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The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949-68. Ed. by HANNAH SCHISSLER. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2001. 498 pp. 15.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-691-05820-2 (pbk).
A review of the first production of Peter Handke's Publikumsbeschimpfung in 1966 noted that the author sported a hair-do like the Beatles. Handke himself, in his instructions to performers, encouraged them to study Gary Cooper, the Rolling Stones, church liturgy, and football chants. The cultural provocations of the 1960s were no longer played out solely in aesthetic terms, but drew on and reworked a wide range of practices in their attempt to find responses appropriate to the present. For the cultural historian, the task of reconstructing the context with which texts interacted is a daunting one, since the mass of relevant information is potentially endless as soon as one...
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