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“The Explosion of Deferred Dreams” Book Talk & Signing | SF

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Tuesday, May 23, 2017 - 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm | Cost: FREE*
*RSVP appreciated, but not required.

The Booksmith | 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117

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As the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music, political movements, “flower power,” “acid rock,” and “hippies”; The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco, 1965-1975 offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Author, musician, and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan explores the dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone, the United Farm Workers and Santana, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and the New Left and the counterculture.

A must-read for any musician, historian, or person who “was there” (or longed to have been), The Explosion of Deferred Dreams is substantive and provocative, inviting us to reinvigorate our historical sense-making of an era that assumes a mythic role in the contemporary American zeitgeist.

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Cost: FREE*
*RSVP appreciated, but not required.
Categories: Literature
Address: 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117