Imagine Nation The American Counterculture of the 1960's And 70's

Name: Imagine Nation The American Counterculture of the 1960's And 70's
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ISBN: 9780415930406

ISBN-10: 0415930405

ISBN-13: 9780415930406

Edition: 2002

Authors: Peter Braunstein, Michael William Doyle

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Covering topics such as feminism, guerrilla theatre, the New Left, communal living, underground comics and avant-garde film, this book offers interpretations of how the counterculture of the 1960s irrevocably changed American society.

Book details

List price: $51.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/19/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 412
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Braunstein is a journalist and cultural historian based in New York City. He received his M.A. from New York University.

Doyle worked in the new wave food co-op movement during the 1970s while living communally on an organic farm he helped found in Wisconsin. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and is currently Assistant Professor of History at Ball State University.



Foreword



Introduction: Historicizing the American Counterculture of the 1960s and '70s




Deconditioning


Section Introduction



The Intoxicated State/Illegal Nation: Drugs in the Sixties Counterculture




From "Consciousness Expansion" to "Consciousness Raising": Feminism and the Countercultural Politics of the Self




Cultural Politics


Section Introduction



Staging the Revolution: Guerrilla Theater as a Countercultural Practice, 1965-68




"The Revolution Is about Our Lives": The New Left's Counterculture




The White Panthers' "Total Assault on the Culture"




Identity


Section Introduction



Counterculture Indians and the New Age




Voodoo Child: Jimi Hendrix and the Politics of Race in the Sixties




Gay Gatherings: Reimagining the Counterculture




Pop Culture and Mass Media


Section Introduction



Forever Young: Insurgent youth and the Sixties Culture of Rejuvenation




"The Movies Are a Revolution": Film and the Counterculture




Sex as a Weapon: Underground Comix and the Paradox of Liberation




Alternative Visions


Section Introduction



The Sixties-Era Communes




"Machines of Loving Grace": Alternative Technology, Environment, and the Counterculture



Contributors


Index