The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (520 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190610751 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 306 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kramer's book provides an informed and informative retrospective on a decade when sonic expectations for humanity soared, only to be brought back to earth by other musical depictions of ghetto lives, police harassment, mindless capitalism, drug abuse, and military madness." --B. His book shows just how inseparable economic, political, and metaphysical ideas grew during the 1960s. Lair, author of Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War. His chapter on the embrace of rock and soul music by the U.S. Lee Cooper, Rock Music Studies"Kramer probes deeply into the countercultural archives of art posters, underground newspapers, music, press releases, and interviews to e
Michael J. Kramer teaches History and American Studies at Northwestern University, and writes about arts and culture at culturerover.
From the Acid Tests of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters to hippie disc jockeys on strike, the military's use of rock music to "boost morale" in Vietnam, and the forgotten tale of a South Vietnamese rock band, The Republic of Rock shows how the musical connections between the City of the Summer of Love and war-torn Southeast Asia were crucial to the making of the sixties counterculture. The book also illustrates how and why the legacy of rock music in the sixties continues to matter to the meaning of citizenship in a global society today. Going beyond clichéd narratives about sixties music, Kram