1960s London
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Barry Miles
Beat Generation
Black Dwarf
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Cosmic Nature
countercultural movements
counterculture
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David Widgery
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Expanded Cinema
Fine Day
Friend To Friend
High Data Content
historical geography of 1960s London
Independent Group
international
london
London's Counterculture
Marcuse 1969a
modernist architecture
nature
Non-linear Basis
paper
Performative Innovations
Played Back
Pop Stars
Post-war
postwar British society
press
Swinging London
Swinging Scene
times
underground
Underground Press
underground press analysis
urban cultural studies
Vice Versa
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138253155
- Weight: 370g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 09 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book works with two contrasting imaginings of 1960s London: the one of the excess and comic vacuousness of Swinging London, the other of the radical and experimental cultural politics generated by the city's counterculture. The connections between these two scenes are mapped looking firstly at the spectacular events that shaped post-war London, then at the modernist physical and social reconstruction of the city alongside artistic experiments such as Pop and Op Art. Making extensive use of London's underground press the book then explores the replacement of this seemingly materialistic image with the counterculture of underground London from the mid-1960s. Swinging City develops the argument that these disparate threads cohere around a shared cosmology associated with a new understanding of nature which differently positioned humanity and technology. The book tracks a moment in the historical geography of London during which the city asserts itself as a post-imperial global city. Swinging London it argues, emerged as the product of this recapitalisation, by absorbing avant-garde developments from the provinces and a range of transnational, mainly transatlantic, influences.
Simon Rycroft, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Sussex, UK
