TY  - GEN
T1  - The American counterculture
A1  - Gair, Christopher, 1961-
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2007
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn122335915
AB  - The American counterculture played a major role during a pivotal moment in American history. Post-War prosperity combined with the social and political repression characteristic of middle-class life to produce both widespread civil disobedience and artistic creativity in the Baby Boomer generation. This introduction explores the relationship between the counterculture and American popular culture. It looks at the ways in which Hollywood and corporate record labels commodified and adapted countercultural texts, and the extent to which countercultural artists and their texts were appropriated. It offers an interdisciplinary account of the economic and social reasons for the emergence of the counterculture, and an appraisal of the key literary, musical, political and visual texts which were seen to challenge dominant ideologies. Key Features: *examines the ways in which texts were seen to be countercultural*assesses the extent to which they represented real opposition to cultural orthodoxies*scrutinises the notion of the counterculture*examines the limits to and achievements of the counterculture*places key countercultural figures and texts in context of the shifting wider social and political climate of the United States*uses case studies to illuminate the text.
OP  - 234
CN  - HM647 .G35 2007eb
SN  - 9780748629091
SN  - 0748629092
SN  - 9780748671137
SN  - 0748671137
SN  - 1280762438
SN  - 9781280762437
SN  - 9786610762439
SN  - 6610762430
SN  - 9780748619887
SN  - 0748619887
SN  - 9780748619894
SN  - 0748619895
KW  - Counterculture : United States.
KW  - Counterculture : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - United States : Social life and customs : 1945-1970.
KW  - Popular culture : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Arts, American : 20th century.
KW  - Contre-culture : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - États-Unis : Mœurs et coutumes : 1945-1970.
KW  - Culture populaire : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Arts américains : 20e siècle.
KW  - Contre-culture : États-Unis.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Cultural Policy.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture.
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Arts, American
KW  - Counterculture
KW  - United States
KW  - Gegenkultur
KW  - USA
KW  - Subcultuur.
KW  - Verenigde Staten.
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -