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Michael J. Kramer - The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture - 9780190610753 - V9780190610753
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The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture

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Description for The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture paperback. The Republic of Rock uncovers the lost story of rock music and citizenship in the sixties counterculture by tracing the way people in two key places-San Francisco and Vietnam-used rock to make sense of their lives and the world around them. Num Pages: 306 pages, 40 illus. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
In his 1967 megahit "San Francisco," Scott McKenzie sang of "people in motion" coming from all across the country to San Francisco, the white-hot center of rock music and anti-war protests. At the same time, another large group of young Americans was also in motion, less eagerly, heading for the jungles of Vietnam. Now, in The Republic of Rock, Michael Kramer draws on new archival sources and interviews to explore sixties music and politics through the lens of these two generation-changing places--San Francisco and Vietnam. From the Acid Tests of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters to hippie ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190610753
SKU
V9780190610753
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About Michael J. Kramer
Michael J. Kramer teaches History and American Studies at Northwestern University, and writes about arts and culture at www.culturerover.com.

Reviews for The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture
Throughout, Kramers book is a model of thorough research, with conclusions informed by an extensive body of archival sources and original interviews with musicians, as well as serious engagement with the major scholarship on rock and the counterculture.2 In short, The Republic of Rock is a groundbreaking study highly recommended to any reader interested in 1960s rock or the role ... Read more

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