Closing the circle : a cultural history of the rock revolution / Herbert I. London.

Author/creator London, Herbert I.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : Nelson-Hall, ©1984.
Descriptionvii, 199 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Prologue -- Under the rock -- The ancien regime -- The conformist years -- A typology of early rock revolutionists -- Accession: 1957-1963 -- Germinal: 1964 -- Fructidor: 1965-1972 -- Thermidor: 1973-1978 -- Restoration (?): 1979-present -- The future -- Conclusions.
Abstract This book explores rock as cultural revolution. It surmises that the developments in popular music during the 1950s and 1960s reflected and conveyed the ideas of the 'Second American Revolution' which includes unrepressed sensuality, a contempt for ordinary categories of rational thought and speech, a rejection of organized work, a support for the avant garde in art, a search for personal fulfilment divorced from conventions, and a fascination with areas of thought stigmatized by prevailing social sentiments, eg. pornography and drugs.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 84002016
ISBN0830410570 (alk. paper)

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML3534.L66 C5 1984 ✔ Available Place Hold