Psychedelia and Other Colours
Psychedelia and Other Colours
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Published:
3 August, 2017
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Description
A Guardian, Mojo and Rough Trade Book of the Year
Fifty years on from the psychedelic summer of love, acclaimed music writer Rob Chapman explores what was really going on during those heady times. In America he traces the multi-media history of the Light shows, Happenings, Be-Ins and Acid tests, and illustrates the thriving avant-garde scene that existed long before the Grateful Dead and the Fillmore Auditorium came into being.
In the UK, he shows an entirely different history, never before explored in such breath-taking detail, where the sublime and the silly co-existed side by side in a peculiarly British take on flower power that drew inspiration as readily from fairy tales, fairgrounds and music halls, as it did from LSD. With a fascinating new perspective on the role of the Beatles, Psychedelia and Other Colours documents a cultural phenomenon, in psychedelia's seminal text.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780571282746 |
| ISBN10 | 0571282741 |
| Number Of Pages | 656 |
| Item Weight | 875 g |
| Product Dimensions | 153 x 234 x 46 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Faber & Faber |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main |
Media Reviews
Brilliantly written, crammed full of original ideas and, dare I say it, a little educational too. It is a marvellous read. - Shindig Ashley Norris
Psychedelia and Other Colours, a work of rare scholarship and insight, opens a window onto a much misunderstood multicoloured era. - Spectator Ian Thomson
As an account of psychedelia's glorious highs and preposterous charms, Chapman's exhaustive exploration of this Arcadian age with take its rightful place as the standard text - The New Statesman Rob Young
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Author's Bio
Rob Chapman is the author of perhaps the most acclaimed biography of Syd Barrett: An Irregular Head. He has written three other books and was a member of the Bristol based group, The Glaxo Babies.