{"product_id":"1963-the-year-of-the-revolution-how-youth-changed-the-world-with-music-art-and-fashion-isbn-9780062120458","title":"1963: The Year of the Revolution: How Youth Changed the World with Music, Art, and Fashion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeginning in London and ricocheting across the Atlantic, \u003cem\u003e1963: The Year of the Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e is an oral history of twelve months that changed our world—the Youth Quake movement—and laid the foundations for the generation of today.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAriel Leve and Robin Morgan's oral history is the first book to recount the kinetic story of the twelve months that witnessed a demographic power shift—the rise of the Youth Quake movement, a cultural transformation through music, fashion, politics, theater, and film. Leve and Morgan detail how, for the first time in history, youth became a commercial and cultural force with the power to command the attention of government and religion and shape society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the Cold War began to thaw, the race into space heated up, feminism and civil rights percolated in politics, and JFK’s assassination shocked the world, the Beatles and Bob Dylan would emerge as poster boys and the prophet of a revolution that changed the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1963: The Year of the Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e records, documentary-style, the incredible roller-coaster ride of those twelve months, told through the recollections of some of the period’s most influential figures—from Keith Richards to Mary Quant, Vidal Sassoon to Graham Nash, Alan Parker to Peter Frampton, Eric Clapton to Gay Talese, Stevie Nicks to Norma Kamali, and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eIt was the year the Cold War first thawed, the space race accelerated, feminism and civil rights exploded, President Kennedy's assassination numbed the world, and the Beatles and Bob Dylan emerged as the poster boys and prophet, respectively, of a revolution that changed everything. It was the year when youth, for the first time in history, became a commercial and cultural force with the power to shape society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1963\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book to recount the kinetic story of the Youth Quake movement—the liberation of youth through music, fashion, and the arts—told in the voices of those at the forefront, from Keith Richards to Eric Clapton, Mary Quant to Vidal Sassoon, Graham Nash to Peter Frampton, Alan Parker to Gay Talese, Stevie Nicks to Norma Kamali, and many more. A fast-paced, historical eyewitness account, it is also an inspiration to anyone in search of a passion, an identity, and a dream.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eA lively, insightful read about a transformative year. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDan Rather\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA vivid and exhilarating guide to the year that revolutionized pop culture and shook the world, told by the movers and the shakers, themselves. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMick Brown, author of Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary year, a great cast of characters, a terrific book. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSir Alan Parker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A rollercoaster ride through the year that fashioned the world as we know it today, 1963 reveals the seeds of our greatest cultural revolution in the words of the artists who created it. This is a must read for anyone interested in how pop culture, and particularly pop music, was both representative of the age and a catalyst for change.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictoria Broackes, Head of Performance Exhibitions, V\u0026amp;A Museum London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...a must read for anyone interested in how pop culture, and particularly pop music, was both representative of the age and a catalyst for change. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictoria Broackes, Head of Performance Exhibitions, V\u0026amp;A Museum London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dey Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44888082907365,"sku":"NP9780062120458","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062120458.jpg?v=1730228109","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/1963-the-year-of-the-revolution-how-youth-changed-the-world-with-music-art-and-fashion-isbn-9780062120458","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}