San Francisco and the long 60s

Description

Overview: 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. Content: Introduction: Ripples -- Prelude: City Scale -- Into "The 60s" -- 1965. Laugh laugh The only time is now -- 1966. Sing me a rainbow Someone to love -- 1967. Hello hello Section 43 -- 1968. Summertime blues The fool -- 1969. Everyday people White bird -- Psychedelia and Its High Other -- Postlude: The Dharma at Big Sur -- Hippies, Inc. -- Gatherings of the Tribe -- The Grateful Dead Archive.