American Culture in the 1960s (Twentieth Century American Culture EUP)(Repost)
American Culture in the 1960s (Twentieth Century American Culture EUP) by Sharon Monteith
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0748619461 | 272 Pages | PDF | 1.45 MB
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0748619461 | 272 Pages | PDF | 1.45 MB
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 conservatism runs through even the most revolutionary movements of the 1960s and the book as a whole looks to the West and especially to the South in the making of the sixties as myth and as history.