1963, the year of the revolution : how youth changed the world with music, art, and fashion /

Morgan, Robin

1963, the year of the revolution : how youth changed the world with music, art, and fashion / Nineteen sixty-three Robin Morgan and Ariel Lev - First edition. - xv, 240 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Awakenings -- Ambition -- Action -- Alchemy -- Alacrity -- Audacity -- Aftershocks -- Accession.

Assemblage of personal recollections from celebrities involved in the music and fashion industries and other areas of mass culture. An oral history of the year 1963, recounting the kinetic story of the twelve months that witnessed a demographic power shift: the rise of the Youth Quake movement, a cultural transformation through music, fashion, politics, and the arts. For the first time in history, youth became a commercial and cultural force with the power to command the attention of government and religion and shape society. Some of the period's most influential figures recall the incredible roller-coaster ride of those twelve months.



9780062120441 (hbk.)

016502893


Nineteen sixty-three, A.D.
Popular culture--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Popular culture--History--United States--20th century.
Social change--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Social change--History--United States--20th century.
Youth--Social conditions--Great Britain--20th century.
Youth--Social conditions--United States--20th century.


Great Britain--Civilization--1945-
United States--Civilization--1945-

303.48 / .M847 2011