Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Santa Ana, Jeffrey | Scheckel, Susan.
Date
2016-12-01
Keywords
English literature
Department
Department of English
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77502
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
Since the 1960s the American counterculture has been stoked by socio-political and lifestyle movements with a mix of noble ideas, rebellious fervor, and at times even a degree of madness. These movements have correctly been attributed to events worthy of protest and activism, such as the Vietnam War, racial injustice, sexism, and economic inequality, as well as less noble and less developed concerns. However, the power of counterculture music is that it links these causes to a much more universal element of life: sexuality. From the outlandishness of the music of the 1960s, came the trend of sexuality being part of all things worth talking about and doing something about, a source of salvation from the horrors of the reactionary politics exhibited by the far right. As years went on, artists who came about on the wave new movements built upon this important foundation, and continued to galvanize righteous unrest, with sexuality as an all-inclusive form of rebellion, and a focal point for other causes,68 pages
Recommended Citation
Burton, Sean, "Turned On: A Study of Sexuality in American Counterculture Music, 1960-2016" (2016). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3314.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3314