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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"Sixties"”.
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The Sixties - the lived experience
The period commonly referred to as the Sixties, which in fact mainly covered the years between 1967 and 1975, was a time when society’s accepted values were questioned, undermined and sometimes overthrown. In Australia, opposition to the Vietnam War was at the heart of this turmoil. It is commonly …
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Writing the sixties: stardust and golden
… Here the focus is on how authors re-imagine the Sixties as an age of militant opposition to the Vietnam War and conscription and the rise of a counter culture of challenge to convention and authority. The phrase ‘Writing the Sixties’ also captures the essentially fictional construction of the …
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Blowing Warhol's cool: Decoding the sixties work
"This dissertation suggests a new understanding of the art of Andy Warhol by analyzing the personal iconography of his images. Warhol's ""hands-off"" painting technique, his apparently random retrieval of received images, as well as his cool public persona mask the works' highly autobiographical …
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Modernisation and the New Left in sixties Britain
The aim of this thesis is to explore the relationship between the New Left and modernisation, and to suggest that modernisation provides a powerful means of understanding the underlying dynamics of Britain's history in the 1960s. This relationship is understood in terms of a politics of space. The …
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"Feels Like Times Have Changed": Sixties Western Heroes
The topic of my dissertation is the genre of the western in popular music, film, literature, and television from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. In particular, I focus on the western formula hero as refigured through an era of cultural transition. My project joins an ongoing discussion of how …
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The "Sixties" Come to North Texas State University, 1968-1972
North Texas State University and the surrounding Denton community enjoyed a quiet college atmosphere throughout most of the 1960s. With the retirement of President J. C. Matthews in 1968, however, North Texas began witnessing the issues most commonly associated with the turbulent decade, such as …
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The films of Kenneth Anger and the sixties politics of consciousness
… was prompted by the widespread belief within the Sixties US counterculture that ‘normality’ was a state of implicit alienation, and that the undermining of standardised forms of subjectivity was necessary in order that a more authentic mode of existence be found; either as a prerequisite for wider …
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"Everybody get together": The sixties counterculture and public space, 1964--1967
… analysts 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 …
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Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Robert Ryman, and Abstraction in the Sixties
<p>This dissertation examines transformations in painting during the 1960s. Countering repeated pronouncements of its “death” and subsequent diagnoses of its persistence in melancholic form, my dissertation argues that painting was by no means moribund,nor was its ongoing practice a situation of …
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Amending the American flag : artistic liberties in the nineteen sixties and seventies
… its meaning. With the Civil Rights Movement, the sixties and seventies brought widespread change as artists explored issues of personal and group identity in a culturally diverse nation. The following chapters consider the artists Jasper Johns, Wayne Eagleboy, Massimo Vignelli, and Faith Ringgold, …
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Writing for Singers in the Sixties (With Original Composition) the Graduate Manual
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:20:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7105185.pdf: 9983841 bytes, checksum: 22d3269442fec8c9c8eff5bef0ef937e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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Hippies in the Park: Yosemite and the Counterculture in the Sixties American West
For many visitors, Yosemite's park boundaries symbolize a division between nature and civilization. On a busy day in Yosemite Valley, however, that divide seems nonexistent. Cars slither by, glinting in the sun. The valley echoes with camera clicks. Tourists stream into grocery stores and souvenir …
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Shifting Ground: Spatial Representations in the Literature of the Sixties Generation in Egypt
… of space in the fiction of seven members of the sixties generation in Egypt. Focusing upon the novels of Jamal al-Ghitani, Muhammad al-Bisati, 'Abd al-Hakim Qasim, Baha' Tahir Yahya Tahir 'Abdallah, Ibrahim Aslan, and Sun'allah Ibrahim, I contend that the representation of urban, rural, and …
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Canada's Other Red Scare: rights, decolonization, and Indigenous political protest in the global sixties
… studies on the era popularly understood as “the sixties” tend to focus on the particularities of the Canadian context, this dissertation suggests that the changing nature of Indigenous protest during the 1960s and 1970s forms a crucial link between Canada and global forces of social change that …
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Demythologizing the sixties; reappraising the British groupie and her relationship to feminism, 1965-1974
… to women’s history which undercuts key sixties mythologies such as the ‘sexual revolution’ and the ‘classless society’; by drawing a contrast between the lived experiences of two groupies from different social backgrounds, this thesis reinstates the concept of class as crucial to any …
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The Grotesque in Some American Novels of The Nineteen-Sixties: Ken Kesey, Joyce Carol Oates, Sylvia Plath
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7412240.pdf: 13842209 bytes, checksum: def327ee41862382b3e28fb6405a91b7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973
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Specters of Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Student Movement and its evocation of the ‘National Question’ during the global-local long Sixties
… birth to a counter tradition during the long Sixties. The long Sixties is developed and deployed inside the current dissertation as a heuristic devise in order to understand the historicity of ESM from a broader intellectual milieu, namely the anti-colonial global-local moment of historical …
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When The Counterculture Picked Up A Southern Twang: A Cultural Analysis Of Late Sixties And Early Seventies Country Rock Movement
… country-rock movement in the late sixties and early seventies. Country rock is a hybrid music genre emerged during this period. Musicians active in the country-rock movement were mostly counterculture hippies, and they adopted country music to serve their own ends. There is no …
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