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  • The Music of Counterculture...
    Kitts, Thomas M

    The Journal of American Culture, 03/2017, Letnik: 40, Številka: 1
    Book Review

    Deep Throat draws on the free love movement to make pornography chic, while using music that, instead of complementing, clashes with the action on the screen, and Roger Corman's Gas-s-s-s, an inane film in which everyone over twenty-five is poisoned, tries to appeal to the counterculture audience for, as Country Joe says, "to cash in on the youth culture" (175). The cynical and politically alive Head, often considered the Monkees' quest for countercultural legitimacy, breaks narrative conventions and, in the process, breaks audience expectations of the group, which was created for prime-time television and to live outside the social and political turmoil of the 1960s. Gimme Shelter's focus on the events surrounding Altamont, including the business of a Stones' tour and a distracted audience, further suggests that the music, despite perceptions, never steered the countercultural movement.