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"Popular culture is the collection of ideas or memes that are popular, well-liked or common and create the prevailing culture.
"Popular culture is the views and perspectives most strongly represented and accepted within a society." - Wikipedia
"What we now call the 1960s began with JFKs Inaugural and ended with Nixon's resignation...roughly."
- I. M. Clarke, in an isolated moment of insight
It's fitting that we begin this blog on 60s pop culture a few days after the death of Number Six, aka 'The Prisoner', aka Patrick McGoohan (1928 - 2009). Thesis have been about this TV program (which lived for just 17 episodes), trying to unravel—what TV Guide suggested—is "a weird, enigmatic drama, a Kafkaesque allegory about the individual's struggle in the modern age."
Very '68.
Which TV programs of today stem from The Prisoner's family tree? What of music? And fashion? As Ray Davies once wrote: "Where have all the swinging Londoners gone? Ossie Clark and Mary Quant. And what of Christine Keeler, John Stephen and Alvaro, where on earth did they all go? Mr. Fish and Mr. Chow, I wonder where they all are now."
We're only 'here' because we were once 'there'. But be careful as we consider 'pop'.
Wikipedia defines 'reminisce' this way: "Indulge in enjoyable recollection of past events." Sounds like a dead end. Why don't we breathe fresh air and 'remember' 60s pop with an eye on 2009.
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| So long pal... |
Last thought to Ray Davies. "And I wonder what became of all the rockers and the mods. I hope they're making it, they all have steady jobs."