If one theme or question emerges from the essays in this issue, it is about the status of popular culture as a field for the creation, elaboration, and consumption of the 1960s cultural revolution. Cultural production was a key site of activism in the 1960s, to be sure, but even in the (nominally more passive) realm of consumption, the cultural was imbued with potentially emancipatory content. As we know from Cultural and Media Studies, consumer choices in fashion, music, film, and so on are far from unpolitical. Yet the question remains of the extent to which the creation and consumption of popular culture could ultimately function as a form of political resistance. Each of the essays in this issue, in their own way, comes to grips with this conundrum.