I'd add the Arthur Marwick book on the 60's from Oxford Univ. Press to this "Gates of Eden, " by Dickstein is great.Writes on everything from Black Power, the Rosenbergs, and the Rolling Stones. Michael Pugliese
Cultural Politics & Protest
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Ali, Tariq, Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties (London & Glasgow: Fontana/Collins, 1987) [Good on student/radical politics; 909.826 Ali]. ——— and Susan Watkins, 1968: Marching in the Streets (London: Bloomsbury, 1998) [An illustrated account of the global political protests that characterised '68]. Baldwin, James, The Fire Next Time (1963) [an essay and a 'letter' to his nephew which have become classic statements of the black experience in America. Baldwin engages with black and white history and power in all their complexity, suggesting that "Whoever debases others is debasing himself" and that nobody is innocent in a racist history: "It is not permissable that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime]. Berke, Joseph (ed), Counter Culture: The Creation of an Alternative Society (London: Peter Owen, 1969) [a collection of essays, manifestos, graphics and documents]. Burner, David, Making Peace with the Sixties (Princeton N.J.: Princeton Uni. Press, 1996). Carr, Gordon, The Angry Brigade: The Cause and the Case (London: Victor Gollancz, 1975) [Early chapters are good on French and English radicalism; 301.6333 Car]. Caute, David, Sixty-Eight: The Year of the Barricades (London: Paladin, 1988) [although it concentrates on the politics and counter-cultural protests of 1968 this study deals with a range of cultural phenomena world wide]. Clarke, Michael, The Politics of Pop Festivals (London: Junction Books, 1982). Cleaver, Eldridge, Soul On Ice: Selected Essays (1969) Cockburn, Alexander, and Robin Blackburn, Student Power: Problems, Diagnosis, Action (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969). Cooper, David (ed.), The Dialectics of Liberation (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968) [Essays on radical 60s political positions]. Debord, Guy, Society of the Spectacle (1967) [a dense post-industrial analysis of the dynamics of the media-driven 'spectacular' commodity culture, and the key text of the French Situationists. Endlessly plundered for slogans, this and related works describe a specific turn that critical theory took in the 60s]. Dickstein, Morris, Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties (New York: Basic Books 1977; repr. Harvard University Press, 1997) [973.92 DIC]. Esler, Anthony, Bombs, Beards and Barricades: 150 Years of Youth in Revolt (New York, 1972). Fanon, Frantz, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) [a classic text of anti-colonialism and a source book for the Black struggle]. Farren, Mick & Edward Barker, Watch Out Kids (London: Open Gate Books, 1972) [a brief, personal and engaged account of the development and politics of the British counter-culture]. Feldman, Gene and Max Gartenberg (eds), Protest (London: Panther 1960). Figes, Eva, Patriarchal Attitudes: Women in Society (1970). Fraser, Ronald, et al, 1968:A Student Generation in Revolt (London: Chatto & Windus, 1988). Friedan, Betty, The Feminine Mystique (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965). Gitlin, Todd, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (New York: Bantam Books, 1987; repr 1993) [an essentially American pespective, but very good on new left and counter-cultural politics, with some interesting pieces on music, etc.; 973.92 GIT]. ——— The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left (Berkeley, L.A., London: University of California Press, 1980) [Analyses the ways in which the American media reported protest and dissent in a media-saturated decade]. Goldstein, Richard, Reporting the Counterculture (London & Winchester Mass.: Unwin Hyman, 1989). Green, Jonathon, All Dressed Up: The Sixties and the Counterculture (London: Jonathan Cape, 1998) [A highly recommended account of the origins, practices and outcomes of the 60s counter-culture in Britain]. Greer, Germaine, The Female Eunuch (1970) [Classic early feminism]. ——— The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays & Occasional Writings 1968-1985 (London: Picador, 1987) [collected shorter essays and journalism including both mainstream material and all of her underground-press writings, drawn from publications like Oz, It, Suck, Spare Rib, etc]. Grogan, Emmett, Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps (New York: Little Brown & Co, 1972) [the autobiography of Emmett Grogan, the larger than life member of the San Francisco anarchist collective The Diggers. It travels from the mean streets of Brooklyn, through junk addiction, big-time burglary and murder, to the summer of love heyday in Haight-Ashbury and elsewhere. A gripping macho hippy adventure.] Hall, Stuart, 'The Hippies: An American "Moment"', Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Stencilled