Excelsior Editions
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Excelsior Editions

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Excelsior Editions

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Combining literature, social history, and personal experience, author Robert J. Campbell traces the birth, downfall, and legacy of the innovative, playful, and spontaneous counterculture launched in 1960s Haight-Ashbury. In a lively writing style, Campbell describes the discovery of LSD, its slow adoption, and the promotion of it by Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey, who each became missionaries for the drug. Campbell relates how LSD allowed users to enhance the perception of alternative realities and describes its wide-scale use in the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco from 1964 to 1967 that led to imaginative and creative change, including collaborative behavior, a new way of looking at the world, acid rock, and a host of other paradigm shifts. Haight-Ashbury, Psychedelics, and the Birth of Acid Rock concludes by examining the inherent dangers of constant drug use as well as the positive legacy of the 1960s, including a focus on health food, cooperative living arrangements, recycling, battling climate change, free medical help, and personal responsibility. The book incorporates ideas from a broad range of disciplines for general readers for a unique and fresh look at this impactful era.

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Publisher
Excelsior Editions
Year
2023
ISBN
9781438493350
Topic
Médias et arts de la scène
Subtopic
Musique rock

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1 Setting the Stage
  8. Chapter 2 The Circle Widens
  9. Chapter 3 The Psychedelic (R)Evolution: Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and the Beat Generation
  10. Chapter 4 Moving to the West Coast: The Kesey Wing
  11. Chapter 5 The ’60s at Berkeley: Civil Rights and Free Speech
  12. Chapter 6 Precursors to the Haight: The Red Dog Saloon
  13. Chapter 7 The Flowering of the Haight: Haight-Ashbury Happens
  14. Chapter 8 Acid Rock: The Folk Roots
  15. Chapter 9 The Trip Intensifies
  16. Chapter 10 The Decline of the Psychedelic Consciousness
  17. Chapter 11 The Psychedelic Legacy
  18. Appendix
  19. Notes
  20. Works Cited
  21. Index
  22. Back Cover