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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Haight-Ashbury, Psychedelics, and the Birth of Acid Rock

Haight-Ashbury, Psychedelics, and the Birth of Acid Rock

Szatmary, David P.
Szatmary, David P.
Campbell, Robert J.

Paperback

Series: Excelsior Editions

20th Century United States HistoryPop/RockRegional: Pacific Northwest

ISBN10: 1438493363
ISBN13: 9781438493367
Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
Published: Jul 1 2023
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Illuminates the beginnings, downfall, and legacy of the acid-inspired, spontaneous, and playful approach to life and music in Haight-Ashbury from 1964-1967.

Combining literature, social history, and personal experience, author Robert J. Campbell traces the birth, downfall, and legacy of the innovative, playful, and spontaneous counterculture launched in 1960s Haight-Ashbury. In a lively writing style, Campbell describes the discovery of LSD, its slow adoption, and the promotion of it by Timothy Leary and Ken Kesey, who each became missionaries for the drug. Campbell relates how LSD allowed users to enhance the perception of alternative realities and describes its wide-scale use in the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco from 1964 to 1967 that led to imaginative and creative change, including collaborative behavior, a new way of looking at the world, acid rock, and a host of other paradigm shifts. Haight-Ashbury, Psychedelics, and the Birth of Acid Rock concludes by examining the inherent dangers of constant drug use as well as the positive legacy of the 1960s, including a focus on health food, cooperative living arrangements, recycling, battling climate change, free medical help, and personal responsibility. The book incorporates ideas from a broad range of disciplines for general readers for a unique and fresh look at this impactful era.

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