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-

Gencarelli, Thom.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baby boom generation--United States--History.

Baby boom generation.

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

Popular culture.

United States--Civilization--1945-.

United States.

United States--History--1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 423 pages)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART 1: POLITICS; 1. From Camelot to Watergate: Ten Years That Changed the Politics of Boomer Culture; 2. The Whole World Is Watching: The SDS and Student Movement of the 1960s; 3. Breaking Down Doors: The Stonewall Riots and LGBT Rights; 4. Wearing Members Only Jackets: Baby Boomers and the Shift from Sharing in to Buying into Community; 5. Boomers in the Global Village; PART 2: TELEVISION AND FILM; 6. Let the Games Begin: Baby Boomers, Capitalist Ideology, and the Containment of Gender in Sports Television

7. ""And Now Bringing You the Good Life-A Word from Our Sponsors"": The Changing Face of Television Advertising from the Sixties to the Present Day8. Moving with the Pictures: Film Viewing across the Boomer Era; 9. Chilling to The Big Chill: Representations of Boomers in Movies; 10. The New Horror Movie; 11. Rock Music on Film: A Selective Chronology; 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

13. ""In My Life"": The Transformative Power of Music and Media during the Rebellions of the 1960s14. ""Love Is All You Need"": Why There Will Never Be Another Beatles; 15. Bob Dylan and Spectacle Culture: Yesterday and Today; 16. ""Come See about Me"": Why the Baby Boomers Liked Stax but Loved Motown; PART 4: LITERATURE; 17. Reading the Boomers' Reading: What Did They Read? Who Did They Read? Who Wrote about Them?; 18. Equipment for Living: The Popularity and Use of Second-Wave Feminist Literature among Baby Boomers

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")20. Soul on Ice: The Rise of Minority Literature; 21. The Baby Boom, the Bomb, and Outer Space: Growing Up in a Science Fiction World; 22. Marshall McLuhan and the Making of a Countercultural Generation; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

About the Editors and Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400616136

9798216051077

9780313398872

0313398879

OCLC:

898086232