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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Fred Turner |
ISBN: | 9780226817460 0226817466 |
OCLC Number: | 834409169 |
Description: | 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Part 1- World War II and the making of the democratic surround : Where did all the fascists come from? -- World War II and the question of national character -- The new language of vision -- The new landscape of sound -- Part 2. The democratic surround in the Cold War : The Cold War and the democratic personality -- The Museum of Modern Art makes the world a family -- Therapeutic nationalism -- The coming of the counterculture. |
Responsibility: | Fred Turner. |
Abstract:
Reveals in The Democratic Surround, the decades that brought us the Korean War and communist witch hunts also witnessed an extraordinary turn toward explicitly democratic, open, and inclusive ideas of communication and with them new, flexible models of social order.
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"In what will surely be a controversial revision, Fred Turner maps the attempts of social scientists, industrial designers, European expats and others to mold democratic personalities as a bulwark against authoritarianism, forming a civil foundation upon which arose spatial media experiments of the arts and counterculture of the 1960s. From an Americana more associated with Aaron Copeland comes the radical surround sound of John Cage; from image management of psyches, psychedelic media environments." -Douglas Kahn, author of Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts" Read more...
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- Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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- Contre-culture -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
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