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Book SynopsisMaking the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca.
Trade Review'Making the Scene is a crackling good read... Henderson brings historian's eye for detail to the proceedings and also a socio-anthropologist's penchant for primary research, making Making the Scene a compelling and stimulating read... A detached, non-sentimental and objective account of Canada's most lively countercultures and the impact that resonates to this day.' -- Zachary Houle Popmatters: July 12, 2011 Brilliantly conceived and engaging, Stuart Henderson's Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s, argues that counterculture is performed by actors "within", not outside, of the cultural process...This book is a masterful piece about an important episode in Canadian youth culture and ideological history. -- CHA Clio Prize Committee 'Making the Scene presents a rich variety of contemporary and retrospective depictions woven together with more general ruminations upon the nature of the place, performance, and projection onto the screen of wider popular culture that was, at the time, Canada's preeminent "hip" neighbourhood...This capably documented and artfully told account of hip Yorkville in the 1960s makes an indispensable contribution.' -- Mike Mowbray Canadian Journal of Sociology; vol 37:03:2012 'Stuart Henderson has provided a richly layered history of some of the people and cultural trends of Canada's 1960.' -- Michael Boudreau Canadian Historical Review, vol 94:02:2013
Table of ContentsPART ONE: Setting the Scene, to 1963 * Remaking the Scene * Getting to Yorkville PART TWO : Performing Yorkville, 1964-66 * Riots, Religion, & Rock'n'Roll * Are You Here To Watch Me Perform? PART THREE : Under Yorkville's Spell, 1967 * Village Politics and the "Summer of Love"* Authenticity among the Fleurs du Mal PART FOUR: Hold it, It's Gone, 1968-70 * Social Missions in the Teen-Age Jungle * Toronto's Hippie Disease PART FIVE: Conclusion * An Immense Accumulation of Spectacles Where They Landed Works Cited Notes
