Rocking in the Free World

Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

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?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-08-31
Mått:236 x 165 x 24 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197566510
Utmärkelser:Certificate of Merit, Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical Music

Utforska kategorier

Musikböcker inom Kultur
Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

Rocking in the Free World invites the reader to re-assess the mythical stories we tell about rock 'n' roll, freedom, and rebellion-and to see more accurately rock's artistic, social, and political impacts. Warmly recommended.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface and AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Popular Music as Political Theory 1 How Rock 'n' Roll Invented the Teenager2 How Americans Rocked Cairo (and London, and Moscow, and Tehran, and ...)3 How Trash Became Art4 How the Rock Counterculture Dug Deeper 5 How Songwriters Revealed Our Inner Truth6 How Rock Got Real Again7 How We Taught the World to SingEpilogue: Rocking in the Free WorldReferencesIndex