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Synopsis

What is Counterculture?
- It's an alternative lifestyle...
- The ideas that spark a revolution...
- A movement that changes the world...

This new collection of essays celebrates the incredible originality of British post-war culture. British art, film, theatre, dance, literature and music have attracted international recognition, from the Angry Young Men to the Sex Pistols to Grayson Perry. Now gaming, the internet and social media enable creative communities to flourish and either fight for social justice - or just be entertained.

Can we find the creative inspiration to succeed in a postcapitalist future?

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À propos des auteurs

Rebecca Gillierson is an editor with over 15 years' experience working on fiction and non-fiction titles for independent publishers. Also a musician, she has played guitar, keyboards, drums and sung in a number of bands (Subway Sect, The Ghosts, Private Trousers), releasing three critically acclaimed albums on high profile UK and US labels with her band Wetdog and touring Europe and the US. She runs a record label 'Southend Records' in the town where she now lives.

Cheryl Robson is a producer of several independent films, most recently Rock 'n' Roll Island, broadcast on BBC4, winner of 4 awards at film festivals and nominated for Raindance Film Festival. She worked at the BBC for several years and then taught filmmaking at the University of Westminster, before setting up a theatre company producing and developing women's plays. She also created a publishing company where she has edited over one hundred and fifty books including co-editing Celluloid Ceiling: women film directors breaking through. She has published over 300 international writers and won numerous awards. As a writer, she has won the Croydon Warehouse International Playwriting Competition been longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize and has had several stage plays produced.
www.cherylrobson.net

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