Baby Boomers and Popular Culture - An Inquiry into America's Most Powerful Generation

Informationen zum Autor Brian Cogan is a writer and professor who has written extensively on music and popular culture as well as music criticism. He received his PhD in Media Ecology in 2002 from New York University. He teaches at Molloy College and has taught at New York University and the College of Staten Island. Cogan has been a member of the punk scene for over 20 years and has written for a variety of zines as well as journals, newspapers, and magazines and has performed and recorded with his band In Crowd since 1987. Klappentext The Boomers are the generation that changed everything, from economics to politics to popular culture. This book examines the myriad ways and long-reaching consequences of the now fully "grown up" Baby Boomer generation on America. Once upon a time, the members of the Baby Boomer generation were young, idealistic, and hungry to change the world. And they did create sweeping, irreversible changes throughout American society-but probably not in the ways their younger selves imagined they would. Now that the Boomers are in their late-adult or retirement years, their tremendous legacy can clearly be perceived. In retrospect, the paths the members of this generation took to come to power-and how they came to terms with that power-are also apparent. This single-volume work supplies a broad yet detailed critical guide to the Boomer Generation, containing essays on key people, moments, and phenomena not only during the Boomers' 1960s heyday but also their extensive influences on American culture decades afterward. The contributors address key topics such as the rise of feminism; Civil Rights; the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement; the Beatles, the Grateful Dead, and rock 'n roll; gay rights; idealism, narcissism, and materialism; the influence of television on America, and vice versa; and the transition of Boomers from being "Yippies" to "Yuppies." This work is an ideal text for students in undergraduate or graduate courses in television studies, media studies, cultural studies, and American studies; and is highly appropriate as a supplemental text in literature, history, and philosophy surveys. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Brian Cogan and Thom Gencarelli PART 1: POLITICS 1. From Camelot to Watergate: Ten Years That Changed the Politics of Boomer Culture William M. Knoblauch ? 2. The Whole World Is Watching: The SDS and Student Movement of the 1960s Ed Tywoniak 3. Breaking Down Doors: The Stonewall Riots and LGBT Rights Anastacia Kurylo 4. Wearing Members Only Jackets: Baby Boomers and the Shift from Sharing in to Buying into Community Todd Kelshaw 5. Boomers in the Global Village Michael Grabowski PART 2: TELEVISION AND FILM 6. Let the Games Begin: Baby Boomers, Capitalist Ideology, and the Containment of Gender in Sports Television Cheryl A. Casey 7. "And Now Bringing You the Good Life-A Word from Our Sponsors": The Changing Face of Television Advertising from the Sixties to the Present Day Rebecca Kern 8. Moving with the Pictures: Film Viewing across the Boomer Era Sheila J. Nayar 9. Chilling to The Big Chill : Representations of Boomers in Movies Robert Hensley-King 10. The New Horror Movie Todd K. Platts 11. Rock Music on Film: A Selective Chronology Sarah Boslaugh PART 3: POPULAR MUSIC 12. "It's Only Rock-'n'-Roll": The Rise of the Contemporary Popular Music Industry as a Defining Factor in the Creation of Boomer Culture Thom Gencarelli 13. "In My Life": The Transformative Power of Music and Media during the Rebellions of the 1960s Robert Albrecht 14. "Love Is All You Need": Why There Will Never Be Another Beatles Phil Rose 15. Bob Dylan and Spectacle Culture: Yesterday and Today Salvatore J. Fallica<...

Product details

• Authors: Brian Cogan, Brian Arthur Cogan, Brian/ Gencarelli Cogan, Thom Gencarelli
• Assisted by: Brian Cogan (Editor)
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2014
• EAN: 9780313398865
• ISBN: 978-0-313-39886-5
• No. of pages: 412
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)