Making the Scene : : Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s / / Stuart Henderson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Henderson, Stuart,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 12 photos; 2 maps

Making the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca. It narrates the hip Village's development from its early coffee house days, when folksingers such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell flocked to the scene, to its tumultuous, drug-fuelled final months. A flashpoint for hip youth, politicians, parents, and journalists alike, Yorkville was also a battleground over identity, territory, and power. Stuart Henderson explores how this neighbourhood came to be regarded as an alternative space both as a geographic area and as a symbol of hip Toronto in the cultural imagination.Through recently unearthed documents and underground press coverage, Henderson pays special attention to voices that typically aren't heard in the story of Yorkville - including those of women, working class youth, business owners, and municipal authorities. Through a local history, Making the Scene offers new, exciting ways to think about the phenomenon of counterculture and urban manifestations of a hip identity as they have emerged in cities across North America and beyond.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Map of Yorkville -- PART ONE Setting the Scene, to 1963 -- 1 Remaking the Scene -- 2 Getting to Yorkville -- PART TWO Performing Yorkville, 1964–6 -- 3 Riots, Religion, and Rock’n’Roll -- 4 Are You Here to Watch Me Perform? -- PART THREE Under Yorkville’s Spell, 1967 -- 5 Village Politics and the Summer of Love -- 6 Authenticity among the Fleurs du Mal -- PART FOUR Hold It, It’s Gone, 1968–70 -- 7 Social Missions in the Teenage Jungle -- 8 Toronto’s Hippie Disease -- Conclusion: An Immense Accumulation of Spectacles -- Epilogue: Where They Landed -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Illustration Credits