Featuring a wide array of iconic rock posters, period photographs, music memorabilia and light shows, "out-of-this-world" clothing, and avant-garde films, this catalogue celebrates San Francisco's rebellious and colorful counterculture that blossomed in the years surrounding the 1967 Summer of Love. This book explores, through essays and a succession of thematic plates, the visual and material cultures of a generation searching for personal fulfillment and social change. Presenting key cultural artifacts of the time, Summer of Love introduces and explores the events and experiences that today define this dynamic era. With essays by Victoria Binder, Dennis McNally, and Joel Selvin. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibition dates: de Young, San Francisco: April 8-August 20, 2017
This book weaves a fascinating narrative that separates surprising fact from entrenched mythology.
30th anniversary edition tells, through photos and words exactly what the psychedelic world of the Haight-Ashbury was like.
" Locus MagazineLisa Mason has published eleven novels including Summer of Love (a Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book), The Gilded Age (a New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library ...
Two young women from different social classes meet and form an instant attraction to one another.
Running throughout the essays are the elements of epochal change—from sexual liberation to student revolutions—that still form the backdrop of our collective consciousness of the 1960s.
Crazy Rich Asians meets Love & Gelato in this hilarious, quirky novel about a Chinese-American teen who is thrust into the decadent world of Beijing high society when she is sent away to spend the summer in China.
As such, it bears comparison with another landmark collection, the Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music, compiled by Harry Smith and released in 1952. Although not on a par with the Folkways Anthology as an act of historical ...
The story of the birth of acid house and dance music and club culture in the UK - as told by the men and women who made it happen.
Summer of Love: The Making of Sgt. Pepper: A Book
Praise for Katie Fforde 'A funny, fresh and lively read' heat 'A sweet and breezy read - the ideal accompaniment to a long summer's evening' Daily Mail 'A witty and generous romance .