![]() ![]() The experimental music, arts and poetry scene are shown to have driven and shaped the popular arts in the Underground and, until about 1967, when popular music developed and radicalized, experimental musicians were central to Underground culture, so that popular musicians learnt from experimental music to create the psychedelic and electronic Underground. ![]() It examines the rise of the London Underground scene, from its early stirrings in the New Left movement, to the counterculture from about 1965, both as alternative (hippie or ‘hippie-ish’) and oppositional (protest and revolutionary) movements. This chapter is one of two on Britain in 1968 (the other being Allan Moore’s treatment of popular music). As a whole, this book provides an international perspective on the role of music in the intense cultural, social and political changes that occurred around 1968.
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