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Author | : Gerard J. DeGroot |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674034635 |
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ÒIf you remember the Sixties,Ó quipped Robin Williams, Òyou werenÕt there.Ó That was, of course, an oblique reference to the mind-bending drugs that clouded perceptionÑyet time has proven an equally effective hallucinogen. This book revisits the Sixties we forgot or somehow failed to witness. In a kaleidoscopic global tour of the decade, Gerard DeGroot reminds us that the ÒBallad of the Green BeretÓ outsold ÒGive Peace a Chance,Ó that the Students for a Democratic Society were outnumbered by Young Americans for Freedom, that revolution was always a pipe dream, and that the Sixties belong to Reagan and de Gaulle more than to Kennedy and Dubcek. The Sixties Unplugged shows how opportunity was squandered, and why nostalgia for the decade has obscured sordidness and futility. DeGroot returns us to a time in which idealism, tolerance, and creativity gave way to cynicism, chauvinism, and materialism. He presents the Sixties as a drama acted out on stages around the world, a theater of the absurd in which ChinaÕs Cultural Revolution proved to be the worst atrocity of the twentieth century, the Six-Day War a disaster for every nation in the Middle East, and a million slaughtered Indonesians martyrs to greed. The Sixties Unplugged restores to an era the prevalent disorder and inconvenient truths that longing, wistfulness, and distance have obscured. In an impressionistic journey through a tumultuous decade, DeGroot offers an object lesson in the distortions nostalgia can create as it strives to impose order on memory and value on mayhem.
Author | : Gerard J. DeGroot |
Publisher | : MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
ISBN | : 9781405055215 |
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In this compelling book, Gerard DeGroot overturns the generally held belief that the sixties was a time of peace, love and understanding, of power to the people, freedom and new dawns. In fact, as he reveals, the decade was as much marked by mindless mayhem, shallow commercialism and unbridled cruelty as it was by wearing flowers in your hair and embracing your fellow man. How many of us, reflecting on those times, think about Sharpeville, the Gaza Strip, Vatican II, Biafra, Jakarta or the Cultural Revolution? Far from being a decade of opening doors, DeGroot argues convincingly that it was, rather, a decade in which they were slammed firmly shut, in which revolution was never on the cards, a time where chauvinism and cynicism got the better of hope and tolerance. Thought-provoking, persuasive and never less than entertaining, De Groot offers readers the Sixties unplugged, free of the amplifiers and filters that blur our memories and muddy our ability to see the past clearly.
Author | : Gerard J. De Groot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
ISBN | : |
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The 1960s is a decade often seen through a rose-tinted lens. But does such fond nostalgia really stand up? Vivid, rich in anecdote, angry and persuasive, this is an authoritative account of the decade of myth and madness.
Author | : Gerard J. De Groot |
Publisher | : MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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'We all disappeared,' wrote the Sixties flower child Andrea Adam of her friends who once marched for peace and love. 'Suddenly ... everybody had gone their own way. Suddenly everyone was knee-deep in mortgages and scrabbling for a half-decent job.' For too long, the accepted version of the Seventies has been one constructed by those embittered by the failures of the Sixties. The decade is seen as punishment for the propensity to dream. While we remember the best of the Sixties, we recall the worse of the Seventies. Now, Gerard DeGroot, author of the acclaimed The Sixties Unplugged, turns his incisive and often iconoclastic eye on the 1970s and shows that the reality is somewhat different. Praise for The Sixties Unplugged:'What makes DeGroot's book special, though, is that he adds in so many unfamiliar parts of the story, and has such a wicked eye for damning quotes' Andrew Marr, Mail on Sunday
Author | : Nancy Whitney-Reiter |
Publisher | : Sentient Publications |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1591810701 |
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Many in our modern society are in the midst of an existential crisis. The ideals of previous generations have gradually eroded, leaving nothing to fill the vacuum. This book discusses why we feel empty and how we try to fill the void, and then prescribes the unplugged cure.