Occasional Paper (University of Birmingham: October, 1968). Hall, Stuart, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke and Brian Roberts, Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1978) [ch 8 contains a sharp analysis of political currents in the sixties; 364.155.Pol]. Halloran, D., Philip Elliott and Graham Murdock, Demonstrations and Communication: A Case Study (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970) [An analysis of the anti-Vietnam march in London on 27th October 1968. Some discussion of 60s protest in Britain, but the emphasis is on the media ‘framing’ of the demonstration as a news ‘event’]. Hamalian, Leo, and Frederick R. Karl (eds), The Fourth World: The Imprisoned, the Poor, the Sick, the Elderly and Underaged in America (1976). Harvey, Sylvia, May '68 and Film Culture (London: British Film Institute, 1978) [the first chapter contains an interesting account of the events in Paris '68]. Hoffman, Abbie, Steal This Book (New York: Pirate Editions, 1971; repr. New York & London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996) [The best known book by Hoffman, who, along with Jerry Rubin, formed the theatrical focus of the Yippies. Some of this text is available on the internet (Click Here). Also recommended is Revolution for the Hell of It by 'Free' (Hoffman), (Dial Press: New York, 1968)]. Hornsey College of Art Students and Staff, The Hornsey Affair (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1969) ['insider' accounts of the staff/student takeover at Hornsey in May 1968]. Hutchinson, Roger, High Sixties: The Summers of Riot and Love (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1992). Jackson, George, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971). Jameson, Fredric, 'Periodizing the 60s', in The Ideologies of Theory: Essays 1971-1986, Volume 2: The Syntax of History (London: Routledge, 1988), pp. 178-208. [A dense theoretical piece which attempts to view the 60s in the broad frame of late capitalism; originally published in Sayers et al, The 60s, Without Apology]. Leech, Kenneth, Youthquake: The Growth of a Counter-Culture Through Two Decades (London: Sheldon Press, 1973) [Good survey; 301.22 Lee]. MacArthur, Brian (ed), The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Protest (London: Viking, 1998). Mailer, Norman, 'The White Negro', in Feldman and Gartenberg, Protest (also reprinted in The Penguin Book of the Beats). Maitland, Sara (ed), Very Heaven: Looking Back at the 1960s (London: Virago, 1988) [Personal accounts of the 60s by women, from a range of political, social and cultural viewpoints, including 'Truly it Felt Like Year One' by Angela Carter. 942.0856 Ver]. Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, with the assistance of Alex Haley (1965). Marcuse, Herbert, Eros and Civilization (1955). ————One Dimensional Man (1964). ————Essay on Liberation (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972) [Often cited as a concise expression of counter-cultural political theory]. Martin, Bernice, A Sociology of Contemporary Cultural Change (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981) [a sociological study which attempts to theorise and historicise cultural change and account for a range of the features of the 60s counter culture. 301.2 MAR]. McKay, George, Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance Since the Sixties (London: Verso, 1996) [although concerned with the post-60s counter-culture, this work fully documents the legacies and transmutations of 60s alternativism and activism by charting such 70s-90s developments as free festivals, new age travellers, anarcho-peace movements, the rave culture, eco-radicals, etc]. McLuhan, Marshall, Understanding Media (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964). Mellor, David Alan, and Laurent Gervereau (eds), The Sixties, Britain and France, 1962-1973: The Utopian Years (London: Philip Wilson, 1997) [a large format lavishly illustrated book, foregrounds art, design, image and fashion, but contains interesting essays on music, youth, politics, the counter-culture, the new press, cinema, etc]. Mitchell, Juliet, Woman's Estate (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971). Moore-Gilbert, Bart and John Seed (eds), Cultural Revolution? The Challenge of the Arts in the 1960s (London & New York: Routledge, 1992) [Highly recommended; 700.103]. Musgrave, Frank, Ecstasy and Holiness: Counter Culture and the Open Society (London: Methuen, 1974). Neville, Richard, Playpower (St Albans: Paladin, 1971). Newfield, Jack, A Prophetic Minority: The American New Left (1967). Nuttall, Jeff, Bomb Culture (1968) [An insiders view of the early counter culture; 301.24]. Plant, Sadie, The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age (London & New York: Routledge, 1992) [Good on radical movements (especially French); a very good section on Paris '68]. Quattrocchi, Angelo and Tom Nairn, The