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Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to unearth the complexity and rediscover the society-changing power of significant movements and figures.
List of contents
Chapter 01 Foreword, Marilyn B. Young; Chapter 02 Introduction, Peter Braunstein, michael William Doyle; Part 1 Deconditioning; Chapter 03 The Intoxicated State/Illegal nation, David Farber; Chapter 04 From Consciousness Expansion to Consciousness Raising, Debra Michals; Part 03 Cultural Politics; Chapter 05 Staging the Revolution, Michael William Doyle; Chapter 06 The Revolution is about Our Lives, Doug Rossinow; Chapter 07 The White Panthers' Total Assault on the Culture, Jeff A. Hale; Part 05 Identity; Chapter 08 Counterculture Indians and the New Age, Philip Deloria; Chapter 09 Voodoo Child, Lauren Onkey; Chapter 10 Gay Gatherings, Robert McRuer; Part 07 Pop Culture and Mass Media; Chapter 11 Forever Young, Peter Braunstein; Chapter 12 The Movies are a Revolution, David E. James; Chapter 13 Sex as a Weapon, Beth Bailey; Part 09 Alternative Visions; Chapter 14 The Sixties-Era Communes, Timothy miller; Chapter 15 Machines of Loving Grace, Andrew Kirk;
About the author
Peter Braunstein is a journalist and cultural historian based in New York City. He writes about fashion, film, celebrity, the 1960s, music, technology, and pop culture for such publications as the Village Voice, Forbes,American Heritage, the Chronicle of Higher Education,Women's Wear Daily, W, and culturefront. He received his M.A. from New York University in 1992, having written a thesis on the Haight-Ashbury counterculture.
Michael William Doyle worked in the new-wave food co-op movement during the 1970s while living communally on an organic farm he helped found in Wisconsin. He went on to earn a B.A. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1989), and a Ph.D. at Cornell University (1997). He is currently Assistant Professor of History at Ball State University at Muncie, Indiana. He is the author of FreeRadicals: The Haight-Ashbury Diggers and the AmericanCounterculture in the 1960s.
Summary
The counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s remains a highly controversial and divisive topic Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on this culture.
