The great funk : falling apart and coming together (on a shag rug) in the seventies / Thomas Hine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hine, Thomas, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States.

United States--Civilization--20th century.

Arts, American--20th century.

Arts, American.

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

241 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Summary:

Hines history of the 1970s maps a complex era by looking at its ideas, feelings, sex, fashions, textures, gestures, colors, demographic forces, artistic expressions, and other phenomena that had shaped an era.

In the sixties, as the nation anticipated the conquest of space, the defeat of poverty, and an end to injustice at home and abroad, no goal seemed beyond America's reach. Then the seventies arrived--bringing oil shocks and gas lines, the disgrace and resignation of a president, defeat in Vietnam, terrorism at the 1972 Munich Olympics, urban squalor, bizarre crimes, high prices, and a bad economy. But when things fall apart, you can take the fragments and make something fresh. Avocado kitchens and Earth Shoes may have been ugly, but they signaled new modes of seeing and being. The first generation to see Earth from space found ways to make life's everyday routines meaningful, both personally and globally. And many decided to reinvent themselves. More than a lavish catalogue of seventies culture, this is a smart, lively look at the "Me decade" through the eyes of America's sharpest design critic.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Running on empty

Too late, baby

Raising consciousness

Close encounters

Nights in green dacron

Jungles within

Not ready for prime time?

Deliverance and denial.

Notes:

"Sarah Crichton books."

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780374148393

0374148392

OCLC:

71507503

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