Rock Music in American Culture: The Sounds of Revolution
Online, June 13, 2011 (Newswire.com)
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Rock Music in American Culture:
The Sounds of Revolution, 2d ed.
McFarland & Co., Inc. -- Publisher
Robert G. Pielke
Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-4865-4
charts, notes, bibliography, index
softcover (7 x 10) 2011
TABLE OF CONTENTS & Selected EXCERPTS
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About the book:
IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL - AND IT CHANGED THE WORLD
A Chronicle of America's Soundtrack
Sixty years ago, who would have thought that the President of the United States would enlist the aid of the flamboyant pop diva Lady Gaga to help end childhood bullying, that a long-haired hippie rock singer who once posed nude on an album cover would stop the questionable Viet Nam War, and that Rock and Roll would help bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union. One person would have - Robert G Pielke, who argues convincingly in his new book that America is in the midst of a cultural revolution - and rock music is its source and substance.
In the years following World War II, something vital and original was born in the restive caldron of American culture. At that moment the voice of this vital and original something came fully into its own. It was insistent, loud and bawdy, and it finally had a name. It was Rock and Roll.
Rock and Roll was about to challenge society's values about race, sex, love, work, patriotism, fashion, commercials and religion that lay at the core of our conservative cultural vision of America. Rock music strongly exemplifies a contrary set of values and issues its own clarion call for freedom and individuality. That challenge is now well underway.
Rock and Roll is attitude. It's the echo of the masses crying out for peace, justice, ecology, freedom and love. It is the soundtrack of the last half century.
From its roots in the black and white "under classes" through its clash with the broader culture to its multifaceted incarnation today, rock and roll has fostered and reflected a genuine cultural revolution which has gone on to influence the world. This critical text investigates rock music from a philosophical perspective, an approach rarely seen in the literature. Topics covered include a definition of rock music and a suggested typology; an examination of rock on radio and in television and film; and a depiction of what is to come. Of particular interest is how rock's shifting mores have mirrored the complex changes experienced by American society as it has undergone almost continuous turbulence.
About the Author:
Robert G. Pielke is a retired professor of philosophy and the author of numerous scholarly articles. He lives in Claremont, California.
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