Alex Zamalin, "Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop"
English | ISBN: 0807045187 | 2025 | 296 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0807045187 | 2025 | 296 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
A political and intellectual history of American counterculture and the historical figures who redefined mainstream understandings of freedom, culture, art, and politics—from The Beat Generation to Basquiat
This entertaining, intellectual history fulfills the growing appetite for marginalized narratives. Counterculture brilliantlyinterrogates the diversity of counterculture and the interwoven relationship between each individual legacy. From Anarchism to the Harlem Renaissance, Alex Zamalin unveils the humanity behind these romanticized figures and popularized movements to capture revolutionary freedom in action.
American counterculture, defined as a movement whose values are outside and oppositional to mainstream norms and whose practices fundamentally reject what is socially respectable, ultimately transformed the 20th century.
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