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Golden State, Golden Youth : The California Image in Popular Culture, 1955-1966 »

Authors: Kirse Granat May
ISBN-13: 9780807853627, ISBN-10: 0807853623
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, The
Date Published: April 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Kirse Granat May

Book Synopsis

May explores the creation and dissemination of idealized images of California youth culture—broadcast, for example, through beach movies such as Gidget, TV shows such as the Mickey Mouse Club, and the music of the Beach Boys—that came to dominate the popular imagination in the 1950s and 1960s.

Los Angeles Times

Golden State,Golden Youth [is] wholly fascinating in its savvy take on the making and manipulation of popular culture.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Suburban Eden	9
2	California Disneying	27
3	Come Along and Sing Our Song	49
4	Gidget Without a Cause	67
5	Wish They All Could Be California	95
6	Beach Blanket California	117
7	Berkeley and Watts	135
8	Reagan's Conservative Wave	169
9	Endless Summer	185
	Notes	193
	Bibliography	213
	Index	241

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