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San Francisco and the Long 60s
San Francisco and the Long 60s tells the fascinating story of the legacy of popular music in San Francisco between the years 1965-69. It is also a chronicle of the impact this brief cultural flowering has continued to have in the city – and more widely in American culture – right up to the present day. The aim of San Francisco and the Long 60s is to question the standard historical narrative of the time, situating the local popular music of the 1960s in the city's contemporary artistic and literary at once visionary and hallucinatory, experimental and traditional, singular and universal. These qualities defined the aesthetic experience of the local culture in the 1960s, and continue to inform the cultural and social life of the Bay Area even fifty years later.
The brief period 1965-69 marks the emergence of the psychedelic counterculture in the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood, the development of a local musical 'sound' into a mainstream international 'style', the mythologizing of the Haight-Ashbury as the destination for 'seekers' in the Summer of Love, and the ultimate dispersal of the original hippie community to outlying counties in the greater Bay Area and beyond. San Francisco and the Long 60s charts this period with the references to received historical accounts of the time, the musical, visual and literary communications from the counterculture, and retrospective glances from members of the 1960s Haight community via extensive first-hand interviews.
For more information, read Sarah Hill's blog posts
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The brief period 1965-69 marks the emergence of the psychedelic counterculture in the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood, the development of a local musical 'sound' into a mainstream international 'style', the mythologizing of the Haight-Ashbury as the destination for 'seekers' in the Summer of Love, and the ultimate dispersal of the original hippie community to outlying counties in the greater Bay Area and beyond. San Francisco and the Long 60s charts this period with the references to received historical accounts of the time, the musical, visual and literary communications from the counterculture, and retrospective glances from members of the 1960s Haight community via extensive first-hand interviews.
For more information, read Sarah Hill's blog posts
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372 pages, Paperback
First published October 22, 2015
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Sarah Hill
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Sarah has always had a passion for working with children and families.
After gaining her Bachelor of Arts majoring in Psychology, Sarah spent many years working professionally with children and parents before moving to Byron Bay to train as a yoga teacher, specialising in pre and post natal yoga.
Sarah and her husband Chris welcomed their first baby Briar Rose into the world in 2011.
Fiona
Renowned New Zealand Artist Fiona trained at Auckland’s ELAM School of Fine Arts and then earned a Diploma of Education from Auckland Teachers College.
She is a widely-exhibited artist whose paintings and sculptures are held in private and corporate collections world-wide.
Fiona's career as a commissioned artist blossomed early and she never used her teaching Diploma, but she has maintained her connection with children through her programs of free art classes in New Zealand schools. The freedom of this form of teaching has allowed Fiona the opportunity to continue experiencing the world through the eyes of children.
Madison
Madison has completed her Bachelor of film at SAE, Byron Bay. She excelled in design at school and enjoys putting her talents to work at Beetle Bottoms.
Sarah has always had a passion for working with children and families.
After gaining her Bachelor of Arts majoring in Psychology, Sarah spent many years working professionally with children and parents before moving to Byron Bay to train as a yoga teacher, specialising in pre and post natal yoga.
Sarah and her husband Chris welcomed their first baby Briar Rose into the world in 2011.
Fiona
Renowned New Zealand Artist Fiona trained at Auckland’s ELAM School of Fine Arts and then earned a Diploma of Education from Auckland Teachers College.
She is a widely-exhibited artist whose paintings and sculptures are held in private and corporate collections world-wide.
Fiona's career as a commissioned artist blossomed early and she never used her teaching Diploma, but she has maintained her connection with children through her programs of free art classes in New Zealand schools. The freedom of this form of teaching has allowed Fiona the opportunity to continue experiencing the world through the eyes of children.
Madison
Madison has completed her Bachelor of film at SAE, Byron Bay. She excelled in design at school and enjoys putting her talents to work at Beetle Bottoms.
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August 24, 2018
Best book I've read on SF in the 60s - lots of interesting detail without being dry. Only reason I wouldn't give it five stars is because it ultimately did not answer for me *why* SF, why not elsewhere? Lots of suggestive ideas but nothing very conclusive (and particularly nothing comparative) so somewhat frustrating.
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