Monterey Pop and the Hippy Idyll: Rock Film and the Construction of a Rebel Imagery.

Abstract

In this work we will deal with the analysis of D.A. Pennebaker’s documentary Monterey Pop, understood as an internal representation of dominant eidos in the early hippy movement. From the flower power point of view, Pennebaker leaves a testimony of the moment when rock music stops being a mere cultural projection of a certain way of being young in Mass Society, to become, through its hippy rewriting, a starting point for the construction of a youthful and rebellious identity, which turned rock music into the main cultural tool of the anti-establishment movement in the mid 70’s.