This event will be on Friday, December 2nd, at 7:30pm, in our basement

As the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the
media with debates and celebrations of music, political movements,
"flower power," "acid rock," and "hippies";
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams
offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Author, musician, and native San Franciscan
Mat Callahan explores the
dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone,
the United Farm Workers and Santana, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz
and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and the New Left and the
counterculture.
Callahan's meticulous, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the political and social context for the
San Francisco Sound and the vibrant subcultural uprisings
with which it is associated. Using dozens of original interviews,
primary sources, and personal experiences, the author shows how the
intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San
Francisco, briefly, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary
upsurge.
A must-read for any musician, historian, or person who
"was there" (or longed to have been),
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams
is substantive and provocative, inviting us to reinvigorate our
historical sense-making of an era that assumes a mythic role in the
contemporary American zeitgeist.