T. Tsimpouki on N. Zimmerman’s Counterculture Kaleidoscope.

Nadya Zimmerman. Counterculture Kaleidoscope. Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2008. As the book’s title implies, Zimmerman’s Counterculture Kaleidoscope seeks to provide an alternative perspective of the late Sixties San Francisco counterculture. In contradistinction to the canonical view of the period as oppositional in orientation, the author offers a new approach to understanding countercultural sensibility in Sa...