| Description |
viii, 287 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Bart Moore-Gilbert and John Seed -- 2. Hegemony postponed: the unravelling of the culture of consensus in Britain in the 1960s / John Seed -- 3. The new radicalism: the politics of culture in Britain, America and France, 1956-73 / Alf Louvre -- 4. The politics of culture: institutional change / Stuart Laing -- 5. From equality to liberation: contextualizing the emergence of the Women's Liberation Movement / Jane Lewis -- 6. A critical stage: drama in the 1960s / Martin Priestman -- 7. Inside the liberal heartland: television and the popular imagination in the 1960s / Jeremy Ridgman -- 8. British poetry and its discontents / Robert Sheppard -- 9. The return of the repressed: Gothic and the 1960s novel / Bart Moore-Gilbert -- 10. Step by step: the cautious revolution in dance / Judith Mackrell -- 11. New waves and old myths: British cinema in the 1960s / Jeffrey Richards -- 12. Still crazy after all these years: what was popular music in the 1960s? / Dave Harker -- 13. Caro verbum factus est: British art in the 1960s? / Stuart Sillars |
| Summary |
Are the cultural upheavals of the 1960s nothing more than a media myth, recycled as endless nostalgia? Woodstock, the Summer of Love, student protests, the debacle that was the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago evoke a period of material prosperity, cultural innovation, and youthful rebellion. But how far did the radical aspirations and utopian ideals really go? And what is the legacy of the social, political, and cultural transformations which characterized the decade? In an interdisciplinary collection of specially commissioned essays, Cultural revolution? uncovers the complex economic and political contexts in which these changes took place. Covering a wide variety of art forms--drama, television, music, film, poetry, literature, and the visual arts--the contributors investigate how the culture of the 1960s became politicized, and how its inherent contradictions still have repercussions for the arts today. Cultural revolution? will be an important resource for students and teachers involved in cultural studies, and media and communication studies |
| Analysis |
Arts History |
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Great Britain |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Arts and society -- Great Britain.
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Arts, British -- Themes, motives.
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Arts, British -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- Great Britain -- Themes, motives.
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| Author |
Moore-Gilbert, B. J., 1952-
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Seed, John, 1950-
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| LC no. |
91037597 |
| ISBN |
0415078245 |
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0415078253 (paperback) |
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