1966 : the year the decade exploded
Savage, Jon2015
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The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966. In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas slow-cooking since the late '50s reached boiling point. In the worlds of pop, pop art, fashion and radical politics -- often fueled by perception-enhancing substances and literature -- the 'Sixties', as we have come to know them, hit their Modernist peak. A unique chemistry of ideas, substances, freedom of expression and dialogue across pop cultural continents created a landscape of immense and eventually shattering creativity. After 1966 nothing in the pop world would ever be the same. The 7 inch single outsold the long-player for the final time. It was the year in which the ever lasting and transient pop moment would burst forth in its most articulate, instinctive and radical way. Jon Savage's 1966 is a monument to the year that shaped the pop future of the balance of the century. Exploring canonical artists like The Beatles, The Byrds, Velvet Underground, The Who and The Kinks, 1966 also goes much deeper into the social and cultural heart of the decade through unique archival primary sources.
Main title:
1966 : the year the decade exploded / Jon Savage.
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Imprint:
London : Faber & faber, 2015.
Collation:
xii, 653 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 ACCELERATION -- 1.January -- A Quiet Explosion: CND, Protest and the Conspiracy of Silence -- 2.February -- 19th Nervous Breakdown: British Teen Culture and the Madness of Swinging London -- 3.March -- The Ballad of the Green Berets: The Vietnam War in America -- 4.April -- The Third Eye: LSD and Its Discontents -- 5.May -- Walkin' My Cat Named Dog: The Feminine Mystique and Female Independence -- 6.June -- I'll Be Your Mirror: The Velvet Underground and Warhol's America -- 7.July -- Land of 1000 Dances: Tamla, Soul and the March Against Fear -- 8.August -- Do You Come Here Often? Joe Meek, Gay Rights and a Summer of Violence -- pt. 2 EXPLOSION -- 9.September -- 7 And 7 Is: Provocations, Shadows and a New Language -- 10.October -- Winchester Cathedral: Times Past, Present and Future -- 11.November -- Good Vibrations: Motown and Soul in the UK, the Beach Boys and the Sunset Strip -- 12.December --Contents note continued: My Mind's Eye: Dreams of Freedom, a Prophetic Minority and the Return to Childhood Acknowledgements.
ISBN:
9780571277629
Dewey class:
781.6609046
Language:
English
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BRN:
269878
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Leisure | 781.6609046 SAV | Available |