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You say you want a revolution? : records and rebels, 1966-1970 / edited by Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh.

Title: You say you want a revolution? : records and rebels, 1966-1970 / edited by Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh.
Publication: London : V & A Publishing, 2016.

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320 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 32 cm

Summary

The late 1960s were a period of great turbulence and rapid social and political change. You Say You Want a Revolution? examines that moment when youth culture drove an optimistic idealism, motivating people to come together and question established power structures across every area of society. It shows how many of the issues that dominate contemporary discourse environmentalism, globalization, individualism or mass-communication - have roots that can be traced back to the 1960s.1960s design culture culminated in an orgy of colour and form: a sensorial overload of Barbarella-style inflatables, plush Verner Panton playrooms and high-tech 2001: Space Odyssey furniture systems. Here, essays on music, politics, the counter-culture, social living, mind-altering experiences, festivals and more chart revolutions across media and culture, illustrated throughout with some of the most iconic images of the time - including the records that provided both the soundtrack and the key means of identification. The idealism of the period informed such disparate phenomena as the high-tech innovations of Silicon Valley and the environmental movement. Half a century later, we can reassess the genesis of these movements and explore whether the revolutions they started can be considered complete, ongoing or interrupted.

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exhibition catalogs.
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History
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 10 September 2016 - 26 February 2017.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

A tale of two cities : London, San Francisco and the transatlantic bridge / Geoffrey Marsh -- Revolution now : the traumas and legacies of US politics in the late 1960s / Sean Wilentz -- The counter-culture / Barry Miles -- All together now? / Jon Savage -- The Fillmore, the Grande and the Sunset Strip : the evolution of a musical revolution / Howard Kramer -- You say you want a revolution? : looking at the Beatles / Victoria Broackes -- British fashion 1966-70 : 'A state of anarchy' / Jenny Lister -- The chrome-plated marshmallow : the 1960s consumer revolution and its discontents / Alison J. Clarke -- 'We are as gods ... ' : computers and America's new communalism, 1965-75 / Fred Turner -- Epilogue. Michael Sandel on where we go from here.

ISBN

1851778918
9781851778911
9781851779949
9781851778928
1851778926
1851779949
9781851779895
1851779892

LCCN

2016930363

OCLC

959653219
SCSB-12604873

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library