Psychedelia and Other Colours

A Guardian , Mojo and Rough Trade Book of the Year Fifty years on from the psychedelic summer of love, acclaimed music writer Rob Chapman explores what was really going on during those heady times. In America he traces the multi-media history of the Light shows, Happenings, Be-Ins and Acid tests, and illustrates the thriving avant-garde scene that existed long before the Grateful Dead and the Fillmore Auditorium came into being. In the UK, he shows an entirely different history, never before explored in such breath-taking detail, where the sublime and the silly co-existed side by side in a peculiarly British take on flower power that drew inspiration as readily from fairy tales, fairgrounds and music halls, as it did from LSD. With a fascinating new perspective on the role of the Beatles, Psychedelia and Other Colours documents a cultural phenomenon, in psychedelia's seminal text.

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A fantastic, exhaustive history of the genre: comprehensive but gripping, packed with eye-opening period detail and with a brilliant analysis of everything from Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to the oeuvre of the Crocheted Doughnut Ring. Alexis Petridis Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Rob Chapman, Chapman Rob
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2017
• EAN: 9780571282746
• ISBN: 978-0-571-28274-6
• No. of pages: 656
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 46 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Rock, Music, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Drugs trade / drug trafficking, Pop Music, Popular Music, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects