SKU: AP.6-828476
Rock Life in the
Sixties--Augmented
Edition. Composed by
Edited by Ellen Sander.
Reference Textbooks;
Textbook - General. Dover
Edition. Rock. Book.
Dover Publications
#06-828476. Published by
Dover Publications
(AP.6-828476).
ISBN
9780486828473.
English.
Name an
iconic Sixties rock
moment and Ellen Sander
was probably there. A
beautifully written,
sweeping yet intimate
account of America's
cultural awakening in
that decade. Massively
entertaining -- Rolling
Stone.
As a
pioneering rock
journalist for Hit
Parader, Vogue, Saturday
Review, and other
publications, Ellen
Sander had a backstage
pass to the hottest music
scenes of the 1960s. In
this feast of juicy
anecdotes and keen social
commentary, she draws
upon her professional and
personal experiences to
chronicle pop culture's
highs and lows during the
turbulent decade. Join
her for weird and wild
road trips with
companions ranging from
Yippies to the members of
Led Zeppelin. Stops along
the way include the folk
music clubs of Greenwich
Village, Haight-Ashbury
in its riotous heyday,
and the euphoric
festivals at Monterey and
Woodstock.
It is a
memoir, a sourcebook, and
a love letter, Sander
writes, a recollection of
a time, parenthesized by
ambivalence and apathy, a
search for the ultimate
high, a generation with
an irrepressible vision,
its art, artists, its
audience, and the
substance of its
statement. This expanded
edition of Trips adds The
Plaster Casters of
Chicago, Sander's seminal
piece on groupie culture,
the lengthy Concerts and
Conversations, as well as
a new Preface and chapter
postscripts.
Simply one of the
best pieces of rock
reportage ever written.
-- Los Angeles Review of
Books.
