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Circular breathing: the cultural politics of jazz in Britain (2005)
Book
McKay, G. (2005). Circular breathing: the cultural politics of jazz in Britain. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press

In Circular Breathing, George McKay, a leading chronicler of British countercultures, uncovers the often surprising ways that jazz has accompanied social change during a period of rapid transformation in Great Britain. Examining jazz from the foundin... Read More about Circular breathing: the cultural politics of jazz in Britain.

The social and (counter)cultural 1960s in the USA, transatlantically (2005)
Book Chapter
McKay, G. (2005). The social and (counter)cultural 1960s in the USA, transatlantically. In C. Gruenenberg, & J. Harris (Eds.), Summer of Love: Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and the Counterculture in the 1960s (35-62). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

In this chapter I want to look at the counterculture of the 1960s, primarily at the American phenomenon, with specific reference to political, social and cultural questions. I am conscious that these are not so easily distinguished—that, in fact, for... Read More about The social and (counter)cultural 1960s in the USA, transatlantically.