London Calling
A Countercultural History of London since 1945
Published on 1. March 2010
480 pages
978-1-84887-554-8 (ISBN)
Description
London has long been a magnet for aspiring artists and writers, musicians and fashion designers seeking inspiration and success. In London Calling, Barry Miles explores the counter-culture - creative, avant garde, permissive, anarchic - that sprang up in this great city in the decades following the Second World War. Here are the heady post-war days when suddenly everything seemed possible, the jazz bars and clubs of the fifties, the teddy boys and the Angry Young Men, Francis Bacon and the legendary Colony Club, the 1960s and the Summer of Love, the rise of punk and the early days of the YBAs. The vitality and excitement of this time and years of change - and the sheer creative energy in the throbbing heart of London - leap off the pages of this evocative and original book.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3x4 b/w and 1x4 col. plates
File size
1,16 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84887-554-8 (9781848875548)
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Person
Barry Miles is the author of many seminal books on popular culture, including Frank Zappa; Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now; Ginsberg: A Biography; William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible; Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats and The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris,1957-1963.
Content
- Intro
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One
- 1 A Very British Bohemia
- 2 The Long Forties: Soho
- 3 Sohoitis
- 4 The Stage and the Sets
- 5 This is Tomorrow
- 6 Bookshops and Galleries
- 7 Angry Young Men
- 8 Pop Goes the Easel
- 9 The Big Beat
- Part Two
- 10 The Club Scene
- 11 The Beat Connection
- 12 The Albert Hall Reading
- 13 Indica Books and Gallery
- 14 Up from Underground
- 15 Spontaneous Underground
- 16 International Times
- 17 UFO
- 18 The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream
- 19 The Arts Lab
- 20 The Summer of Love
- 21 Dialectics
- 22 Performance
- 23 The Seventies: The Sixties Continued
- 24 The Trial of Oz
- Part Three
- 25 Other New Worlds
- 26 Fashion, Fashion, Fashion
- 27 COUM Transmissions
- 28 Punk
- 29 Jubilee
- 30 New Romantics and Neo-Naturists
- 31 Leigh Bowery and Minty
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
