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Swinging City - A Cultural Geography of London 1950-1974 (Paperback)
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Swinging City - A Cultural Geography of London 1950-1974 (Paperback)
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This book works with two contrasting imaginings of 1960s London:
the one of the excess and comic vacuousness of Swinging London, the
other of the radical and experimental cultural politics generated
by the city's counterculture. The connections between these two
scenes are mapped looking firstly at the spectacular events that
shaped post-war London, then at the modernist physical and social
reconstruction of the city alongside artistic experiments such as
Pop and Op Art. Making extensive use of London's underground press
the book then explores the replacement of this seemingly
materialistic image with the counterculture of underground London
from the mid-1960s. Swinging City develops the argument that these
disparate threads cohere around a shared cosmology associated with
a new understanding of nature which differently positioned humanity
and technology. The book tracks a moment in the historical
geography of London during which the city asserts itself as a
post-imperial global city. Swinging London it argues, emerged as
the product of this recapitalisation, by absorbing avant-garde
developments from the provinces and a range of transnational,
mainly transatlantic, influences.
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