FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY:
Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: We Wanted the World

The Music

Why the Music Isn’t Over 
Sweet and Dirty Water
Dylan, Cash, and the New Nashville Skyline
When Britain Rocked the Waves
Farewell Starman
Farewell Starship, and Hail Blackstar
Love and Mercy and California Nightmares
Music Hyphenation and the Changing of the Bards
Get Off Our Great Lawn
On Hearing Jimi Hendrix in a Cologne Commercial
The Velvet Motherland and the City of Dreams
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today  (Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band)

The Media123

The Ultimate ‘60s Filmmaker [excerpt]
Bonnie and Clyde: From Theme to Meme
Lawrence of Arabia to W of Iraq 
Gumping on the ‘60s
War is Hell Yeah 
Tomorrowland: Beauty and the BS 
Our Fair Lady
Selma and the ‘60s. 
Selma and the Dramatization of History
The ‘60s and the Films of 2014
Loved It Madly, But Not the History
The N-Word and Other Shocks to The System
Marshall McLuhan: Medium of the Media

The Issues

JFK: 1963, 1991, and the Twenty-First Century
Ferguson Won, Occupy Nothing
The New York PBA: Bringing Back the Ghetto
99 Homes and America Ain’t One
Black Mass for Citizens
Fury Road Lingo and American Ecospeak
Punch the Hippie, Kill the Planet
Helluva Good Country Once (Easy Rider)
Peace Then
Hiroshima
Sticking to Our Guns [excerpt]
Generation Gapped
When Students Struck and Won
When Teachers Struck and Won—and Lost 
Tom Hayden and American Freedom

The Counterculture: Back-And-Forward

Bad Xanadus 
Moon Age Daydreams and TV Reality 
The Left Is Senator Goldwater Now (Some immodest proposals)
Woodstock and All After [excerpt]

Postscript
Notes
References/For Further Reading

 

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