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In Search of the Lost Chord

1967 and the Hippie Idea

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Danny Goldberg's new book is a subjective history of 1967, the year he graduated from high school. It is, he writes in the introduction, "an attempt at trying to remember the culture that mesmerized me, to visit the places and conversations I was not cool enough to have been a part of." It is also a refreshing and new analysis of the era; by looking at not only the political causes, but also the spiritual, musical, and psychedelic movements, Goldberg provides a unique perspective on how and why the legacy of 1967 lives on today.
1967 was the year of the release of the Beatles's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and of debut albums from the Doors, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin, among many others.
In addition to the thriving music scene, 1967 was also the year of the Summer of Love; the year that millions of now-illegal LSD tabs flooded America; Muhammad Ali was convicted of avoiding the draft; Martin Luther King, Jr., publicly opposed the war in Vietnam; Stokely Carmichael championed Black Power; Israel won the Six-Day War; and Che Guevara was murdered. It was the year that hundreds of thousands of protesters vainly attempted to levitate the Pentagon. It was the year the word "hippie" peaked and died, and the Yippies were born.
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    • AudioFile Magazine
      People say if you remember the 1960s--you weren't there. Happily, Johnny Heller's narration convinces us that music insider Danny Goldberg remembers very well what Haight-Ashbury and the hippie movement were all about. This audiobook is a combination of Goldberg's personal recollections, studies, and suppositions about the hippie phenomenon. He digs deep into the era and doesn't shy away from the unsavory parts. Considering the amount of drugs consumed and the "free love" available, folks got a lot accomplished, including ending an unpopular war and creating music that is as vital today as it ever was. M.S. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 10, 2017
      In a “subjective and highly selective” chronicle of 1967, Goldberg (Dispatches from the Culture Wars), a music executive, defends the ideals of the hippies and their lasting impact. After high school, Goldberg headed west to San Francisco, where he experienced firsthand Haight-Ashbury’s countercultural blossoming. He extols the sense of agape, the ancient Greek term for unconditional love, that the hippies professed. The “lost chord” includes LSD and the new music scene, most prominently Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. The ideal was pure, but Goldberg doesn’t avoid various criticisms, including the growing commercialization of the movement and the charge by political radicals such as the Black Panthers and antiwar activists that the “freaks” were merely self-indulgent kids rebelling against their middle-class parents. The drugs were supposedly “mind-expanding,” but they led to destructive behavior, especially after pot and acid were replaced by heroin and speed. Goldberg isn’t blind to these weaknesses, but loyally defends the period as “a flash to indicate something different was possible.” He credits the hippies with bringing environmentalism, yoga, meditation, and organic food, among other things, into the mainstream of American life. While often just skimming the surface of complex issues, Goldberg brings a personal passion that itself illustrates the lasting resonance of the hippie era. Agent: Laura Nolan, Kuhn Projects.

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