Resource guide to the 1960s
Looking for the latest or greatest scholarship and thinking on the 1960s? Here’s a sample of books, films, articles and exhibitions that CHS staff have been reading:
- Michael Kramer‘s The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture (Oxford University Press, 2013)
- Fred Turner‘s From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
- Greg Castillo’s Hippie Modernism (Walker Art Center, 2015) Note: check out the essay on Places Journal
- David Bernstein’s The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde (University of California Press, 2008)
- Andrew Kirk’s Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism (University Press of Kansas, 2007)
- Peter Richardson’s No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead (St. Martin’s Press, 2015)
- Walter Isaacson’s The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Simon & Schuster, 2015)
- Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Picador, 2008)
- Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner, editors; West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977 (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
- John Markoff’s What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (Penguin, 2006)
- William Rorabaugh’s American Hippies (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- Bellevue Art Museum’s exhibition Counter-Couture: Fashioning Identity in the American Counterculture (9/4/2015 – 1/10/2016)
- Walter Art Center’s exhibition Hippie Modernism (10/24/2015 – 2/28/2016)
- Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place, a documentary film by Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood
- The Life and Times of the Red Dog Saloon, a documentary film by Mary Works
- Trips Festival The Movie, a documentary film by Eric Christensen
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