Psychedelia, the Summer of Love, & Monterey : The Rock Culture of 1967

ISBN-13: 9783659271106 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 140 str.

James Maynard

Opis

On the morning of June 19th, 1967 the mass of concert-goers, which had emerged from San Francisco and every far-reaching corner of America, awoke with a disappointing realization Monterey was officially over. The weekend of June 16th had marked the successful launch of rock music s first ever large-scale outdoor music festival. Yet by the following Monday, three days of unprecedented musical talent, peace, and universally positive vibes had disintegrated into the ether, bringing a lamentable return to reality. What had occurred at Monterey that weekend had been the materialization of something remarkable, a fleeting celebration of rock music, youthful counterculture, and the collective fulfillment of the hippies far-out vision of America. With a graceful fluidity, rock left behind its insular, mainstream-innocence of the early 1960s to search for a more meaningful identity within American culture. This identity was built into the foundation of the rock festival, a cultural product which celebrated spontaneity, community, and most importantly, music as a peaceful means of revolt, challenging popular culture to reconsider its strictly enforced vision of the American Experience."

O autorze

As a lover of language, writing, and especially music, my Senior paper, "Psychedelia, the Summer of Love, & Monterey-The Rock Culture of 1967" is the culmination of both these passions as well as my college career. This book chronicles the history of Rock Culture's greatest era, and subsequently, an era central to my own life.