The Sixties area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes submissions on any aspect of popular culture from the era. Topics of interest might include, but are not limited to:
- Film, television, radio, and other media (underground press, posters, etc.)
- Analysis of influential books/authors or arts/artists
- Religion and spirituality
- Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll
- Music and fashion, as cultural expression and/or consumer culture
- New social arrangements e.g. communes, back to the land movement
- 1968 or other significant dates, places, or events, e.g. Days of Rage, etc.
- Countercultural movements—hippies, Diggers, SDS, Black Panther Party, White Panther Party, etc.
- Politics and protests of the era e.g. Civil Rights, Vietnam
- Race and gender issues e.g. the 1968 Olympic Project for Human Rights, NOW
- Media representations of and reactions to all of the above
- Rock music, the counterculture, or other developments in international/global contexts (i.e. outside the US and UK)
- The ongoing significance of the decade in contemporary society and culture
For individual papers, please submit a title and 150-250-word abstract.
Inquiries about possible papers or proposals for round table sessions or full panels are also welcomed and encouraged. For themed paper sessions, each presenter must enter her/his own presentation and then contact the area chair to assemble them into a panel.
Please feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about topics, process, or the conference in general.
Kevin M. Moist
Associate Professor of Communications
Communications Program Chair
Penn State Altoona
3000 Ivyside Park
Altoona, PA 16601
814-949-5779
kmm104@psu.edu
