Bibliograph

1966, the year the decade exploded, Jon Savage

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Label

1966, the year the decade exploded, Jon Savage

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-620), discography (pages 553-564), and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

1966

Nature of contents

bibliographydiscographies

Oclc number

930767429

Responsibility statement

Jon Savage

Sub title

the year the decade exploded

Summary

"The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966. In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas slow-cooking since the late '50s reached boiling point. In the worlds of pop, pop art, fashion and radical politics--often fueled by perception-enhancing substances and literature--the '60s hit their Modernist peak. After 1966 nothing in the pop world would ever be the same. The 7-inch single outsold the long-player for the last time. It was the year in which the transient pop moment burst forth in its most articulate, radical and long-lasting way. Exploring artists such as The Beatles, James Brown, Dusty Springfield, The Supremes, Love, the Velvet Underground and The Who, and taking in figures like Pauline Boty, Andy Warhol, Stokely Carmichael and Ronald Reagan, 1966 goes deep into the social and cultural heart of the decade through unique archival primary sources."--Front flap of jacket

Table Of Contents

January. A quiet explosion: CND, protest and the conspiracy of silence -- February. 19th nervous breakdown: British teen culture and the madness of swinging London -- March. The ballad of the Green Berets: the Vietnam War in America -- April. The third eye: LSD and its discontents -- May. Walkin' my cat named Dog: The feminine mystique and female independence -- June. I'll be your mirror: the Velvet Underground and Warhol's America -- July. Land of 1000 dances: Tamla, soul and the march against fear -- August. Do you come here often?: Joe Meek, gay rights and a summer of violence -- September. 7 and 7 is: provocations, shadows and a new language -- October. Winchester Cathedral: times past, present and future -- November. Good vibrations: Motown and soul in the UK, the Beach Boys and the Sunset Strip -- December. My mind's eye: dreams of freedom, a prophetic minority and the return to childhood

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Nineteen sixty-sixNineteen hundred and sixty-six

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