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

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

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 flashpo...

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

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