BOOM! Sex, drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll
. . . and vanilla cream pie served by that waitress in The Neptune Diner who lives on in so many Tom Waits songs.
Straight from the fridge – I Love Lucy meets The Sopranos in The Twilight Zone.
From Elvis to Johnny Rotten, Neptune, New Jersey (with Greetings from Asbury Park) to Swinging London, Hipsters to . . . today’s, er, Hipsters.
Some say ‘it all happened in the 60s’ but in BOOM! anthropologist and social historian Ted Polhemus shows how the roots of our (post) modern age penetrate back to the heady years just after WWII.
If you like Mad Men, Blade Runner, American Graffiti, Blow-up, I Was a Teenage Werewolf . . . wish you’d caught Monk at Minton’s Playhouse in 1947, Springsteen at The Stone Pony in 1975 or The Pistols in London 1976 (or not) . . .
Includes
– Sources & Inspiration: Music, Film, TV, Fiction, Non-fiction
– Do the timewarp with the 1947- 21st century Timeline
+Fire up your Kindle – the Kindle edition of BOOM! – a Baby Boomer Memoir 1947-2022 now contains 125+ recently updated links to film trailers, music tracks and historic film clips from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
An entirely new way of reading a book, the Kindle edition of BOOM! makes it possible to leap from, say, a discussion of Marlon Brando in The Wild One to the original 1953 trailer for that sensational film.
‘What are you rebelling against?’
‘Wha ya got?’
Other books by Ted Polhemus: Fashion & Anti-fashion, Streetstyle, Bodystyles, Popstyles, Style Surfing
Targeted Age Group:: 18+ teens to old baby boomers like me
How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others?
I write in many different genres. When I moved on to BOOM! I realized that I need to weave together social history and my own personal development. A would-be Beat and modern jazz fan in the early 60s, then a hippy in the later 60s, then – having moved to London from the US – a glam rocker, Punk and New Romantic in the 70s my own life (and even my old clothes) trace out the history of popular culture in the era dominated by the baby Boomers.
What Advice Would You Give Aspiring Writers?
All creative work is as much about what you leave out as you put in. Figure out what your subject is and then draw a straight line between the beginning and the end. Things you might get side-tracked onto can be used in another book. For each and every book I have someone in mind who is my ideal reader (often a real person) and then I write the book for them.
Author Bio:
For more than thirty years Ted Polhemus has explored and celebrated the extraordinary ways that popular culture opens a window onto a broader understanding of the world we live in. Never judgemental, never the ‘style guru’ some have erroneously labelled him, he scrupulously avoids distinguishing between the good, the bad and the ugly – while always thrilled by the creativity of all those ‘real people’ who, decade after decade, have given constant impetus to music, style, design, dance and so many of the things which made and make our age that unique period in human history when Culture went pop! and became truly democratic.
In the past I have written specially about streetstyle but increasingly it seemed obvious to me that all aspects of popular culture and the broader history have to be looked at together, as a dynamic of style, music, TV and film, food, sex, politics. And I was further empowered to write BOOM! as I came to realize how younger generations are already beginning to get a fuzzy picture of even the second half of the 20th century.
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