San Francisco and the Long 60s tells the fascinating story of the legacy of popular music in San Francisco between the years 196569. 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 citys 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 196569 marks the emergence of the psychedelic counterculture in the HaightAshbury neighbourhood, the development of a local musical sound into a mainstream international style, the mythologizing of the HaightAshbury 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 firsthand interviews.For more information,...

Binding: Paperback;372 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: N/A; Weight: 618.5 g; Dimensions: N/A

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