The Sixties: The Beatles And Their Time 3304-BEAT60-EL-OG

During the course students will learn about:
- The history of The Beatles
- Social and economic context of the 60s
- Changes in popular culture and youth culture in late 50s and 60s.
- Elements of pop music history
- The elements of the history of the counterculture
- Characteristics of pop art

Moodle assignments - 60%
Test - 40%

Final result:
below 55% - Inadequate (2)
55% -66.99% - Adequate (3)
67% -76.99% - Satisfactory Plus (3+)
77% -85.99% - Good (4)
86% -92.99% - Good plus (4+)
93% -97.99% - Very good (5)
Above 98% - excellent (5!)

Brick Howard, Age of Contradiction. American Thought & Culture in the 1960s, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1998
Charters, Ann, The Portable Sixties Reader, Penguin Books, New York, 2003
Cohen, Elisabeth, A Consumers’ Republic. The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, Vintage Books, New York, 2004
Doggett, Peter, There’s a Riot Going On. Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the ‘60s, Canongate, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2007
Donnelly, Mark, Sixties Britain, Pearson, Edinburgh, 2005
Eclimont, Christian-Louis, Swinging Sixties, Flammarion, Paris, 2009
Emerick, Geoff; Massey, Howard, En studio avec les Beatles, Le Mot et le Reste, 2009
Evans, Mike, The Art Of the Beatles, Beech Tree Books, New York, 1984
Frontani, Michael R, The Beatles: image and the media, University Press of Mississippi, 2007
Gaillard, Alice, Les Diggers, L'Échappée, Montreuil, 2009
Glynn, Stephen, A Hard Day’s Night, I.B. Tauris, London, 2005
Gould, Jonathan, Can’t Buy Me Love. The Beatles, Britain, and America, Harmony Books, New York, 2007
Heale, Michael J., The Sixties in America. History, Politics and Protest, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, 2001
Howard, Gerald, The Sixties. Art, Politics and Media of our Most Explosive Decade, Edited By Gerald Howard, Marlowe & Company, New York, 1995
Jankowski, Kazimierz, Hipisi w poszukiwaniu ziemi obiecanej, Wydawnictwo Jacek Santorski, 2003
Jarniewicz, Jerzy, Kwiatkowska, Alina, Fifty Years With the Beatles, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź, 2010
Jawłowska, Aldona, Drogi kontrkultury, PIW, Warszawa, 1975
Judt, Tony, Powojnie, Rebis, Poznań, 2010
Kimball, Roger, Długi marsz. Jak rewolucja kulturalna z lat 60. zmieniła Amerykę, Sprawy polityczne, Elbląg, 2008,
Kirsch, Hans-Christian, W drodze. Poeci pokolenia beatników, Iskry, Warszawa, 2006
Klejsa, Konrad, Filmowe oblicza kontestacji, Trio, Warszawa, 2008
Lemonnier, Bertrand, Chastagner, Claude et alii, Médias et culture de masse en Grande Bretagne, Armand Colin, Paris, 1999
Lemonnier, Bertrand, L’Angleterre des Beatles, Kime, Paris, 1995
Levy, Shawn, Ready, steady, go! : the smashing rise and giddy fall of Swinging London, Broadway Books, New York, 2003
Lewisohn, Mark, The Complete Beatles Chronicle. Bounty Books, London, 1996
Lewisohn, Mark, The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, Hamlyn Books, London, 1988
Mac Donald, Ian, Revolution in the Head, Le Mot et le Reste, 2010
Marcuse, Herbert, Człowiek jednowymiarowy. Badania nad ideologią rozwiniętego społeczeństwa przemysłowego, PIW, 1991
Marwick, Arthur, The Sixties. Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy and the United States, c.1958-c.1974, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998
Metzger, Rainer, London in the Sixties, Thames & Hudson, London, 2012
Millard, André, Beatlemania. Technology, Business and Teen Culture in Cold War America, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2012
Osterwold, Tilman, Pop Art, Taschen, Köln, 2011
Reich, Charles A., The Greening of America (25th anniversary edition), Three Rivers Press, 1995
Roylance, Brian, The Beatles. Antologia, Hachette, Warszawa, 2002
Rycroft, Simon, Swinging City. A Cultural Geography of London 1950-1974, Ashgate, Farnham, 2011
Sandbrook, Dominic, Never Had It So Good. A History of Britain from Suez to The Beatles, Abacus, London, 2013
Sandbrook, Dominic, White Heat. A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties, Abacus, London, 2011
Sawyers, June Skinner (ed.), Read The Beatles, Penguin Books, 2006
Sean Egan, The Mammoth Books of The Beatles, Running Press Book Publisher, Philadelphia, 2009
Unger, Debbi; Unger, Irwin, The Times Were A Changin'. The Sixties Reader, Three Rivers Press, New York, 1998
Ward, Brian, The 1960s. A Documentary Reader, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, 2010
Wicke, Peter, Rock Music. Culture, aesthetics and sociology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990
Wolfe, Tom, Próba kwasu w elektrycznej oranżadzie, Iskry, Warszawa, 1995

Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:

• Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
• Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
• Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
• Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
• Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
• Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

• Description of 3304-BEAT60-EL-OG in USOSweb