I'm still contemplating which areas I'll focus on. Most historians are adamant about the impact of music/performance, politics etc but their have been some interesting suggestions from historian Sharon Monteith who emphasises the significance of "pseudo-events" in the sixties. I am currently pursuing this idea and questioning how they may have impacted upon historians' respresentations of the sixties as a revolutionary era of change and rampant progress.
An interesting excerpt from American culture in the 1960s By Sharon Monteith:

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