San Francisco and the Long 60s

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San Francisco and the Long 60s tells the fascinating story of the legacy of popular music in San Francisco between the years 1965-69. 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 city’s 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 1965-69 marks the emergence of the psychedelic counterculture in the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood, the development of a local musical ‘sound’ into a mainstream international ‘style’, the mythologizing of the Haight-Ashbury 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 first-hand interviews. For more information, read Sarah Hill's blog posts here: http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/musicresearch/2014/05/15/san-francisco-and-the-long-60s http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/musicresearch/2014/08/22/city-scale/ http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/musicresearch/2015/07/21/fare-thee-well/ Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1 Introduction: Ripples Notes The Short 60s Chapter 2 Prelude: City Scale Notes Chapter 3 Into “The 60s” Notes Chapter 4 1965 The Acid Tests The Matrix The Red Dog Saloon The Mime Troupe Notes Some Notes on Songs The Beau Brummels, “Laugh Laugh” The Grateful Dead, “The Only Time is Now” Notes Chapter 5 1966 The Trips Festival The Haight The psychedelic experience Dancehall concerts Sensory environment Poster art Light shows The Fillmore The Avalon The Oracle Notes Sons of Champlin, “Sing Me a Rainbow” The Great!! Society!!, “Someone to Love” Notes Chapter 6 1967 The Human Be-In KMPX Free love Moby Grape Monterey Pop Rolling Stone Notes Sopwith Camel, “Hello Hello” Country Joe & the Fish, “Section 43” Notes Chapter 7 1968 Denver Dog The Phoenix The second wave Notes Blue Cheer, “Summertime Blues” Quicksilver Messenger Service, “The Fool” Notes Chapter 8 1969 The Bay Area at Woodstock Altamont Notes Sly and the family stone, “Everyday People” It’s a Beautiful Day, “White Bird” Notes The Long 60s Chapter 9 Psychedelia and Its High Other The long: In C The short: It’s Gonna Rain Notes Chapter 10 Postlude: The Dharma at Big Sur Notes Chapter 11 Hippies, Inc. Notes Chapter 12 Gatherings of the Tribe Notes Chapter 13 The Grateful Dead Archive Notes Notes on Interviewees Bibliography Index