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Seventies: The Sights, Sounds and Ideas of a Brilliant Decade (Paperback)
Short Description for SeventiesA wonderfully entertaining and fascinating mosaic of the 1970s, arguing that it was much more than just the decade that taste forgot and actually represents a key period in 20th-century culture.
Full description- Publisher: POCKET BOOKS
- Published: 02 July 2007
- Format: Paperback 480 pages
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- Categories: Popular Culture | General & World History | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 | Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000
- ISBN 13: 9781416502623 ISBN 10: 1416502629
- Sales rank: 372,646
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Full description for Seventies
When people think of culture in the 1970s they usually conjure up a confetti of kitsch, a jumble of disposable trash in which pet rocks vie for space with the Partridge Family to the tune of the Bay City Rollers. It was, so the received wisdom goes, the decade that taste forgot, a cultural wasteland compared to the decade that preceded it or those that have followed it. Not so, as Howard Sounes argues brilliantly and convincingly in this breathtaking tour of a decade's cultural endeavour. The 1970s may have had flares and big hair, but it also had Martin Scorsese, Lou Reed, David Hockney, Iris Murdoch, Jack Nicholson, David Bowie, John Updike, Diane Arbus, Monty Python, Richard Rogers -- and, of course, Snoopy. Weaving the stories of these and many other key figures together in a mesmerising and compelling mosaic, Howard Sounes shows why their contributions had such resonance at the time and why they still retain their cachet now. In doing so he completely re-invents the reputation of a decade, revealing the 1970s to be far richer and more significant in the shaping of the twenty-first-century world than we could have imagined.
