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Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll

The Rise of America's 1960s Counterculture
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Sex, Drugs, and Rock `n Roll: The American Counterculture of the 1960s offers a unique examination of the cultural flowering that enveloped the United States during that early postwar decade. Robert C. Cottrell provides an enthralling view of the counterculture, beginning with an examination of American bohemia, the Lyrical Left of the pre-WWII era, and the hipsters. He delves into the Beats, before analyzing the counterculture that emerged on both the East and West coasts, but soon cropped up in the American heartland as well. Cottrell delivers something of a collective biography, through an exploration of the antics of seminal countercultural figures Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary, and Ken Kesey. Cottrell also presents fascinating chapters covering "the magic elixir of sex," rock `n roll, the underground press, Haight-Ashbury, the literature that garnered the attention of many in the counterculture, Monterey Pop, the Summer of Love, the Death of Hippie, the March on the Pentagon, communes, Yippies, Weatherman, Woodstock, the Manson family, the women's movement, and the decade's legacies.
Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The Precursors: From Utopia to Huxley Chapter 2: Troubadours for a New American Bohemia: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and the Beats Chapter 3: The Continued Reception of the Beats Chapter 4: From Harvard to Millbrook: Timothy Leary Chapter 5: The Merry Prankster: Ken Kesey Chapter 6: The Magic Elixir of Sex and a Touch of Anarchism Chapter 7: The Magic in the Music Chapter 8: California Dreaming and Haight-Ashbury Chapter 9: Spreading the Word: Alternative Media Chapter 10: People of the Book Chapter 11: From the Human Be-In to the Summer of Love Chapter 12: The Death of Hippie and Early Postmortems Chapter 13: Alternative Living Chapter 14: From Hippie to Yippie on the Way to Revolution Chapter 15: Fighting in the Streets and the Latest Battle of the Bands Chapter 16: COINTELPRO and the Millennium Chapter 17: The Conspiracy, Street Fighting Man, and the Apocalypse Chapter 18: The Not So Slow Fade Chapter 19: It's All Over Now Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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