num_pages: 224
description: Jeff Nuttall's exploration of radical 1960s art, music, and protest movements. "Bomb Culture is an abscess that lances itself. An extreme book, unreasonable but not irrational. Abrasive, contemptuous, attitudinizing, ignorant and yet brilliant." - Dennis Potter.Jeff Nuttall's Bomb Culture has achieved legendary status as a powerful, informative, and spirited exploration of 1960s alternative society and counterculture. Nuttall's confessional account of the period investigates the sources of its radical art, music, and protest movements as well as the beliefs, anxieties, and conceits of its key agitators, including his own. Nuttall argued that a tangible psychic dread of nuclear holocaust pervaded both high and low cultures, determining their attitude and content, much as the horrors of World War I had nourished the tactics and aesthetics of Dadaism.Accompanying the original text is a new foreword by author Iain Sinclair, who was closely acquainted with Jeff Nuttall and participated in the turbulent underground culture described in Bomb Culture.
language: English
title: Bomb culture
titlecomplete: Bomb culture
characters: Tom McGrath, Alexander Trocchi, R.D. Laing
genres: Music, Nonfiction, Cultural Studies, Art, Sociology
ratings_count: 59
publisher: MacGibbon & Kee