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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Counterculture"”.
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HAIGHT-ASHBURY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE COUNTERCULTURE MOVEMENT
… neighborhood, was the epicenter of the American Counterculture Movement in the mid to late sixties. The social, cultural, and political impact of this movement is vast and widely known. This thesis provides a themed historical narrative of the Haight-Ashbury, specifically about its role in the …
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To Play Jewish Again: Roots, Counterculture, and the Klezmer Revival
… for authenticity, carrying over from the 1960s counterculture, and a manifestation of a 1970s trend toward ethnic cultural revival. I implicitly argue that both waves of klezmer popularity in America are reflections of the long project of Jews negotiating identities as both American and …
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"Everybody get together": The sixties counterculture and public space, 1964--1967
… have traditionally considered the sixties counterculture an apolitical phenomenon by historians and other analysts. Yet concentrated examination of the public activities of the counterculture in San Francisco from 1963 to 1967 reveals that they were engaged in the creation of a public …
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"There's A Man With A Gun Over There": Cops And The Counterculture
By 1960, television advertisers recognized the economic potential of American youth, and producers were expected to develop programs to attract them, while still maintaining appeal for the older audience members. This task was to prove difficult as the decade wore on. While continuing to link the …
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Hippies in the Park: Yosemite and the Counterculture in the Sixties American West
… ideological conflict through the lens of youth counterculture. Like many other places, Yosemite experienced some form of turmoil during the late 1960s. Much of this was related to increased visitation. Expecting a refuge from urban life, visitors instead found traffic, noise, and air pollution. …
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The Representation of the Outlaw Biker in California, 1953-1969: Film, Counterculture and Commodity
… Easy Rider is the defining biker movie. Merging counterculture values with a cowboy themed outlaw biker image, this film defined both the mentality and imagery of what is associated with the biker lifestyle. A key addition to the New Hollywood cinematic movement, the film questioned the …
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From soprano to barking dog : John Cage, the avant garde, and the counterculture, 1940-1975
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When The Counterculture Picked Up A Southern Twang: A Cultural Analysis Of Late Sixties And Early Seventies Country Rock Movement
… active in the country-rock movement were mostly counterculture hippies, and they adopted country music to serve their own ends. There is no unified ideological thinking in this movement. Some musicians were political while others were not. Music critics generally agree that country rock was a …
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The "Sixties" Come to North Texas State University, 1968-1972
… rights on campus, and the emergence of the Counterculture. Over the last two years of the decade, North Texas State University and the surrounding community dealt directly with the 1960s and, under the astute leadership of President John J. Kamerick, successfully endured trying times.
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"The Most Previous Refuge of Hope": Herbert Marcuse, Alienation and the Space of Possibility in European and American Contexts
… (2) the American frontier; and (3) the American counterculture. These three spaces are examined successively in each chapter of this dissertation. In the "Introduction" I provide a general overview of the project, explaining its origins and significance. Then, I delineate the scope of this …
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"Complicating ""a Very Masculine Aesthetic"": Positional Sons and Double Husbands, Kinship and Careening in Jack Kerouac's Fiction"
… formation, gender studies, and post-WWII counterculture. Encompassing all of these subjects, this study promotes the Duluoz legend as an autobiographical record of one man's search for self in a homosocial world at the same time it is a family historian's self-conscious record of the …
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Speeding Toward Babylon: Subcultural Drug Use in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, 1960-1980
… “hippies,” a subculture so large it became a “counterculture.” Though there was plenty of darkness surrounding the hippies, the movement was overall an idealistic one, focused on peace, love, and having a good time. This reflected, and reflected upon, wider society, which saw massive economic …
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Mike Nichols. Elaine May, Mel Brooks, and Woody Allen's "New Cabaret": underground Jewish humor and the evolution of the new Hollywood aesthetic
… of the time” (Sobral 3), or that the “culture/counterculture divide was facilitated by the prosperity of post-war America” (Gair 4). The filmmakers here did not share the same counterculture values of their generational peers but instead developed a unique Jewish post-Holocaust sense of guilt …
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Revitalizing Hollywood Stardom: Classical Star Power and Enduring Marketability at Warner Bros. in the Beginning of New Hollywood
… the business in the new wave of new youth and counterculture. In the inception of the period, Warner Bros., one of the major film studios since the classical Hollywood era, exemplified a star-driven marketing approach using classical glamour and the narrative of nonconformity to attract the …
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The Early Music Ensemble in 21st Century America
The early music ensemble has evolved from a counterculture to a mainstream musical genre. Because of this early music is having to learn arts management. Once a unique force it now competes with other arts organizations for funding and audience. Unlike other arts groups, early music has little help …
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What is Really Funny: Humor Ahead of Its Time in the Twentieth Century American Novel
… (1969) was not only a bridge between the counterculture comics that attacked sacred cows in the 1960s and those who would take the torch toward century’s end but also a forerunner to the sketch comedy programs like <em>Saturday Night Live</em>, <em>The Muppet Show</em>, and <em>Mr. …
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Child-ish Books: Presenting Zines and Artist Books for Kids
… provide a history of indie publishing and zine counterculture, including the ways these spaces have and have not historically made room for children’s voices; and to detail the platform and publishing project I initiated to make more space for child artists and authors within the world of indie …
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Drag, Drugs, and Demonstrations: Cultural Subversion under Capitalism
… the applicability of this theory to the hippie counterculture, a favored movement of critical theorist Herbert Marcuse. I aim to analyze each of these movements in a dialectical manner, in such a way that respects the rich history of each movement and gives due consideration to the system in …
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Seeing is Believing: Observing Trans Spirituality Through The Smith-Waite Tarot
… approach to illustration, and retracing the counterculture occult explosion in the 1970s, this essay argues that the Smith-Waite deck is an object the reflects the queered body and self. The modern, trans-contentious, Western political climate creates an environment that obscures the fact …
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