Making the Scene

by University of Toronto Press

• ISBN13: 9781442610712
• ISBN10: 1442610719
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-20
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

During The 1960s. Toronto's Yorkville district attracted thousands of hippies, bikers, artists, musicians, and curious on lookers alike. Always a contested space, the neighbourhood served as an island of countercultural vibrancy in the centre of 'Toronto the Good.' It was a kaleidoscopic scene a music lover's fantasy, a magnet for young drifters, a street theatre, a flashpoint for controversy, a perpetual block party, a media obsession, and a place where sex was almost as easy to come by as marijuana, speed, and Lsd.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Map of Yorkville	p. xi
Setting the Scene, to 1963
Remaking the Scene	p. 3
Getting to Yorkville	p. 31
Performing Yorkville, 1964-6
Riots, Religion, and Rock'n'Roll	p. 75
Are You Here to Watch Me Perform?	p. 109
Under Yorkville's Spell, 1967
Village Politics and the Summer of Love	p. 145
Authenticity among the Fleurs du Mal	p. 172
Hold It, It's Gone, 1968-70
Social Missions in the Teenage Jungle	p. 211
Toronto's Hippie Disease	p. 242
Conclusion: An Immense Accumulation of Spectacles	p. 271
Epilogue: Where They Landed	p. 275
Notes	p. 279
Works Cited	p. 345
Illustration Credits	p. 363
Index	p. 365
Illustrations follow page	p. 148
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