London calling : a countercultural history of London since 1945 / Barry Miles.
Published / Created:
London : Atlantic, 2010.
Physical Description:
xii, 468 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Peter Burton 1800: Dust jacket. From the Peter Burton Collection.
Contents:
A very British Bohemia -- The long forties : Soho -- Sohoitis -- The stage and the sets -- This is tomorrow -- Bookshops and galleries -- Angry young men -- Pop goes the easel -- The big beat -- The club scene -- The beat connection -- The Albert Hall reading -- Indica Books and Gallery -- Up from the underground -- Spontaneous underground -- International times -- UFO -- The 14 hour technicolor dream -- The arts lab -- The summer of love -- Dialectics -- Performance -- The seventies : the sixties continued -- The trial of Oz -- Other new worlds -- Fashion, fashion, fashion -- COUM Transmissions -- Punk -- Jubilee -- New romantics and neo-naturists -- Leigh Bowery and Minty.
Subject Terms:
Counterculture -- England -- London -- History -- 20th century. | London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. | London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. | Counterculture. | Intellectual life. | Manners and customs. | England -- London. | Burton, Peter -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
History.
Contributors:
Peter Burton Collection (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)