Jumping Sundays: The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand - Couverture souple

Bollinger, Nick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1869409515 ISBN 13 : 9781869409517

Editeur : Auckland University Press, 2022

Synopsis

On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1969, thousands of people defied Auckland city bylaws and came to party in Albert Park. A rock band played on the rotunda. Some people held hands, some danced alone, some sat under trees with guitars, flutes and bongos and made music of their own. They wore kaftans, ponchos and leather-fringed jerkins, floppy hats, headbands, beads and flowers. Poetry and political diatribes were delivered from a podium, improvised from an upturned tea chest. There were bikies, balloons, bubbles, sack races and a lolly scramble, lots of dogs and a pet possum. Someone brought a canoe and paddled it around the fountain, until it capsized. As the afternoon wore on there were joss sticks, skyrockets and what some will have recognised as the musky smell of marijuana. . .

— From the Prologue

In Jumping Sundays, award-winning writer and broadcaster Nick Bollinger tells the story of beards and bombs, freaks and firebrands, self-destruction and self-realisation, during a turbulent period in New Zealand’s history and culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nick Bollinger is a Wellington-based writer, broadcaster, and critic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Auckland University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1869409515
• ISBN 13: 9781869409517
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 408
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible