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Author Monteith, Sharon.

Title American culture in the 1960s / Sharon Monteith
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 242 pages) : illustrations
Series Twentieth-century American culture
Twentieth-century American culture.
Contents Chronology of 1960s American culture -- Introduction. Intellectual context -- 1. Music and performance -- 2. Film and television -- 3. Fiction and poetry -- 4. Art and photography -- 5. New social movements and creative dissent -- Conclusion. Sixties and its cultural legacy
Summary 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 1960s 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 of cons
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Nineteen sixties -- Social aspects -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Civilization
Popular culture
Kultur
Cultural studies -- c 1960 to c 1970 -- USA.
Populärkultur, USA, 1960-t.
USA, 1960-t.
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139945
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780748629039
0748629033