Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties―Augmented Edition: Rock Life in the Sixties―Augmented Edition (Dover Books on Music: History) - Softcover

Sander, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486828476 ISBN 13: 9780486828473

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2019

Synopsis

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,"" Sanders' seminal piece on groupie culture, the lengthy ""Concerts and Conversations,"" as well as a new Preface and chapter postscripts.

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About the Author

In the mid-to-late 1960s, Ellen Sander was The Saturday Review's rock critic. She also wrote for Vogue, The Realist, Cavalier, The L.A. Free Press, and The New York Times. Her writing on rock has appeared in The Conscious Reader, Four Way Street: The CSNY Reader, Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay, and other anthologies

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486828476
• ISBN 13: 9780486828473
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320