Beginning of the End: France, May 1968 (London: Panther Books, 1969) [Reprinted, with a preface by Tariq Ali, by Verso in 1998, this book is half a lyrical paean to the revolution as witnessed from the barricades, and half a political analysis of the events and their significance. A related volume is Jill Neville's novel The Love Germ (reprinted by Verso in 1998); Neville was Quattrocchi's lover and OZ editor Richard Neville's sister]. Peck, Abe, Uncovering the Sixties: The Life and Times of the Underground Press (New York: Pantheon, 1985; repr. New York: Citadel Press, 1991) [an insider account of the American underground press and its contexts; from hippie beginnings, through dissent and political engagement to its factionalist demise during the 70s]. Reich, Charles A. The Greening of America (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972). Roszak, Theodore, The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and its Youthful Opposition (1969; repr. Berkeley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 1995) [An informed, if indulgent, study of the counter culture; 301.22]. Rowbotham, Sheila, Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties (London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2000) [a memoir that expands to cover radical history, the left and the rise of feminism]. ——— Dreams and Dilemmas: Collected Writings (London: Virago, 1983). Rowe, Marsha (ed), Spare Rib Reader (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) [although Spare Rib didn't appear until June 1972, it, like the women's movement itself, "was a product of the counter-culture and a reaction against it", as Marsha Rowe writes, and "part of a broadening out of our political awareness" that characterised the wake of the 60s]. Rubin, Jerry, Do It!: Scenarios of the Revolution (London: Jonathan Cape, 1970) [an anarchic biography/political analysis by one of the key figures, along with Abbie Hoffman, in the Yippie movement]. Sayres, Sohnya, Anders Stephanson, Stanley Aronowitz, Fredric Jameson (eds), The 60s, Without Apology (Minneapolis: Uni. of Minnesota Press, 1984) [Double issue of Social Text; a comprehensive survey and affirmation of the importance of the revolutions in politics and art in the 60s; 973.92/SIX]. Seale, Bobby, Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party (London: Arrow Books, 1970). Smith, Patricia Juliana (ed), The Queer Sixties (New York and London: Routledge, 1999) [Gay culture, politics, icons and readings, with essays on popular fiction and film, Andy Warhol and Valerie Solanis, Joe Orton, Dusty Springfield, The Beatles, Jim Morrison, James Baldwin, and Gore Vidal]. Stanshill, Peter, and David Mairowitz, BAMN (By Any Means Necessary): Outlaw Manifestoes and Ephemera 1965-70 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971). Thompson, Hunter S., 'The "Hashbury" is the Capital of the Hippies", in The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time (London: Picador, 1980) [Thompson's essays are good examples of the new journalism]. Unger, Urwin, The Movement: A History of the American New Left 1959-1972 (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1974). Vague, Tom, Anarchy in the UK: The Angry Brigade (London, Edinburgh & San Francisco: AK Press, 1997) [a 'diary' of the Angry Brigade's history and underground/terrorist resistance in late 60s/early 70s Britain]. Viénet, René, Enragés and Situationists in the Occupation Movement, France, May '68 (New York & London: Autonomedia/Rebel Press, 1992). Widgery, David, Preserving Disorder: Selected Essays, 1968-88 (London: Pluto Press, 1989). ——— The Left in Britain 1956-68 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976) [329.942/WID]. Williams, Raymond (ed), May Day Manifesto 1968 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968). Wyatt, David, Out of the Sixties: Storytelling and the Vietnam Generation (1993).
Radical Pedagogy
Berg, Leila, Risinghill: Death of a Comprehensive School (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968). Cosin, B.R. (ed) Education: Structure and Society (Harmondsworth: Penguin,1972). Illich, Ivan, Celebration of Awareness: A Call For Institutional Revolt (Harmondsworth: Penguin,1973). ————Deschooling Society (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973). Friere, Paulo, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972). Neill, A.S., Summerhill (Harmondsworth: Penguin,1968). Postman, Neil and Charles Weingartner, Teaching as a Subversive Activity (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971). Reimer, Everett, School is Dead: An Essay on Alternatives in Education (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971). Rubenstein, David and Colin Stoneman (eds), Education For Democracy (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970). Smith, Mike, The Underground and Education: A Guide to the Alternative Press (London: Methuen, 1977).
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