Music, Rebellion, Repression

Folksingers and The FBI: Leonard uses music, video selections, news clippings, and records from extensive Freedom of Information Act filings showing the depth to which the FBI was out to stop the folk music explosion. In Explosion of Deferred Dreams, Callahan shows how the intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco, briefly, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge.

The Explosion of Deferred Dreams

Callahan’s meticulous, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant subcultural uprisings with which it is associated.