Reviewed by Lindesay Irvine. George McKay's Senseless Acts of Beauty, Cultures of Resistance since the Sixties, is a revisionist history of those aspects of British youth culture which can reasonably be understood as 'counter-cultural'. The second revisionist aspect of the book is its belief in the value of these movements.
Youth culture is now closer to radical politics than at any time since the days of punk.
Squatters, travellers, ravers, activists - the common denominator of the movement is the demand for free space. We beware of substitutes. Reality's a substitute for Utopia. You can give a rating to this scheme overall. Click 0-10 below and press the Submit button.