The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision Media, Counterculture, Revolt

Despite the explosion of scholarly interest in the "global 1968" phenomenon, the seminal influence of the arts - in both their popular and avant-garde iterations - has too often been neglected. Student activism in the space of the university and the street made up only a part of the broad anti-authoritarian eruption of 1968, and not even necessarily the most important one. Arguably more fundamental was a broad democratization of cultural production in which avant-garde artists and youthful appropriators alike played a leading role. Cultural forms such as art, "happenings," fashion, comics, movies, and music were critically important to the new youth sensibility and its dissemination within society more broadly. Popular music and visual culture were among the most important of these categories, opening up new vistas of emancipatory possibility and fueling the development of new stylistic codes. This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection brings together scholars in history, film and media studies, cultural studies, art history, music and other disciplines to consider the symbiosis of the sonic and the visual that so powerfully shaped sixties counterculture.

Timothy Scott Brown is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern University, USA. His previous books include Between the Avant-Garde and the Everyday: Subversive Politics in Europe, 1957 to the Present and Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and Performance.
 
Andrew Lison teaches in the Modern Culture and Media Program at Brown University, USA.

1. Red Noise: Pop and Politics in Post-1968 France; Jonathyne Briggs
2. Mapping Tropicália, Christopher Dunn
3. Magical Mystery Tours: Godard and Antonioni in America; David Fresko
4. Opening and Activating a Depth Dimension: The Politics of Privacy in the New American Cinema; Josh Guilford
5. Utopia and Dystopia in the Science Fiction Film circa 1968; Kathrin Fahlenbrach
6. 'Art is Love is God': Language and Sound in Wallace Berman's Aleph, 1956-66; Chelsea Behle Fralick
7. Guitar Smashing; Wolfgang Kraushaar
8. "The Revolution is over - and we have won!': Alfred Hilsberg, West German Punk and the Sixties; Jeff Hayton
9. The Sun and Moon Have Come Together: Fourth Way, Liberatory Aesthetics and Countercultural Spirituality; Kevin Fellezs
10. "A Weapon In Our Struggle For Liberation": Black Arts, Black Power, and the 1969 Pan-African Cultural Festival; Samir Meghelli
11. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, but It Will Be Recorded: Soul, Funk, and the Black Urban Experience, 1968-1979; Francesca D'Amico
12. "Jukebox Modernism: The Transatlantic Sight and Sound of Peter Blake's Got a Girl (1960-61)"; Melissa Mednicov
13. Uninteresting Pictures: Art and the Anti-Humanism of 1968; Joshua Shannon
14. 1968 and the Future of Information; Andrew Lison