The Music of Counterculture Cinema: A Critical Study of 1960s and 1970s Soundtracks

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Framing Utopia: Monterey Pop and the Heart of the Counterculture
• 2. Creating the Downfall: Gimme Shelter and the “End” of the Counterculture
• 3. Searching for the Real Times, Baby: Head and the Unmaking of the Monkees
• 4. Love in Counterculture Film: Music’s Diplomatic Role in Harold and Maude
• 5. Space Is the Place: Barbarella and Hearing the Future
• 6. Did the Soundtrack Also Blow It?: Using Rock to Capture Counterculture Generational Identity
• 7. Setting the Escapist Scene with Music: Sex and Comedy in an Exotic World
• 8. Generational Genocide: Selling Youth Rebellion in Roger Corman’s Gas-s-s-s
• 9. African American Artists in Hollywood: Isaac Hayes’ Contribution to Shaft
• 10. I’m Watching It for Its Music: Deep Throat and Its Soundtrack
• 11. Challenging Normativity and Pushing Boundaries: Midnight Cowboy and Cultural Resistance
• 12. Ambiguous Meaning of Music: Combining Technology and Music in the Dystopian World of A Clockwork Orange
• 13. Understanding Country Ways: A Talk with Country Joe McDonald About Counterculture Film
• 14. Bringing the 1960s to Life: An Interview with Director Robert Greenwald
• Coda
• Works Cited
• Index