This introduction explores the relationship between the counterculture and American popular culture. It looks at the ways in which Hollywood and corporate record labels commodified and adapted countercultural texts
ISBN:
9780748619894
Author:
Christopher Gair
Page:
234
Binding:
Soft cover
Publication date:
2007
Format:
Book
Publisher:
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Language:
English
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This introduction explores the relationship between the counterculture and American popular culture. It looks at the ways in which Hollywood and corporate record labels commodified and adapted countercultural texts, and the extent to which countercultural artists and their texts were appropriated. It offers an interdisciplinary account of the economic and social reasons for the emergence of the counterculture, and an appraisal of the key literary, musical, political and visual texts which were seen to c