Cultural Revolution? / Edition 1

by Bart Moore-Gilbert, Dr Bart Moore-Gilbert, John Seed

Overview

Are the cultural upheavals of the sixties just a media myth? The Summer of Love with its ambience of marijuana and sitar music, the glitterati of Swinging London, and student protesters battling with the police evoke a period of material prosperity, cultural innovation and youthful rebellion. But how significant were the radical aspirations and utopian ideals of the sixties? And what is the legacy of the social, political and cultural transformations which characterized the decade? In an interdisciplinary collection of specially commissioned essays, the contributors to Cultural Revolution uncover the complex economic and political contexts in which these changes took place. Covering a wide variety of art forms - drama, television, film, poetry, the novel, popular music, dance, cinema and the visual arts - they investigate how sixties' culture became politicized, and how its inherent contradictions still have repercussions for the arts today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415078245
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/11/1992
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1480L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Bart Moore-Gilbert, Dr Bart Moore-Gilbert, John Seed

Table of Contents

Contributors:
John Seed, Bart Moore-Gilbert, Alf Louvre, Stuart Laing, Jane Lewis, Martin Priestman, Jeremy Ridgman, Robert Sheppard, Jude Mackrell, Jeffrey Richards, Dave Harker, Stuart Sillars.