San Francisco and the Long 60s - Paperback

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San Francisco and the Long 60s - Paperback

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by Sarah Hill

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San Francisco and the Long 60s tells the fascinating story of the legacy of popular music in San Francisco between the years 1965-69. It is also a chronicle of the impact this brief cultural flowering has continued to have in the city - and more widely in American culture - right up to the present day. The aim of San Francisco and the Long 60s is to question the standard historical narrative of the time, situating the local popular music of the 1960s in the city's contemporary artistic and literary cultures: at once visionary and hallucinatory, experimental and traditional, singular and universal. These qualities defined the aesthetic experience of the local culture in the 1960s, and continue to inform the cultural and social life of the Bay Area even fifty years later.

The brief period 1965-69 marks the emergence of the psychedelic counterculture in the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood, the development of a local musical 'sound' into a mainstream international 'style', the mythologizing of the Haight-Ashbury as the destination for 'seekers' in the Summer of Love, and the ultimate dispersal of the original hippie community to outlying counties in the greater Bay Area and beyond. San Francisco and the Long 60s charts this period with the references to received historical accounts of the time, the musical, visual and literary communications from the counterculture, and retrospective glances from members of the 1960s Haight community via extensive first-hand interviews.

For more information, read Sarah Hill's blog posts here:

http: //blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/musicresearch/2014/05/15/san-francisco-and-the-long-60s
http: //blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/musicresearch/2014/08/22/city-scale/
http: //blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/musicresearch/2015/07/21/fare-thee-well/

Author Biography

Dr Sarah Hill is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Music, Cardiff University, UK and Co-ordinating Editor of Popular Music.

Number of Pages: 376

Dimensions: 1.1 x 9.07 x 6.01 IN

Publication Date: January 14, 2016

ISBN	9781628924213
Author	Sarah Hill
Publisher	Bloomsbury Academic
Genre	Young adult
Format	Paperback
Published	January 2016
Language	ENG- English
Pages	376
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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