The Music of Counterculture Cinema: A Critical Study of 1960s and 1970s Soundtracks

by Mathew J. Bartkowiak and Yuya Kiuchi

Films produced in late 1960s and early 1970s America--along with later films focusing on that period--continue to frame our understanding of the counterculture era. The popular and experimental music of the day is central to the counterculture narrative on film, from the utopian Monterey Pop (1968) to the disenchantment of Gimme Shelter (1970). But the musical side of the movement was not monolithic, and a study of contemporary film...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786475420
• ISBN13: 9780786475421
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher