San Francisco and the long 60s
By: Sarah Hill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9781628924213; 9781628924206
Subjects: Social life and customs; Popular music; Analysis, appreciation; Rock music; Nineteen sixties; History and criticism; History
Description: San Francisco and the Long 60s tells the fascinating story of the legacy of popular music in San Francisco between the years 1965-69. It is also a chronicle of the impact this brief cultural flowering has continued to have in the city--and more widely in American culture--right up to the present day. The aim of San Francisco and the Long 60s is to question the standard historical narrative of the time, situating the local popular music of the 1960s in the city's contemporary artistic and literary cultures: at once visionary and hallucinatory, experimental and traditional, singular and universal. These qualities defined the aesthetic experience of the local culture in the 1960s, and continue to inform the cultural and social life of the Bay Area even fifty years later. The brief period 1965-69 marks the emergence of the psychedelic counterculture in the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood, the development of a local musical 'sound' into a mainstream international 'style', the mythologizing of the Haight-Ashbury as the destination for 'seekers' in the Summer of Love, and the ultimate dispersal of the original hippie community to outlying counties in the greater Bay Area and beyond. San Francisco and the Long 60s charts this period with the references to received historical accounts of the time, the musical, visual and literary communications from the counterculture, and retrospective glances from members of the 1960s Haight community via extensive first-hand interviews [Publisher description]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-347) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Ripples; title: The short 60s. Prelude: City scale ; Into "the 60s" ; 1965: "Laugh laugh" "The only time is now" ; 1966: "Sing me a rainbow" "Someone to love" ; 1967: "Hello hello" "Section 43" ; 1968: "Summertime blues" "The fool" ; 1969: "Everyday people" "White bird"; title: The long 60s. Psychedelia and its high other ; Postlude: The dharma at BIg Sur ; Hippies, Inc. ; Gatherings of the tribe ; The Grateful Dead Archive.