| A Generation in Motion |
| Popular Music and Culture in the Sixties |
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!Read me First Introduction Underground in the Fifties The Angry No The Transcendent Yes Alternative Life Styles The Tug of Gravity:Co-option, Absorption, and Shlock Rock Artiness, Absurdity, and Excess The Seventies: Looking Back, Looking Ahead Suggested Recordings Music Quiz Suggested Links |
With a new explanation People in motion People in motion --John Phillips, "San Francisco" Photographs of the sixties flash through my memory: working with SNCC, sitting in a coffee shop somewhere in rural North Carolina with two white friends and a young black journalist, not being served, and refusing to leave until we were served, and still not being served, angry, righteous, anxious, desperate for the courage to continue the journey we had mapped out three hundred miles ago. Knocking on Philadelphia doors, passing out leaflets, and "just talking to people about the war" and about the candidacy of Eugene McCarthy for President of the United States. Rapping with Phil Ochs after a coffeehouse performance in Bryn Mawr. Teaching Thucydides' Pelopponnesian War at an antiwar teach-in in 1967. Hearing Sgt.Pepper, stoned, for the first time. Marching and talking and singing, in large groups and small, in front of cameras and in the solitude of the night, in Philadelphia and Washington and Appalachian villages, on the streets of London, Berlin, Paris and Rome. -- David Pichaske, A Generation in Motion |
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