Author | : Gerard DeGroot |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2011-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1446449610 |
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Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. But it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the human race's most powerful and most destructive discovery. In this magisterial and enthralling account, Gerard DeGroot gives us the life story of the Bomb, from its birth in the turn-of-the-century physics labs of Europe to a childhood in the New Mexico desert of the 1940s, from adolescence and early adulthood in Nagasaki and Bikini, Australia and Siberia to unsettling maturity in test sites and missile silos all over the globe. By turns horrific, awe-inspiring and blackly comic, The Bomb is never less than compelling.
Author | : Brian Ward |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2009-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1405163291 |
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Drawn from a wide range of perspectives and showcasing a variety of primary source materials, Brian Ward’s The 1960s: A Documentary Reader highlights the most important themes of the era. Supplies students with over 50 primary documents on the turbulent period of the 1960s in the United States Includes speeches, court decisions, acts of Congress, secret memos, song lyrics, cartoons, photographs, news reports, advertisements, and first-hand testimony A comprehensive introduction, document headnotes, and questions at the end of each chapter are designed to encourage students to engage with the material critically
Author | : Sebastian Groes |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2016-05-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441117067 |
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British Fictions of the Sixties focuses on the major socio-political changes that marked the sixties in relationship to the development of literature over the decade. This book is the first critical study to acknowledge that the 1960s can only be understood if, next to its contemporary socio-political history, its fictions and mythologies are acknowledged as a vital constituent in the understanding of the decade. Groes uncovers a major epistemological shift, and presents a powerful meta-narrative about post-war literature in the UK, and beyond. British Fictions of the Sixties offers a re-examination of canonical writers such as Iris Murdoch, Angela Carter, Muriel Spark and John Fowles. It also pays critical attention to avant-garde writers including Ann Quinn, Bridget Brophy, Eva Figes, Christine Brooke-Rose, and J. G. Ballard, presenting a comprehensive insight into the continuing power the decade exerts on the contemporary imagination.
Author | : T. Harris |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2014-04-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137374101 |
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Re-examining the long-held belief that the Sixties in Britain were dominated mainly by 'youth' and 'protest', the authors in the collection argue that innovation was everywhere shadowed by conservatism. A decade fascinated by itself and, especially, by the future, it also was tormented by self-doubt and accompanied by a fear of losing the past.
Author | : Robert Adlington |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2013-07-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0199981027 |
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The 1960s saw the emergence in the Netherlands of a generation of avant-garde musicians (including figures such as Louis Andriessen, Willem Breuker, Reinbert de Leeuw and Misha Mengelberg) who were to gain international standing and influence as composers, performers and teachers, and who had a defining impact upon Dutch musical life. Fundamental to their activities in the sixties was a pronounced commitment to social and political engagement. The lively culture of activism and dissent on the streets of Amsterdam prompted an array of vigorous responses from these musicians, including collaborations with countercultural and protest groups, campaigns and direct action against established musical institutions, new grassroots performing associations, political concerts, polemicising within musical works, and the advocacy of new, more 'democratic' relationships with both performers and audiences. These activities laid the basis for the unique new music scene that emerged in the Netherlands in the 1970s and which has been influential upon performers and composers worldwide. This book is the first sustained scholarly examination of this subject. It presents the Dutch experience as an exemplary case study in the complex and conflictual encounter of the musical avant-garde with the decade's currents of social change. The narrative is structured around a number of the decade's defining topoi: modernisation and 'the new'; anarchy; participation; politics; self-management; and popular music. Dutch avant-garde musicians engaged actively with each of these themes, but in so doing they found themselves faced with distinct and sometimes intractable challenges, caused by the chafing of their political and aesthetic commitments. In charting a broad chronological progress from the commencement of work on Peter Schat's Labyrint in 1961 to the premiere of Louis Andriessen's Volkslied in 1971, this book traces the successive attempts of Dutch avant-garde musicians to reconcile the era's evolving social agendas with their own adventurous musical practice.