Preserving the sixties : Britain and the 'decade of protest' / edited by Trevor Harris, Professor of British Studies, University of Tours, France and Monia O'Brien Castro, Senior Lecturer in British Studies, University of Tours, France.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Trevor A. Le V., editor.

O'Brien Castro, Molly, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Historiography.

Manners and customs.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--1945---Historiography.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--Elizabeth II, 1952---Historiography.

Popular culture--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

xvi, 197 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

It is often claimed that the Sixties in Britain were dominated mainly by 'youth' and 'protest', True, the desire to escape outmoded social, moral and artistic conventions was illustrated in a rich, provocative cultural production, as well as through a number of radical social and political movements or reforms. However, as this collection argues, innovation was everywhere shadowed by conservatism. A decade fascinated by itself and, especially, by the future, was tormented by self-doubt and accompanied by a fear of losing the past. Ultimately the 'radicalism' of the Sixties in Britain is also visible in its conservatism, in the spectacular, novel ways in which the decade expressed and absorbed the new, yet preserved the old. Rather than pitting radical against conservative, this interpretation of the Sixties may well gain by attempting to see how these two apparently antagonistic qualities in fact represent opposite sides of the same problem. Book jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Sixties Britain: The cultural politics of historiography / Mark Donnelly

pt. I Politics

2.The 1960s: Days of innocence / R. J. Morris

3.The Abortion Act 1967: A fundamental change? / Matthew Leggett

4.Industrial relations in the 1960s: The end of voluntarism? / Alexis Chommeloux

5.The radical left and popular music in the 1960s / Jeremy Tranmer

pt. II Culture

6.Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Friel's The Freedom of the City / Martine Pelletier

7.Pulp diction: Stereotypes in 1960s British literature / Peter Vernon

8.Sketchy counter-culture / Judith Roof

9.Psychic liberation in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / Ben Winsworth

10.Preservation Society / Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137374097

1137374098

OCLC:

864994080

Publisher Number:

60001912742