counterculture

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• SOURCE: Salon
  9/7/2020
  

  Counterculture Memoirist Sharon Dukett on what We Learned (and Forgot) from the Hippies

  A new memoir by Sharon Dukett recounts the down side of the 1960s counterculture: poverty, police harassment, and rampant sexism. 

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• 8/30/2020
  

  Remember Punk Rock? Probably Not…: The Real Culture War of 1980s America

  by Kevin Mattson

  Digging beneath the aesthetics of punk to find its politics, Kevin Mattson's new book finds a counterculture of suburban youths who identified the unrestrained capitalism of the Reagan era as the true nihilism threatening America.

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  8/26/2020
  

  Athens’s Revolutionaries: A Review Of "Cool Town"

  Alex Sayf Cummings reviews Grace Elizabeth Hale's "Cool Town" on the rise of 1980s alternative culture in Athens, Georgia, for the blog of the Urban History Association. 

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• SOURCE: Southern Spaces
  5/11/2020
  

  An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America

  by Grace Elizabeth Hale

  Athens kids built the first important small-town American music scene and the key early site of what would become alternative or indie culture.

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• 12/1/2019
  

  Remembering Altamont, the Day the Sixties Died

  by James Thornton Harris

  On a sunny Saturday in the dusty hills east of San Francisco, the Altamont Rock Concert dissolved into chaos, leaving four dead and dozens injured. James Thorton Harris reflects on his experience at Altamont on its 50th anniversary. 

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• 10/20/19
  

  Can a 1960s-like Counterculture Emerge?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Today we have just as much reason to protest as did the 1960’s dissidents. We need a counterculture, or an opposing culture or way of life, to embolden our emotions and imaginations and challenge "throaway" consumer culture. 

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• 9/5/19
  

  How The Media Covered Woodstock – and How Woodstock Changed The Media

  by Harlan Lebo

  Woodstock was a milestone – not just in coverage of the music scene, but also in broader media exploration of social and economic issues that affect younger audiences. 

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• 8/11/19
  

  Counterculture 1969: a Gateway to the Darkest and the Brightest

  by Harlan Lebo

  The question of how counterculture emerges is a reflection of an era, with results that produced the worst and best of a generation.

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• 8/11/19
  

  The Cultural History Behind Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

  by David L. O'Connor

  Like most folktales, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is filled with interesting characters, events, and messages from a bygone era.  

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• 2-17-14
  

  Review of Michael J. Kramer's "The Republic of Rock"

  by Ron Briley

  How hippie music became a bastion of "hip capitalism."