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Rocking in the free world : popular music and the politics of freedom in postwar America

Tochka, Nicholas, author

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\"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.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Rock music Political aspects United States History 20th century.
• ISBN: 9780197566510

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
ML3918.R63 T63 2023	1	BOOK	ARTS