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Title Between the Avant-Garde and the everyday : subversive politics in Europe from 1957 to the present / edited by Timothy Brown and Lorena Anton
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 294 pages) : illustrations
Series Protest, culture and society ; v. 6
Protest, culture and society ; v. 6.
Contents Gruppe spur : art as a revolutionary medium during the cold war / Mia Lee -- In pursuit of the invisible revolution : sigma in the Netherlands, 1966-1968 / Niek Pas -- "The brigade is everywhere" : violence and spectacle in the British counterculture / Samantha Christiansen -- Corpse polemics : the Third World and the politics of gore in 1960s West Germany / Quinn Slobodian -- Communist youth groups and rock music in Greece in the late 1970s / Nikolaos Papadogiannis -- The voice of the other America : African-American music and political protest in the German Democratic Republic / Michael Rauhut -- From England with hate : skinheads and "nazi rock" in Great Britain and Germany / Timothy Brown -- Punk jihads : immigrants, sub-cultures and political violence, 1955-2001 / Alexander Clarkson -- Red state, golden youth : student culture and political protest in 1960s Poland / Malgorzata Fidelis -- In the shadow of the wall : urban space and everyday life in Berlin Kreuzberg / Carla MacDougall -- Between confrontation and frivolity? : gender and militancy in the Czech alter-globalisation movement / Marta Kol?rov? -- Protesting bodies and bodily protest : a plea for a 'thinking through the body' in social movement research / Andrea Pabst -- Post-modern protest : minimal techno and multitude / Andrew Lison -- Conclusion / Timothy S. Brown
Summary The wave of anti-authoritarian political activity associated with the term "1968" can by no means be confined under the rubric of "protest," understood narrowly in terms of street marches and other reactions to state initiatives. Indeed, the actions generated in response to "1968" frequently involved attempts to elaborate resistance within the realm of culture generally, and in the arts in particular. This blurring of the boundary between art and politics was a characteristic development of the political activism of the postwar period. This volume brings together a group of essays concerned wi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Protest movements -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Youth movements -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Radicalism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Art and popular culture -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Counterculture -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Art and popular culture
Counterculture
Politics and government
Protest movements
Radicalism
Social conditions
Youth movements
Jugendbewegung
Protestbewegung
Radikalismus
Gegenkultur
Proteströrelser -- Europa -- 1957-
SUBJECT Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045759
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045750
Subject Europe
Europa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Brown, Timothy Scott, editor.
Anton, Lorena, editor.
LC no. 2010049900
ISBN 0857450794
9780857450791