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BEATLES
BRITISH INVASION
CALIFORNIA SOUND
CARNAVAL
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CELTIC TRADITION
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DETROIT SOUND
ECSTASY
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GRATEFUL DEAD
GREENWICH VILLAGE
HUXLEY
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LEWIS CARROLL
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PSYCHEDELICS
ROLLING STONES
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TIMOTH YLEARY
TROUBADOURS
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VAN MORRISON
VISIONARY ART
VOODOO
Product details
- ISBN 9781620556429
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Oct 2017
- Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Exploring how 1960s rock and roll music became a school of visionary art, Christopher Hill shows how music raised consciousness on both the individual and collective levels to bring about a transformation of the planet. The author traces how rock and roll rose from the sacred music of the African Diaspora, harnessing its ecstatic power for evoking spiritual experiences through music. He shows how the British Invasion, beginning with the Beatles in the early 1960s, acted as the “detonator” to explode visionary music into the mainstream. He explains how 60s rock and roll made a direct appeal to the imaginations of young people, giving them a larger set of reference points around which to understand life. Exploring the sources 1960s musicians drew upon to evoke the initiatory experience, he reveals the influence of European folk traditions, medieval Troubadours, and a lost American history of ecstatic politics and shows how a revival of the ancient use of psychedelic substances was the strongest agent of change, causing the ecstatic, mythic, and sacred to enter the consciousness of a generation.
Christopher Hill has written about rock and roll music in the pages of Spin, Record Magazine, International Musician, Chicago Magazine, Downbeat, Deep Roots Magazine, and other national and regional publications. His work has been anthologized in The Rolling Stone Record Review, and he is the author of Holidays and Holy Nights. Currently a contributing editor at Deep Roots Magazine, he lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
