Rocking in the Free World
Read by
Derek Dysart
Release:
08/22/2023
Release:
08/22/2023
Release:
08/22/2023
Runtime:
9h 36m
Runtime:
9h 36m
Runtime:
9h 36m
Unabridged
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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?
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?
Release:
2023-08-22
2023-08-22
2023-08-22
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
9h 36m
9h 36m
9h 36m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9798350873801
9798212938877
9798212938884
Publisher:
Tantor
Tantor
Tantor
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