1st Edition

A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area

By Anthony Ashbolt Copyright 2013
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    The San Francisco Bay Area was a meeting point for radical politics and counterculture in the 1960s. Until now there has been little understanding of what made political culture here unique. This work explores the development of a regional culture of radicalism in the Bay Area, one that underpinned both political protest and the counterculture.

    Chapter 1 Introduction: The Culture and Politics of Space; Chapter 1a The Culture Wars and the Sixties; Chapter 2 Go West!; Chapter 3 Free Space, Free Speech; Chapter 4 SDS Goes West; Chapter 5 Genesis of a Counterculture; Chapter 6 The Contradictions of Cultural Radicalism; Chapter 7 Liberated Territory; Chapter 8 Revolutionary Dreams, Provincial Politics; Chapter 9 Soulful Socialism and Felicitous Space;

    Biography

    Ashbolt, Anthony