Preserving the Sixties :  Britain and the 'Decade of Protest' / 
edited by Trevor Harris and Monia Carla O'Brien Castro. 
 - [Basingstoke] :  Palgrave Macmillan,  (c)2014. 
 - 1 online resource (xvi, 197 pages) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Foreword; Dominic Sandbrook --  Introduction; Trevor Harris and Monia O'Brien Castro --  1. Sixties Britain: the Cultural Politics of Historiography; Mark Donnelly --  PART I: POLITICS --  2. The 1960s: Days of Innocence; R.J. Morris --  3. The Abortion Act 1967: a Fundamental Change?; Sylvie Pomïs-Mařchal and Matthew Leggett --  4. Industrial Relations in the 1960s: the End of Voluntarism?; Alexis Chommeloux --  5. The Radical Left and Popular Music in the 1960s; Jeremy Tranmer --  PART II: CULTURE --  6. Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Friel's Freedom of the City; Martine Pelletier --  7. Pulp Diction: Stereotypes in 1960s British Literature; Peter Vernon --  8. Sketchy Counterculture; Judith Roof --  9. Psychic Liberation in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; Ben Winsworth --  10. Preservation Society; Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski --  Conclusion; Trevor Harris and Monia O'Brien Castro. 
<br/><br/> It is often claimed that the Sixties in Britain were dominated mainly by 'youth' and 'protest'. True, the desire to escape outmoded social, moral and artistic conventions was illustrated in a rich, provocative cultural production, as well as through a number of radical social and political movements or reforms. However, as this collection argues, innovation was everywhere shadowed by conservatism. A decade fascinated by itself and, especially, by the future, was tormented by self-doubt and accompanied by a fear of losing the past. Ultimately the 'radicalism' of the Sixties in Britain is also visible in its conservatism, in the spectacular, novel ways in which the decade expressed and absorbed the new, yet preserved the old. Rather than pitting radical against conservative, the authors' interpretation of the Sixties may well gain by attempting to see how these two apparently antagonistic qualities in fact represent opposite sides of the same problem. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781137374103 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Popular culture--History--Great Britain--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DA589  / .P747 2014