London has long been a magnet for aspiring artists and writers, musicians and fashion designers seeking inspiration and success. In London Calling, Barry Miles explores the counter-culture - creative, avant garde, permissive, anarchic - that sprang up in this great city in the decades following the Second World War. Here are the heady post-war days when suddenly everything seemed possible, the jazz bars and clubs of the fifties, the teddy boys and the Angry Young Men, Francis Bacon and the legendary Colony Club, the 1960s and the Summer of Love, the rise of punk and the early days of the YBAs. The vitality and excitement of this time and years of change - and the sheer creative energy in the throbbing heart of London - leap off the pages of this evocative and original book.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Barry Miles
EAN: 9781843546146
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES: 480
WEIGHT: 487 g
HEIGHT: 198 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Atlantic Books
DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-02-01
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GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History
WIDTH: 129 mm
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Book Themes:
London, Greater London, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, European history, Social and cultural history
Barry Miles is the author of many seminal books on popular culture, including Frank Zappa; Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now; Ginsberg: A Biography; William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible; Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats and The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris,1957-1963.