The Sixties Unplugged by Gerard Degroot

Author:Gerard Degroot [DeGroot, Gerard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

As a cultural revolution, the Sixties was predominantly white, middle-class, and urban. Miles from the epicenter, the great seismic shifts were felt as tiny tremors. An awareness of what was happening came only from reading newspapers and watching television, not from taking part. “Apparently all hell was breaking loose,” Terri Quaye, a member of Britain’s black community, recalled, “but it made little difference. . . . The release from society’s constraints only applied to the young whites, and as with most phenomena, those enjoying it would find it hard to believe that it was of little consequence to those only permitted to be onlookers.” In 1959, the novelist Beryl Bainbridge was a twenty-five-year-old mother of two living in Liverpool. Motherhood kept her from taking part in the cultural upheaval. “The music and the Purple Hearts passed me by, and it wasn’t until I came to London and Churchill had died and the Kennedys had both been butchered that I woke up to the years I was living through.”21

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