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Rock music, authority and western culture, 1964-1980

Title: Rock music, authority and western culture, 1964-1980 / James A. Cosby.
Author: Cosby, James A.
Publication: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2024]

Details

Description

viii, 288 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

The history of rock and roll music can be seen in a long arc of Western civilization's struggle for both greater individual expression and societal stability. In the 1960s, the West's relationship with authority ruptured, in part due to the rock revolution. Though the effects are still with us today, the lessons and implications of this era have yet to be fully grasped. This book tells the story of the key artists, music, and events of the classic rock era-defined here as 1964 to 1980-through a virtual psychoanalysis of the West. Over these years, important truths unfold in the stories of British Invaders, hippies, proto-punks, and more, as well as topics to include drugs, primal scream therapy, the occult, spirituality, and disco and its detractors, to name just a few. With a narrative that is equal parts entertaining, scholarly, and even spiritual, readers will gain a greater appreciation for rock music, better understand the confusing world we live in today, and see how greater individuality and social stability may be better reconciled moving forward--

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Part One. A New Day Dawning, 1950s-1967. A New Rebel Yell: The First Half of the Twentieth Century ; Cultural Checkpoints: The United States and the United Kingdom Enter the '60s ; Meet the Beatles and the Stones, 1959-1965 ; Cultural Checkpoints: The United States, ca. 1965 ; The Freaks of Haight-Ashbury, 1965-1966 ; The Haight's House Band, Acid Rock, and the Hippies, 1965-1967 ; Warhol's House Band, 1962-1967 ; The Hippie/Freak Lifestyle, ca. 1966 ; Modern Mythic Heroes and the Summer of Love, 1966-1967 ; Cultural Checkpoints : Vietnam, Political Divisions, and Race, Late 1966-1967 -- Part Two. Upheaval, 1966-1984. Integration, the Elvis Factor, the New Blues, and Tutwiler, 1954-Present ; James Brown and Soul Brothers and Sisters, 1954-1960s ; Cultural Checkpoints : War, Assassinations, and Chaos, ca. 1968 ; The Beatles Come Full Circle, 1968-1970 ; "Do What Thou Wilt" (or Partying with the Stones!), 1968-Early '70s ; Transitions and Strange Days, End of the '60s ; A Generation Gap, Late '60s-Early '70s ; Cultural Checkpoints: Protests, Imagining a Different World, and a Left- Right Divide Solidifies, Mid-'69-Early '70s ; Prog and Full Arenas (Also, Jesus Freaks), Early '70s ; A Very Special '70s Cultural Checkpoint : The Sitcom ; Rock Gods, a Possible Alternate Route to Heaven, and Egos, 1969-1979 ; The Big Power Pop Stars, 1972-1977 ; Rockers, Dancers, and Disco and Disco's Demolition, 1970s-1980.

ISBN

9781476693699
1476693692
9781476651354 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023058786

OCLC

YBP 2023058786

Author

Cosby, James A., author.

Title

Rock music, authority and western culture, 1964-1980 / James A. Cosby.

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2024]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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