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Baby Boomers and Popular Culture - An Inquiry into America's Most Powerful Generation (Hardcover)
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Baby Boomers and Popular Culture - An Inquiry into America's Most Powerful Generation (Hardcover)
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The Boomers are the generation that changed everything, from
economics to politics to popular culture. This book examines the
myriad ways and long-reaching consequences of the now fully "grown
up" Baby Boomer generation on America. Once upon a time, the
members of the Baby Boomer generation were young, idealistic, and
hungry to change the world. And they did create sweeping,
irreversible changes throughout American society-but probably not
in the ways their younger selves imagined they would. Now that the
Boomers are in their late-adult or retirement years, their
tremendous legacy can clearly be perceived. In retrospect, the
paths the members of this generation took to come to power-and how
they came to terms with that power-are also apparent. This
single-volume work supplies a broad yet detailed critical guide to
the Boomer Generation, containing essays on key people, moments,
and phenomena not only during the Boomers' 1960s heyday but also
their extensive influences on American culture decades afterward.
The contributors address key topics such as the rise of feminism;
Civil Rights; the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement; the
Beatles, the Grateful Dead, and rock 'n roll; gay rights; idealism,
narcissism, and materialism; the influence of television on
America, and vice versa; and the transition of Boomers from being
"Yippies" to "Yuppies." This work is an ideal text for students in
undergraduate or graduate courses in television studies, media
studies, cultural studies, and American studies; and is highly
appropriate as a supplemental text in literature, history, and
philosophy surveys. Supplies comprehensive, critical analysis of
the legacy of the Boomer Generation that examines the benefits and
drawbacks of the enormous changes this generation of Americans
instituted Presents accessible but rigorous, scholarly analysis
from a broad range of experts in multiple fields Spotlights the
ways in which pop culture at large has responded to the Boomers'
influence or example-sometimes in vehement opposition and at other
times with imitation or flattery
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