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Rock and Roll, Social Protest, and Authenticity: Historical, Philosophical, and Cultural Explorations

Rock and Roll, Social Protest, and Authenticity: Historical, Philosophical, and Cultural Explorations

Torell, Kurt

Paperback

Series: For the Record: Lexington Studies in Rock and Popular Music

General MusicPop/RockMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1793655650
ISBN13: 9781793655653
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Aug 22 2023
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book explores the relationships between rock and roll, social protest, and authenticity to consider how rock and roll could function as social protest music. The author begins by discussing the nature and origins of rock and roll and the nature of social protest and social protest music within the wider context of the evolution of the commercial music industry and the social and technological infrastructure developed for the mass dissemination of popular music. This discussion is followed by an examination of the causes of the public disapproval originally expressed toward rock and roll, and how they illuminate its social protest and subversive quality. By further investigating the nature of authenticity and its relationship to social protest and to commercialization, the author considers how social protest and commercialization are antithetical. This conclusion, if correct, has broad implications for human culture in advanced industrial society.

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