| 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. |
| Abstract |
"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?"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023004634 |
| ISBN | 9780197566510 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
