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Title:

1967 : a complete rock music history of the summer of love / Harvey Kubernik.

Author:

Kubernik, Harvey, 1951- author.

ISBN:

9781454920526

Personal Author:

Kubernik, Harvey, 1951- author.

Physical Description:

264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Content Type:

text

Media Type (RDA):

unmediated

Carrier Type:

volume

Contents:

Between the lines -- 1966 was (also) a very good year -- Aboard the frigate -- Hearing a new frequency -- The ramifications of involvement -- Cool clarity -- Sound and vision with a mission -- Stax of wax -- The rave new world -- The realm of the possible -- Barefoot in the park -- An autumn shade of pale -- With appropriate flashbacks -- Psychedelic supermarket -- Fifty years on.

Abstract:

During late spring 1967, tens of thousands of young people began streaming into San Francisco, kicking off a counterculture revolution and cultural explosion that was the Summer of Love. Now, on the 50th anniversary of that revolutionary event, acclaimed journalist and pop culture historian Harvey Kubernik takes us on an insider's look at the happenings in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and beyond--in the months leading up to, during, and after that seminal summer--through the lens of rock music. This lush volume features a trove of little-known and previously unpublished interviews with scenemakers and musicians of the time and the people who knew them; psychedelic festival posters, concert flyers, and other 1960s ephemera; and stunning images from acclaimed photographers of the era.

Subject Term:

Rock music -- 1961-1970 -- Pictorial works.

Rock music -- California -- Los Angeles -- History and criticism.

Rock music -- California -- San Francisco -- History and criticism.

Nineteen sixty-seven, A.D.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Format:

Books

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Summary

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the "Summer of Love" and the revolutionary music of 1967.

During late spring 1967, tens of thousands of young people began streaming into San Francisco, kicking off a counterculture revolution and cultural explosion that was the Summer of Love. Now, on the 50th anniversary of that revolutionary event, acclaimed journalist and pop culture historian Harvey Kubernik takes us on an insider's look at the happenings in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and beyond--in the months leading up to, during, and after that seminal summer--through the lens of rock music.

This lush volume features a trove of little-known and previously unpublished interviews with scenemakers and musicians of the time and the people who knew them; psychedelic festival posters, concert flyers, and other 1960s ephemera; and stunning images from acclaimed photographers of the era.

Author Notes

Harvey Kubernik, a lifelong resident of Southern California, is a veteran music journalist whose work has been published nationally in Melody Maker, the Los Angeles Free Press , Variety , Goldmine , the Los Angeles Times , and MOJO , among others. He is a record producer and noted documentary film and radio interview subject, and a former West Coast director of A&R for MCA Records. Kubernik is the author of several books, including Canyon of Dreams (Sterling), Neil Young: Heart of Gold , and Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows (both Backbeat Books). He lives in Los Angeles.