Remember The 60s

Author : Michael Heatley
Publisher : G2 Entertainment
ISBN 13 : 9781782812852
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remember the 60s written by Michael Heatley and published by G2 Entertainment. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s was a defining year, in politics, music and film, with a new generation making the world sit up and take notice. This book uses the music of the era as a means to tell the story of the decade, when bands such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones changed the face of music globally and protest singers such as Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell used music to form the core of protest. Illustrated throughout with color photos, this is a great souvenir of a decade that changed the face of music.

Author : Linda Joy Myers
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1938314107
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Times They Were A-Changing written by Linda Joy Myers and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2013-09-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These forty-eight powerful stories and poems etch in vivid detail the breakthrough moments experienced by women during the life-changing era that was the ’60s and ’70s. These women rode the sexual revolution with newfound freedom, struggled for identity in divorce courts and boardrooms, and took political action in street marches. They pushed through boundaries, trampled taboos, and felt the pain and joy of new experiences. And finally, here, they tell it like it was. From Vietnam to France, from Chile to England, from the Haight-Ashbury to Greenwich Village, and to the Deep South and Midwest, Times They Were A-Changing recalls the cultural reverberations that reached into farm kitchens and city “pads” alike—and in doing so, it celebrates the women of the ’60s and ’70s, reminding them of the importance of their legacy.

Author : Patricia Massó
Publisher : Tectum
ISBN 13 : 9789079761340
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remember The '60s written by Patricia Massó and published by Tectum. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men's hair grew long, women's skirts became short and people dreamed of a world of love, peace and happiness. Fascinating novelties in fashion, music and design were the breeding-ground for trends in coming centuries. It brings back the memories of the glorious Swinging Sixties.

Author : William McKeen
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613734948
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everybody Had an Ocean written by William McKeen and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles in the 1960s gave the world some of the greatest music in rock 'n' roll history: "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas and the Papas, "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds, and "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys, a song that magnificently summarized the joy and beauty of the era in three-and-a-half minutes. But there was a dark flip side to the fun fun fun of the music, a nexus between naïve young musicians and the fringe elements that exploited the decade's peace-love-and-flowers ethos, all fueled by sex, drugs, and overnight success. One surf music superstar unwittingly subsidized the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. The transplanted Texas singer Bobby Fuller might have been murdered by the Mob in what is still an unsolved case. And after hearing Charlie Manson sing, Neil Young recommended him to the president of Warner Bros. Records. Manson's ultimate rejection by the music industry likely led to the infamous murders that shocked a nation. Everybody Had an Ocean chronicles the migration of the rock 'n' roll business to Southern California and how the artists flourished there. The cast of characters is astonishing—Brian and Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, eccentric producer Phil Spector, Cass Elliot, Sam Cooke, Ike and Tina Turner, Joni Mitchell, and scores of others—and their stories form a modern epic of the battles between innocence and cynicism and joy and terror. You'll never hear that beautiful music in quite the same way.

Author : David Bromwich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191081965
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Words Make Things Happen written by David Bromwich and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended. How Words Make Things Happen suggests that the conventional idea of persuasive rhetoric (which assumes a speaker's control of calculated effects) and the modern idea of literary autonomy (which assumes that 'poetry makes nothing happen') together have produced a misleading account of the relations between words and human action. Words do make things happen. But they cannot be counted on to produce the result they intend. This volume studies examples from a range of speakers and writers and offers close readings of their words. Chapter 1 considers the theory of speech-acts propounded by J.L. Austin. 'Speakers Who Convince Themselves' is the subject of chapter 2, which interprets two soliloquies by Shakespeare's characters and two by Milton's Satan. The oratory of Burke and Lincoln come in for extended treatment in chapter 3, while chapter 4 looks at the rival tendencies of moral suasion and aestheticism in the poetry of Yeats and Auden. The final chapter, a cause of controversy when first published in the London Review of Books, supports a policy of unrestricted free speech against contemporary proposals of censorship. Since we cannot know what our own words are going to do, we have no standing to justify the banishment of one set of words in favour of another.

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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Author : Bryan Burrough
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698170075
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Days of Rage written by Bryan Burrough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s The Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The FALN. The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, when not forgotten altogether. But there was a stretch of time in America, during the 1970s, when bombings by domestic underground groups were a daily occurrence. The FBI combated these groups and others as nodes in a single revolutionary underground, dedicated to the violent overthrow of the American government. The FBI’s response to the leftist revolutionary counterculture has not been treated kindly by history, and in hindsight many of its efforts seem almost comically ineffectual, if not criminal in themselves. But part of the extraordinary accomplishment of Bryan Burrough’s Days of Rage is to temper those easy judgments with an understanding of just how deranged these times were, how charged with menace. Burrough re-creates an atmosphere that seems almost unbelievable just forty years later, conjuring a time of native-born radicals, most of them “nice middle-class kids,” smuggling bombs into skyscrapers and detonating them inside the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, at a Boston courthouse and a Wall Street restaurant packed with lunchtime diners—radicals robbing dozens of banks and assassinating policemen in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta. The FBI, encouraged to do everything possible to undermine the radical underground, itself broke many laws in its attempts to bring the revolutionaries to justice—often with disastrous consequences. Benefiting from the extraordinary number of people from the underground and the FBI who speak about their experiences for the first time, Days of Rage is filled with revelations and fresh details about the major revolutionaries and their connections and about the FBI and its desperate efforts to make the bombings stop. The result is a mesmerizing book that takes us into the hearts and minds of homegrown terrorists and federal agents alike and weaves their stories into a spellbinding secret history of the 1970s.

Author : Barry Miles
Publisher : Rocket 88
ISBN 13 : 9781906615765
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Sixties written by Barry Miles and published by Rocket 88. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, poetry, protest, the Beatles, psychedelia and the 1960s underground in pictures, words and rare sound recordings form this illustrated memoir by one of the key figures of the Sixties British counterculture.

Author : Jeffrey Crimmel
Publisher : Jeffrey R. Crimmel
ISBN 13 : 9780985223267
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The '60s written by Jeffrey Crimmel and published by Jeffrey R. Crimmel. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those readers who were either too young or too old to participate in the '60s, here is what you missed. This dynamic period in the history of the U.S. is reviewed with all the key players that made this era so special. Enjoy the ride and know that those who did survive this period have a lot of stories to tell. This is mine.

Author : Bernard von Bothmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Framing the Sixties written by Bernard von Bothmer and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the past quarter century, American liberals and conservatives alike have invoked memories of the 1960s to define their respective ideological positions and to influence voters. Liberals recall the positive associations of what might be called the "good Sixties" - the "Camelot" years of JFK, the early civil rights movement, and the dreams of the Great Society - while conservatives conjure images of the "bad Sixties" - a time of urban riots, antiwar protests, and countercultural revolt." "In Framing the Sixties, Bernard von Bothmer examines this battle over the collective memory of the decade primarily through the lens of presidential politics. He shows how four presidents - Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush - each sought to advance his political agenda by consciously shaping public understanding of the meaning of "the Sixties." He compares not only the way that each depicted the decade as a whole, but also their commentary on a set of specific topics: the presidency of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" initiatives, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War." "In addition to analyzing the pronouncements of the presidents themselves, von Bothmer draws on interviews he conducted with more than one hundred and twenty cabinet members, speechwriters, advisers, strategists, historians, journalists, and activists from across the political spectrum - from Julian Bond, Daniel Ellsberg, Todd Gitlin, and Arthur Schlesinger to James Baker, Robert Bork, Phyllis Schlafly, and Paul Weyrich."--BOOK JACKET.