Normativity and Pushing Boundaries: Midnight Cowboy and Cultural Resistance -- 12. Ambiguous Meaning of Music: Combining Technology and Music in the Dystopian World of A Clockwork Orange -- 13. Understanding Country Ways: A Talk with Country Joe McDonald About Counterculture Film -- 14. Bringing the 1960s to Life: An Interview with Director Robert Greenwald -- Coda -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary
"Films produced in late 1960s and early 1970s America continue to frame our understanding of the counterculture era. A study of contemporary film soundtracks reveals a great deal of complexity. The coinciding struggles to define collective and individual identities based on race, class, gender and generation is well documented in the music of counterculture cinema"-- Provided by publisher
