1966 : the year the decade exploded / Jon Savage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savage, Jon

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rock music--1961-1970--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Nineteen sixty-six, A.D.

Physical Description:

xii, 653 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Faber & Faber, 2015.

Summary:

1966 was a year of noise and tumult, of brightly colored patterns clashing with black and white politics, of furious forward motion and an outraged, awakening reaction. There remains an urgency that marks the music and movies of that year, counterbalanced by traces of loss, disconnection and deep melancholy.

Contents:

Part 1, Acceleration. January. A quiet explosion : CND, protest and the conspiracy of silence

February. 19th nervous breakdown : British teen culture and the madness of swinging London

March. The ballad of the Green Berets : the Vietnam War in America

April. The third eye : LSD and its discontents

May. Walkin' my cat named dog : The feminine mystique and Female independence

June. I'll be your mirror : The Velvet Underground and Warhol's America

July. Land of 1000 dances : Tamla, soul and the March Against Fear

August. Do you come here often? Joe Meek, gay rights and a summer of violence

Part 2, Explosion. September. 7 and 7 is : provocations, shadows and a new language

October. Winchester Cathedral : times past, present and future

November. Good vibrations : Motown and soul in the UK, the Beach Boys and the Sunset Strip

December. My mind's eye : dreams of freedom, a prophetic minority and the return to childhood.

Notes:

The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966.

Includes bibliographical references, discography (pages 553-564), and index.

ISBN:

0571277624

9780571277629

OCLC:

930767429