Final Call for papers
AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21, 2007
Call for papers
DECIPHERING THE SIXTIES: GEOGRAPHIES OF CULTURE AND COUNTERCULTURE
Organisers: John R. Gold, Oxford Brookes University ([log in to unmask])
and George Revill, Open University ([log in to unmask])
The 1960s have gained a lasting reputation not just as a period of rapid
change in society and the arts, but as one in which the arts participated
in social change; reflecting and influencing the wider culture. That
reputation remains alive through the fascination that the period has for
exhibition curators who lovingly present the work of Sixties’ musicians,
photographers, film-makers, fashion designers and architects as
emblematically capturing the spirit of the Sixties – in varying measures
confident, optimistic, subversive, rebellious, uncompromising, frivolous
and profoundly imaginative. Many elements of the Sixties’ dialogue, and
sometimes confrontation, between dominant and counter-culture proved
short-lived and ephemeral. Others aspects had lasting impact both on
cultural production and, more generally, on cultural politics, on the
conduct of scientific inquiry and as a continuing legacy in the built
environment.
This proposed session seeks papers that wish to explore the geographies of
culture and counterculture from the 1960s. Papers could deal with any of
the following areas:
* music (e.g. folk revivals, popular, progressive classical);
* theatre, dance and cinema (avant-garde and conventional);
* architecture and the built environment;
* visual arts, sculpture and photography
* fashion
* advertising
* community arts and democratisation of the arts
* festivals
* art and protest
* hearths of Sixties counter-culture (e.g. London, Paris, New York and San
Francisco)
Papers on other related topics are also welcome. Please contact John Gold
([log in to unmask]) or George Revill ([log in to unmask])if you are
interested in giving a paper, preferably no later than the 5th of October.
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