Nicholas Tochka, Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America.
Tochka informs the reader in a non-patronising nuanced way that America’s sense of values and truths are significantly influenced by purveyors of popular music (5). The prologue helps us to consider if there is a relationship between popular music, for example rock music, and acceptance of a partic...
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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European journal of American studies
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | Tochka informs the reader in a non-patronising nuanced way that America’s sense of values and truths are significantly influenced by purveyors of popular music (5). The prologue helps us to consider if there is a relationship between popular music, for example rock music, and acceptance of a particular political ideology. The book enables the thought process, can pop artists or rock bands, influence large swathes of society’s political identity in the long-term. Chapter one could easily be c... |
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