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Autumn of Love
Dave Allen
其他書名
How the Swinging 60s and the Counterculture Came to Portsmouth
出版Moyhill Publishing, 2017
ISBN19055977549781905597758
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Fe-CswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"2017 sees the 50th anniversary of the first Summer of Love, when we are told, young people travelled to San Francisco with flowers in their hair, the Beatles released their 'psychedelic' album Sgt. Pepper, Mick Jagger & Keith Richards found themselves in court in Chichester - and in Portsmouth? Well in January of that year, the Pink Floyd plus lightshow arrived at the city's Mod stronghold, the Birdcage, and life was never quite the same again. Partly by focusing on Portsmouth, and also by examining the legacy of those days, Autumn of Love challenges three widely held and frequently- published views about those days: That to participate in all that was happening in the late 1960s, it was necessary to be in one of the great cultural centres such as London, San Francisco, New York, or Los Angeles. That in Britain in particular, the swinging sixties were limited to a tiny, wealthy elite in the heart of London. That the whole countercultural project collapsed around the misdeeds of Manson, the anarchy of Altamont or the killings at Kent State, after which the participants mostly simply returned to 'normality'. In his latest contribution to the history of popular music and culture in and around Portsmouth, Dave Allen recounts how we arrived at that moment, and what followed on from it. He looks at the familiar 60s' topics of sex, drugs and rock & roll from a Portsmouth perspective, but moves beyond that towards today, considering how his generation explored lifestyle alternatives in environmental issues, communal living, politics, education, and spirituality.