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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Rise and Fall of the American Counterculture
    sub title: a History of the Hippies and Other Cultural Dissidents
  name:
    name part: Bach, Damon
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Anderson, Terry H.
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The Rise and Fall of the American Counterculture examines the cultural dissidents and cultural revolutionaries of the 1960s era: the hippies. It fills a major void in the historical literature. Most scholars have focused on one aspect of the counterculture, examined it in a couple of locations, or relegated it to a single chapter. Moreover, scholarly narratives have been nearly identical, repeating the same themes and events, while presenting similar explanations for hippiedom's origins and decline. Many historians utilize secondary sources and rely heavily on Theodore Roszak's pioneering work. This study is different - it is the first comprehensive history of the hippies and other cultural dissenters, documenting the counterculture throughout the United States from its antecedents in the 1950s, to its origins in the early 1960s, to its emergence in the mid 1960s, to its blooming in the late 1960s, to its decline in the 1970s. Moreover, this study is based on documents seldom examined by historians, the underground newspapers, interviews, flyers, and pamphlets produced by counterculturalists. These sources provide crucial insights into the hippie philosophy and illuminate the forces that caused the counterculture's materialization and decline. The Rise and Fall of the American Counterculture contends that hippiedom's development occurred in four stages: its antecedents and origins from 1945 to 1965; its nascent period in 1965 and 1966; its flowering from 1967 to 1970; and its zenith and waning from 1970 through 1973. Cold War America - the institutions, culture, and government - alienated the youths who eventually became hippies. The counterculture's constitution underwent fundamental transformations. When it emerged, it consisted entirely of cultural dissidents. By the late 1960s, however, New Leftists, who had earlier differed from hippies in philosophy and appearance, began to embrace dope, long hair, liberated sexuality, and countercultural clothing. A partial b…
  note: by Damon Bach.
  note: "Major Subject: History"
  note: Includes vita.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A & M University 2013 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151736
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major History
  subject:
    topic: counterculture
  subject:
    topic: hippies
  subject:
    topic: 1960s
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151736
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 140623
    record change date: 20151206101824.0
    record identifier: in00003479046
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng