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Author:	Nick Bromell
Title:	Tomorrow Never Knows
Subtitle:	Rock And Psychedelics In The 1960s
Publisher:	University Of Chicago Press
Country:	USA
Date:	13 Nov 2000
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Music, Academia
ISBN-13:	9780226075532
Total Editions:	2
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226 pages. Book dimensions: 1.91 cms x 14.61 cms x 21.59 cms.

Extract from the inside flap:

"There was something rigorous and instructive in getting stoned and listening to music as if it really mattered," writes Nick Bromell in the first book to take seriously the "drugs and rock 'n' roll" side of the 1960s-a side too often eclipsed by oversimplifications of that decade's hedonism or political idealism. To truly understand those years, Bromell argues, we must go back to the primal scene in which listening to rock-the Beatles, Dylan, Doors, Hendrix-was fused with the experience of being high. What did young people hear? What did they feel and think and learn?

Tomorrow Never Knows focuses not on the stars who produced the music or on the leaders of the counterculture, but on those who sat in their dorm rooms and group houses, smoked dope, and played albums. Weaving together memoir and musicology, history and politics, Bromell shows how millions of listeners mixed rock and psychedelics in a quest to make sense of themselves and their times. This combination was not mere escapism, he argues, but a vital public philosophy, one that we must do justice to in order to comprehend not just the past but the present.

Tomorrow Never Knows describes, in vivid language, how music moved into new sonic configurations, how people's minds moved into new chemical configurations, and how this confluence of music and drugs expressed, reflected, and in many ways created the uncertainty, doubt, and drama seminal to contemporary culture. Tomorrow Never Knows is both a meditation on the ways the present remembers the past and an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the cataclysmic 1960s.

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