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Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America
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Music Instruction: GeneralPop/RockMusic Reference
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ISBN10: 0197566510
ISBN13: 9780197566510
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 23 2023
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780197566510
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 23 2023
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
Progressive and libertarian, anti-Communist and revolutionary, Democratic and Republican, quintessentially American but simultaneously universal. By the late 1980s, rock music had acquired a dizzying array of political labels. These claims about its political significance shared one common thread: that the music could set you free. 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?
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