All Dressed Up: Sixties and the Counterculture - Hardcover

Green, Jonathon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224043226 ISBN 13: 9780224043229

Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1998

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Reseña del editor:

Johnathan Green's oral history of the sixties 'underground', Days in the Life, has been until now the most complete account of that celebrated (and much maligned) decade. In All Dressed Up he expands on that book to provide a facsinating and controversial overview of the cultural and political events of the decade. Comprehensive, detailed, often hilarious, this will be the definitive account of the sixties in Britain, challenging the myths fostered by those who were there and enlightening those who were not. Green's sixties begins with the invention of the 'teenager' with the Teds, the Beats and CND; it ends with the Oz trial and with two of the decade's most lasting legacies: the women's movement and gay politics. In between his focus is on the whole panoply od that extrordinary decade, from sex, drugs and rock'n' rol to student protest, the anti-Vietnam movement and the radical social legislation-abortion, obscenity, homosexuality and capital punishment-pioneered by Roy Jenkins. The underground press, the Arts Lab, 'Swinging London', Anti psychiatry, the hippie trail, the festivals, the drug busts...Green surveys them all with affectionate but critical eye, celebrating the prevailing optomism of the sixties while remaining far from blind to its absurdities.

Biografía del autor:

Jonathon Green is the author of three works of oral history, including Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground (recently reissued by Pimlico). England's leading lexicographer of slang and jargon, he broadcasts regularly on language topics, and is the author of many dicitionaries and a history of lexicography, Chasing the Sun. In the sixties and seventies, Jonathon Green worked on various underground papers including Rolling Stone, Oz and IT.

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• Verlag: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0224043226
• ISBN 13: 9780224043229
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496