1968 on Elsewhere by Graham Reid - browse 4 items of content tagged as '1968'.
Bill Elliot and the Elastic Oz Band: God Save Us (1971)
The problem with political songs is that so often they are merely sloganeering and headlines. Fine print and nuance can't make it into a three minute song.
Still, there's nothing quite like a chant such as "power to the people" -- even if we are never quite sure which people should have the power.
For a few years from the late...
> fromthevaults/3261/bill-elliot-and-the-elastic-oz-band-god-save-us-1971/
THE SIXTIES by ARTHUR MARWICK: The big picture of the isms and schsims
One of the more mindlessly amusing one-liners about the Sixties says that if you remember them t.hen you weren’t there. Duh.
That sitcom aphorism reduces the decade to flakiness and drugs, and bears no serious scrutiny at all.
By rule-of-thumb and common consensus, what are loosely called the Sixties are the five years between She...
> writingelsewhere/3124/the-sixties-by-arthur-marwick-the-big-picture-of-the-isms-and-schsims/
THE BIG OYSTER by MARK KURLANSKY
One of the conspicuous growth areas in non-fiction has been in the genre of what we might call single-issue histories where a writer takes a seemingly mundane or commonplace subject -- be it tulips in Amsterdam, the humble potato or ubiquitous chocolate -- and expand a history around it.
The acknowledged master of this genre, and the most...
> writingelsewhere/2714/the-big-oyster-by-mark-kurlansky/
THE SIXTIES by JENNY DISKI: What a long strange trip . . .
Has any decade been more feted, essayed and mythologised than the Sixties? The flowers in hippies’ headbands had barely wilted when the analysis began, and since then many of those who were there have hailed it as rare period in human history, the like of which . . .
The past few years have seen 40th anniversaries: the assassinations...
> writingelsewhere/2607/the-sixties-by-jenny-diski-what-a-long-strange-trip/
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