The last great dream how bohemians became hippies and created the sixties
Few cities represent the countercultural movement of the 1960s more than San Francisco. By that decade, the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was home to several hundred colorful refugees from the conventional, self-branded "freaks" (dubbed "hippies" by the media) who created the world's first psychedelic...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Da Capo,
2025.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Few cities represent the countercultural movement of the 1960s more than San Francisco. By that decade, the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood was home to several hundred colorful refugees from the conventional, self-branded "freaks" (dubbed "hippies" by the media) who created the world's first psychedelic neighborhood, an alchemical chamber for social transformation. Collectively, these freaks rejected a large part of the mythology underlying the traditional American identity, passing over American exceptionalism, consumerism, misogyny, and militarism in favor of creativity, mind-body connection, peace, and love of all things--humans, animals, and nature alike. ... The Last Great Dream is a history of everything that led to the 1960s counterculture, when long-simmering resistance to American mainstream values birthed the hippie. It begins with the San Francisco Renaissance, peaks with the Human Be-in at Golden Gate Park, and ends with the Monterey Pop Festival that introduced Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin to the world."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 420 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm 416 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-403) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780306835667 0306835665 |
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