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Title Go Melbourne : Melbourne in the sixties / edited by Sean O'Hanlon and Tanja Luckins
Published Beaconsfield, Vic. : Circa, 2005

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 MELB  994.5105 Oha/Gme  AVAILABLE
Description xxii, 284 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents Setting the scene: the idea of the sixties / Tanja Luckins and Seamus O'Hanlon -- 1. Personal and public life in Melbourne in the 1960s: skewed memories of faltering faiths and false gods / Brian Matthews -- 2. The Melbourne theatre scene: a personal perspective / John Rickard -- 3. City in the self: Melbourne 1968-70 as seen from the margins / Robert Wolfgramm -- 4. 'Where all the action is, man': youth culture in 1960s Melbourne / Seamus O'Hanlon -- 5. Beatlemania: the Beatles in Melbourne 1964 / Keith Moore -- 6. Jean Shrimpton, the 'four-inch furore' and perceptions of Melbourne identity in the 1960s / Sylvia Harrison -- 7. Consereving a past for the consolidation of the present: aspects of Jewish music culture in Melbourne in the 1960s / Bronia Kornhauser -- 8. Arrested developments of from The heroes are tired to The tomb of Ligeia: some notes on the place of the Melbourne University Film Society in the 1960s film culture / Adrian Danks -- 9. Living with the motor car: rival versions of the automobilised metropolis / Graeme Davison -- 10. Whose problem? Experts and the working mother in 1960s Melbourne / Pat Grimshaw, Shurlee Swain and Ellen Warne -- 11. Olive oil, eggplants and haloumi cheese: food availablity and the maintenance of Greek-Cypriot migrant food cultures in Melbourne in the 1960s / Tina Kalivas -- 12. '... in love with a cafe and what he could buy ...'. Commodity, desire and the tranformation of dining out in 1960s Melbourne / Diane Kirkby -- 13. 'Time, gentlemen, please': the end of six o'clock closing and the 'post-swill' pub / Tanja Lukins -- 14. Camp Melbourne in the 1960s / Graham Willett
15. When 'Clown Hall' really was town hall: Melbourne City Council in the 1960s / David Dunstan and John Young -- 16. The spirit of Melbourne: 1960s urban activism in inner-city Melbourne / Renate Howe -- 17. 'A fresco that can be lived': the alternative press in Melbourne in the 1960s / David Nichols -- 18. Becoming Australians by choice: Greek-Australian activism in 1960s Melbourne / George Vassilacopoulos and Toula Nicolacopoulos -- 19. Campaigns, petitions, vigils and marches: Aboriginal rights / Sue Taffe
Summary Takes a close look at the many cultural changes of the Sixties and how they affected the seemingly conservative city of Melbourne - and questions modern-day views about the way times actually did change
Analysis Social history (Australia,Victoria)
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Social history -- 1960-1970.
Nineteen sixties.
Social history -- Australia -- Melbourne (Vic.) -- 1960-1970
SUBJECT Melbourne (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029787 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- 1960's
Melbourne (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029787 -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008861
Melbourne (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029787 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- 1945-1965
Melbourne (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029787 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- 1965-1972
Melbourne (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029787 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
Melbourne (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79029787 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Author O'Hanlon, Sean
Luckins, Tanja.
LC no. 00002755
ISBN 0975780204 :
Other Titles Go! : Melbourne in the sixties