Baby boomers and popular culture : an inquiry into America's most powerful generation / Brian Cogan and Thom Gencarelli, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cogan, Brian, 1967- editor.

Gencarelli, Thom, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Popular culture.

Baby boom generation.

History.

United States.

Baby boom generation--United States--History.

United States--Civilization--1945-.

Civilization.

United States--History--1945-.

Physical Description:

xvii, 423 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2015]

Summary:

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. Supplies comprehensive, critical analysis of the legacy of the Boomer Generation that examines the benefits and drawbacks of the enormous changes this generation of Americans instituted Presents accessible but rigorous, scholarly analysis from a broad range of experts in multiple fields Spotlights the ways in which pop culture at large has responded to the Boomers' influence or example--sometimes in vehement opposition and at other times with imitation or flattery

Contents:

Part 1 Politics

1 From Camelot to Watergate: Ten Years That Changed the Politics of Boomer Culture / William. M. Knoblauch Knoblauch, William. M. 3

2 The Whole World Is Watching: The SDS and Student Movement of the 1960s / Ed Tywoniak Tywoniak, Ed 17

3 Breaking Down Doors: The Stonewall Riots and LGBT Rights / Anastacia Kurylo Kurylo, Anastacia 35

4 Wearing Members Only Jackets: Baby Boomer? and the Shift from Sharing in to Buying into Community / Todd Kelshaw Kelshaw, Todd 49

5 Boomers in the Global Village / Michael Grabowski Grabowski, Michael 67

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 Casey, Cheryl A. 85

7 "And Now Bringing You the Good Life-A Word from Our Sponsors": The Changing Face of Television Advertising from the Sixties to tire Present Day / Rebecca Kern Kern, Rebecca 103

8 Moving with the Pictures: Film Viewing across the Boomer Era / Sheila J. Nayar Nayar, Sheila J. 117

9 Chilling to The Big Chill Representations of Boomers in Movies / Robert Hensley-King Hensley-King, Robert 135

10 The New Horror Movie / Todd K. Platts Platts, Todd K. 147

11 Rock Music on Film: A Selective Chronology / Sarah Boslaugh Boslaugh, Sarah 165

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 Gencarelli, Thom 175

13 "In My Lite": The Transformative Power of Music and Media during the Rebellions of the 1960s / Robert Albrecht Albrecht, Robert 191

14 "Love Is All You Need": Why There Will Never Be Another Beatles / Phil Rose Rose, Phil 225

15 Bob Dylan and Spectacle Culture: Yesterday and Today / Salvatore J. Fallica Fallica, Salvatore J. 241

16 "Come See about Me": Why the Baby Boomers Liked but Loved Motown / Gary Kenton Kenton, Gary 279

Part 4 Literature

17 Reading the Boomers' Reading: What Did They Read? Who Did They Read? Who Wrote about Them? / David Linton Linton, David 293

18 Equipment for Living: The Popularity and Use of Second-Wave Feminist Literature among Baby Boomers / Kim Trager Bohley Bohley, Kim Trager 305

19 "After Life, the Magazine, the Splintering of the Categories: Boomers as a Target Audience" (including "Mau-Mau-ing the Press: The Rise of 'New' Journalism," "Rolling Stone: The Magazine That Marked a Generation," and "Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, and the 'New Journalism' as Literature") / Brian Cogan Cogan, Brian 327

20 Soul on Ice: The Rise of Minority Literature / Christopher Allen Varlack Varlack, Christopher Allen 339

21 The Baby Boom, the Bomb, and Outer Space: Growing Up in a Science Fiction World / Lance Strate Strate, Lance 351

22 Marshall McLuhan and the Making of a Countercultural Generation / James C. Morrison Morrison, James C. 389.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780313398865

0313398860

OCLC:

883510754