Jumping Sundays [electronic resource] : The Rise and Fall of the Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand
Nick Bollinger2022
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On a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1969, thousands of people defied Auckland
city bylaws and came to party in Albert Park. A rock band played on the rotunda.
Some people held hands, some danced alone, some sat under trees with guitars,
flutes and bongos and made music of their own. They wore kaftans, ponchos and
leather-fringed jerkins, floppy hats, headbands, beads and flowers. Poetry and
political diatribes were delivered from a podium, improvised from an upturned
tea chest. There were bikies, balloons, bubbles, sack races and a lolly
scramble, lots of dogs and a pet possum. Someone brought a canoe and paddled it
around the fountain, until it capsized. As the afternoon wore on there were joss
sticks, skyrockets and what some will have recognised as the musky smell of
marijuana. . . -From the PrologueIn Jumping Sundays, award-winning writer and
broadcaster Nick Bollinger tells the story of beards and bombs, freaks and
firebrands, self-destruction and self-realisation, ...
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Author:
Nick Bollinger, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Auckland University Press, 2022
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (408.0 pages, 2.0894142E7 Bytes)
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Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781776710867
Language:
English
BRN:
435006
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