| Description |
1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Contents |
Prologue. Popular Music as Political Theory -- How Rock 'n' Roll Invented the Teenager -- How Americans Rocked Cairo (and London, and Moscow, and Tehran, and...) -- How Trash Became Art -- How the Rock Counterculture Dug Deeper -- How Songwriters Revealed Our Inner Truth -- How Rock Got Real Again -- How We Taught the World to Sing -- Epilogue. Rocking in the Free World |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Rock music -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Rock music -- Political aspects
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197566527 |
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0197566529 |
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