Rocking in the Free World
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-756651-0 (ISBN)
Rocking in the Free World explains how Americans came to believe they had learned the truth about rock 'n' roll, a truth shaped by the Cold War anxieties of the Fifties, the countercultural revolutions (and counter-revolutions) of the Sixties and Seventies, and the end-of-history triumphalism of the Eighties. How did rock 'n' roll become enmeshed with so many different competing ideas about freedom? And what does that story reveal about the promise-and the limits-of rock music as a political force in postwar America?
Nicholas Tochka writes about the politics of postwar music-making in Eastern Europe and the Americas. In 2016, Oxford University Press published his first book, Audible States: Socialist Politics and Popular Music in Socialist Albania. He is currently completing one project on citizenship in postsocialist Europe, and another about the invention of the Sixties in the United States. He works at the Conservatorium of Music, the University of Melbourne in Australia, and plays both bass and guitar.
Preface and Acknowledgments
Prologue: Popular Music as Political Theory
1 How Rock 'n' Roll Invented the Teenager
2 How Americans Rocked Cairo (and London, and Moscow, and Tehran, and ...)
3 How Trash Became Art
4 How the Rock Counterculture Dug Deeper
5 How Songwriters Revealed Our Inner Truth
6 How Rock Got Real Again
7 How We Taught the World to Sing
Epilogue: Rocking in the Free World
References
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.06.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 9 B&W |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 236 x 165 mm |
Gewicht | 490 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-756651-0 / 0197566510 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-756651-0 / 9780197566510 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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