Pop dreams : music, movies, and the media in the 1960s

Author(s)

• Loss, Archie K. (Archie Krug)

Bibliographic Information

Pop dreams : music, movies, and the media in the 1960s

Archie K. Loss

（Harbrace books on America since 1945）

Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c1999

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-221) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In one compact volume, POP DREAMS analyzes the trends, events, and personalities that influenced American culture from 1945 to 1970. The discussion broadens students' understanding of major events in popular culture by putting those events in historical context.

Table of Contents

• Introduction - popular culture in the American 1960s
• searching for a centre - conformity and consensus in postwar America
• "We shall overcome" - the Civil Rights movement and the early sixties
• "Give peace a chance" - Vietnam and the antiwar movement
• "I want to take you higher" - the forming of the counterculture
• back to the future - the conservative resurgence
• in from the margins - the women's movement and the beginning of identity politics
• adding it up - the sixties and American culture today.

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Details

• NCID: BA65281099
• ISBN:
  • 0155041460
• LCCN: 98072416
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Fort Worth, TX
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 232 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P92.U5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mass media -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA45838924