American Cultural Rebels

Roy Kotynek is professor emeritus of history, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. He lives in Rochester. Professional musician and author John Cohassey has contributed numerous biographical and cultural entries for Gale Research. He lives in Pontiac, Michigan. Both Koytnek and Cohassey served as consultants for the History Channel program Hippies (2007).

• Table of ContentsPreface      I. FATAL DESTINIES      Restless Youth: The Roots of Nineteenth-Century Countercultures      Visions of Utopia      Apprentices in the City of Light      The Arrival of Bohemia      II. GILDED AGE VANGUARDS      Bohemian Frontiers      Lafcadio Hearn’s New Orleans      Bohemian Clubs      Stirrings Across the Sea      American Aesthetes      The Trilby Craze      Bohemian Demimondes      Symbolists and Decadents      III. MODERN TEMPERS, MODERN TIMES      Crosscurrents of Liberation      Jack London’s Piedmont Crowd      Anarchists, Moderns, and the Robert Henri Circle      Stieglitz and Stein, Proponents of the New      Poetry in Porkopolis      IV. “CITY OF AMBITION”      Modernism’s Storm Center      Voices of Young America      Assemblages of a Different Kind      The Village Idea      V. AMERICANS IN PARIS      A Lost Generation?      The Left Bank      The Free City of Montmartre      American Enclaves      Independent Presses, Little Magazines      Life Among the Dadaists and Surrealists      A Musical Training Ground      Moderns on the Riviera      VI. THE SEARCH FOR AMERICA      The Primacy of Place      Stieglitz’s Constellation      “Land of Buried Cultures”      Hollywood Decadence      “Paris in My Own Backyard”      The Chicagoans      “Harlem Nocturne”      The Village Transformed      VII. RADICALS AND MODERNS      The Turn Leftward      Theater of Revolt      The Mainstreaming of Modernism      VIII. “BOHEMIA AFTER DARK”: MODERN JAZZ AND THE BEAT GENERATION      Bebop Makes the Scene      The Epitome of Hip      Beats of the New Vision      San Francisco’s Angel-Headed Hipsters      The Beat of the Beat Generation      Voices of the Village      Beatnik Bohemias      IX. THE 1960S MUSICAL AVANT-GARDES      Experiments of the Mind, Experiments of the Machine      Electronic Composers      The Jazz Freedom Principle      Trane and Miles      X. THE ADVERSARY CULTURE      “Revolution in the Air”      Duchamp’s Shadow      The Living Theatre      Happenings      East Village Others      California’s Musical Rainbow      L.A. Freak-out      Epilogue      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index