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Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, with a New Preface Paperback - 2002
by W. T. Lhamon
"Ingenious. . . . Lhamon's brief analysis of mid-fifties rock 'n' roll is one of the best in print."--"New England Quarterly." "The oxymoron 'deliberate speed' is a fitting title for this superb book about America in transition."--P.I. Rose, "Choice."
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W. T. Lhamon 's "Deliberate Speed" is a cultural history of the 1950s in the United States that directly confronts the typical view of this decade as an arid wasteland. By surveying the artistic terrain of the period - examining works by figures as varied as Miles Davis, Ralph Ellison, Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, Little Richard, Charlie Parker, Jackson Pollock, Thomas Pynchon, and Ludwig Wittgenstein - Lhamon demonstates how many of the distinctive elements that so many attribute to the revolutionary period of the 1960s had their roots in the fertile soil of the 1950s. Taking his title from Chief Justice Earl Warren's desegregation decree of 1955, Lhamon shows how this phrase, "deliberate speed," resonates throughout the culture of the entire decade. The 1950s was a period of transition - a time when the United States began its shift from an industrial society to a postindustrial society, and the era when the first barriers between African-American culture and white culture began to come down. "Deliberate Speed" is the story of a nation and a culture making the rapid transition to the increasingly complex world that we inhabit today.
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- Title Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, with a New Preface
- Author W. T. Lhamon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-05-31
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780674008731 / 0674008731
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.99 x 5.99 x 0.95 in (22.83 x 15.21 x 2.41 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Civilization - 1945-, Popular culture - United States - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89026197
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.9
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