This book pays homage to the counterculture movement through the
words and photographs of a select gathering of people who lived it.
At its height in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the counterculture
movement permeated every region of America as thousands of
activists took on the establishment. Although counterculture has
often been trivialised as dirty hippies and sex, drugs, and rock n
roll, committed activists formed powerful strands of resistance to
the political/military/industrial complex. American Indians,
Hispanos, Blacks, and Anglos joined in marches and protests --
often at their peril. Veterans of Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco,
communards in northern New Mexico, practitioners of drug-induced
mysticism, disciplined seekers of spiritual awakening,
back-to-the-landers, defenders of wilderness -- counterculturalists
all -- questioned, reframed, and redefined American and global
perspectives that remain to this day. The American Southwest became
a haven for individuals from both coasts seeking refuge in this
vast landscape. Many found an affinity with the native cultures and
local inhabitants who were already here. Others joined forces to
combat the Vietnam War, racial discrimination, and pillaging of the
environment. Still others founded communes based on diverse
cultures of practice. Movement leaders organised community events,
protests, and spoke for their generation; many used their talents
as writers, musicians, artists, and photographers to express their
angst and promote change. Jack Loeffler draws from his extensive
archive of recorded interviews and transcribed conversations with
contemporaries -- among them writers, artists, elders, activists,
and scholars -- including Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder, Edward Abbey,
Shonto Begay, Camillus Lopez, Tara Evonne Trudell, Roberta
Blackgoat, Richard Grow, Alvin Josephy, David Brower, Dave Foreman,
Elinor Ostrom, Fritjof Capra, and Melissa Savage. The book includes
personal essays by Yvonne Bond, Peter Coyote, Lisa Law, Peter
Rowan, Siddiq Hans von Briesen, Art Kopecky, Bill Steen, Sylvia
Rodriguez, Enrique R. Lamadrid, Levi Romero, the late Rina
Swentzell, Gary Paul Nabhan, Meredith Davidson, and Jack Loeffler.
It includes photographs by Lisa Law, Seth Roffman, Terrence Moore,
and others.
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