BOOM! - a baby boomer memoir, 1947-2022

BOOM! - a baby boomer memoir, 1947-2022
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9781470999957
ISBN-13 : 1470999951
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Book Synopsis BOOM! - a baby boomer memoir, 1947-2022 by : Ted Polhemus

Download or read book BOOM! - a baby boomer memoir, 1947-2022 written by Ted Polhemus and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll . . . Straight from the fridge - I Love Lucy meets The Sopranos in The Twilight Zone. From Elvis to Johnny Rotten, Neptune, New Jersey (with Greetings from Asbury Park) to Swinging London. Some say 'it all happened in the 60s' but in BOOM! anthropologist and social historian Ted Polhemus shows how the roots of our (post) modern age go back to the heady years just after WWII. If you like Mad Men, Blade Runner, American Graffiti, Blow-up, The Wild One . . . wish you'd caught Monk at Minton's Playhouse in 1947, Springsteen at The Stone Pony or The Pistols in London in 1976 (or not) . . . Ted Polhemus' other works include Streetstyle, Fashion & Anti-fashion, Style Surfing and Body Styles.


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