Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Part One 1945-1960 -- Introduction -- Paul Goodman and Betty Friedan -- The Emergence of a Counterculture -- Rock and Roll Rebels Without a Cause: The Emergence of the Teenager -- Notes -- Chapter One - Fiction -- Kerouac and Beat -- Women in the Beat Generation -- Beat and African-American Cultures -- Notes -- Chapter Two - Music -- Jazz -- Blues -- Rock and Roll -- Notes -- Chapter Three - Painting -- Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War -- Abstract Expressionism: Other Voices -- Beyond New York: Other Countercultural Art -- Notes -- Chapter Four - Film -- Hollywood at Mid-century -- Hollywood's Wild Rebel Jungle -- Beat Film -- Notes -- Part Two 1961-1972 -- Introduction -- From JFK to Kent State: Protest and the Counterculture -- Beyond Protest: San Francisco, the 'Summer of Love' and the Counterculture in the '60s -- Notes -- Chapter Five - Fiction -- 'Last-of-the-Beats/First-of-the-Hippies': di Prima, Kesey and Brautigan -- Notes -- Chapter Six - Music -- From Folk to the 'Fab Four' -- Bob Dylan -- Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound -- LA -- The 'Long '60s' -- Notes -- Chapter Seven - Painting -- The Art of Noise -- Art and Protest -- Andy Warhol, The Factory and The Exploding Plastic Inevitable -- Notes -- Chapter Eight - Film -- On the Road Again: Woodstock Goes to Hollywood -- 'In Wildness is the Preservation of the World': Bonnie and Clyde and Deliverance -- Notes -- Index.