Ashbury St.

« Ashbury St. », c’est d’abord une rue de San Francisco qui a vu naître le mouvement hippie des années 60 ; c’est donc un symbole. Le symbole de toute une époque. En prenant pour titre cette rue-là je plonge dedans.

Ashbury St. is first a street in San Francisco that witnessed the birth of the hippie movement in the 1960s: it is thus a symbol. The symbol of an entire era. By taking this street as my title I plunge inside it. The street where Janis Joplin dragged her boots with the Capricorn Girls and where the Grateful Dead gave their first concerts. A whole crowd of rock icons have passed through here.

More committed and more polished, Ashbury St. requires from its interpreters another maturity, more militant, more elegant, more profound. I shall seek to flush out the paradox: Flower Power faced with the Vietnam War, the cool attitude, the violent deaths, the young men sacrificed for a nation.

Source : Brumachon-Lamarche

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