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Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll
The Rise of America’s 1960s Counterculture
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Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll: The American Counterculture of the 1960s offers a unique examination of the cultural flowering that enveloped the United States during that early postwar decade. Robert C. Cottrell provides an enthralling view of the counterculture, beginning with an examination of American bohemia, the Lyrical Left of the pre-WWII era, and the hipsters. He delves into the Beats, before analyzing the counterculture that emerged on both the East and West coasts, but soon cropped up in the American heartland as well. Cottrell delivers something of a collective biography, through an exploration of the antics of seminal countercultural figures Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary, and Ken Kesey. Cottrell also presents fascinating chapters covering "the magic elixir of sex," rock 'n roll, the underground press, Haight-Ashbury, the literature that garnered the attention of many in the counterculture, Monterey Pop, the Summer of Love, the Death of Hippie, the March on the Pentagon, communes, Yippies, Weatherman, Woodstock, the Manson family, the women's movement, and the decade's legacies.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The Precursors: From Utopia to Huxley
- Troubadours for a New American Bohemia: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and the Beats
- The Continued Reception of the Beats
- From Harvard to Millbrook: Timothy Leary
- The Merry Prankster: Ken Kesey
- The Magic Elixir of Sex and a Touch of Anarchism
- The Magic in the Music
- California Dreaming and Haight-Ashbury
- Spreading the Word: Alternative Media
- People of the Book
- From the Human Be-In to the Summer of Love
- The Death of Hippie and Early Postmortems
- Alternative Living
- From Hippie to Yippie on the Way to Revolution
- Fighting in the Streets and the Latest Battle of the Bands
- COINTELPRO and the Millennium
- The Conspiracy, Street Fighting Man, and the Apocalypse
- The Not So Slow Fade
- It’s All Over Now
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author