Psychedelia and other colours / by Rob Chapman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapman, Robert, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

LSD (Drug)--Social aspects.

LSD (Drug).

Psychedelic rock music--United States--History and criticism.

Psychedelic rock music.

Psychedelic rock music--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Counterculture--United States--History--20th century.

Counterculture.

History.

Social aspects.

United States.

Counterculture--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide--history.

Hallucinogens--history.

Great Britain.

Medical Subjects:

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide--history.

Hallucinogens--history.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 638 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Psychedelia and other colors

Place of Publication:

London : Faber & Faber, 2015.

Summary:

"In Psychedelia and Other Colours, acclaimed author Rob Chapman explores in crystalline detail the history, precedents and cultural impact of LSD, from the earliest experiments in painting with light and immersive environments to the thriving avant-garde scene that existed in San Francisco even before the Grateful Dead and the Fillmore Auditorium. In the U.K., he documents an entirely different history, and one that has never been told before. It has its roots in fairy tales and fairgrounds, the music hall and the dead of Flanders fields, in the Festival of Britain and that peculiarly British strand of surrealism that culminated in the Magical Mystery Tour. Sitars and Sergeant Pepper, surfadelica and the Soft Machine, light shows and love-ins -- the mind-expanding effects of acid were to redefine popular culture as we know it. Psychedelia and Other Colours documents these utopian reverberations -- and the dark side of their moon,"--Amazon.com.

Contents:

1 To Make This Trivial World Sublime 9

Psychedelia USA

2 Painting with Light 39

3 The Greta Garbo Home for Wayward Boys and Girls 81

4 The Savant-Garde: Surfadelica, Girl Groups and Garage Land 111

5 California Dreaming 139

6 Utopians and Utopiates 175

7 I Am the Black Gold of the Sun 191

8 Concentration Moon: The Dark Side of Psych 229

Psychedelia UK

9 You Get a Tan from Standing in the English Rain 260

10 The Soft Machine: Unfunky Cerebral Caterwauling, the Romilar Army and All the Wood that Doesn't Look Like Fish 311

11 The Pink Floyd: The Art-School Dance and, the Hexagram Shuffle 329

12 Smashed Blocked: Art-Pop Renegades and the R&B Mutations 351

13 He's Been Travelling Everywhere': Innuendo, Euphemism and the Lucy Effect 385

14 The Psychedelic Music Hall 413

15 The Penny Arcadia 457

16 Infantasia: Kinder Psych and Toytown Pop 499

17 Sitar Pop, Raga Rock and the Exotic Others 521

Afterglow (Which Dreamed It?)

18 Gauche Riders in the Sky: Kitsch Psych, Part-Time Paradise People and the Ersatz of Suchness 541

19 Paint America Love 567.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-607) and index.

ISBN:

9780571282005

0571282008

OCLC:

910570765