1966
Subtitle: the year the decade exploded
By: Jon Savage
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 653
ISBN-13: 9780571277629
Subjects: Nineteen sixty-six, A.D.; Protest movements; Social aspects; Nineteen sixties; Popular culture; History and criticism; Rock music; Political activists; History
Other titles: Year the decade exploded
Description: 1966 was a year of noise and tumult, of brightly colored patterns clashing with black and white politics, of furious forward motion and an outraged, awakening reaction. There remains an urgency that marks the music and movies of that year, counterbalanced by traces of loss, disconnection and deep melancholy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 553-564), and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1, Acceleration. January. A quiet explosion : CND, protest and the conspiracy of silence; title: February. 19th nervous breakdown : British teen culture and the madness of swinging London; title: March. The ballad of the Green Berets : the Vietnam War in America; title: April. The third eye : LSD and its discontents; title: May. Walkin' my cat named dog : The feminine mystique and Female independence; title: June. I'll be your mirror : The Velvet Underground and Warhol's America; title: July. Land of 1000 dances : Tamla, soul and the March Against Fear; title: August. Do you come here often? Joe Meek, gay rights and a summer of violence; title: Part 2, Explosion. September. 7 and 7 is : provocations, shadows and a new language; title: October. Winchester Cathedral : times past, present and future; title: November. Good vibrations : Motown and soul in the UK, the Beach Boys and the Sunset Strip; title: December. My mind's eye : dreams of freedom, a prophetic minority and the return to childhood.