Title: Dig
Description: "From the vantage of hipness, the dominant culture constitutes a system bent on excluding creativity, self-awareness, and self-expression. The hipster's project is thus to define himself against this system, to resist being stamped in its uniform square mold. Ford explores radio shows, films, novels, poems, essays, jokes, and political manifestos, but argues that music more than any other form of expression has shaped the alienated hipster's identity."--Book jacket.
Subjects: Popular music, Intellectual life, History and criticism, Influence, Beats (Persons), Civilization, Music, Counterculture, History, Popular music, history and criticism, Music, social aspects, Social aspects
Places: United States
Time periods: 1941-1950, 1951-1960, 20th century, 1961-1970