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San Francisco and the Long 60s (Hardcover)
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San Francisco and the Long 60s (Hardcover)
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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/
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