Groove Tube
Subtitle: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion (Console-ing Passions)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: February 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780822326458
Subjects: American studies; Media studies; Popular culture; c 1960 to c 1970; Sociology; Popular Culture - General; Social Science; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; United States - 20th Century; USA; Television - History & Criticism; United States - 20th Century/60s; Cultural Studies; Film & Television Studies; 1960-1980; New Left; Social conditions; Television and youth; United States
First sentence: In 1949 an enormous RCA Starrett television set arrived in the home of writer Donald Bowie.
Description: Explores the discrepancy between youth culture as it unfolded on the streets and how it was packaged as lowest-common-denominator mass entertainment. Includes Skip Williamson's vintage comic strip and information on the Monkees.