Carter, James M. (1968-) [Συγγραφέας]. Rockin' in the ivory tower : rock music on campus in the sixties

  1. Work (Individual)
  2. 13. Ιστορία της Αμερικανικής Rock μουσικής
  3. Πληροφοριακές πηγές ψηφιακής βιβλιοθήκης
  4. 2023
  5. Αγγλικά
  6. Carter, James M. (1968-)
  9. Ροκ μουσική

    • In Campus Rock, historian James M. Carter tells the story of the emergence of rock music culture in the U.S. during the late 1960s. The story places the college campus at the center of an emerging rock music circuit. As private clubs and other hosting venues did not exist and only slowly emerged, the performance of rock music thrived on campuses, where there already existed a built-in audience, a tradition of music performance, and a student body enjoying remarkable autonomy (and a budget) in planning activities. Of course, this did not occur in a vacuum, but was a key component of an array of related movements and phenomena that we have come to think of as "the sixties," including civil rights/free speech/anti-war movements, the counterculture, and the growth and spread of the underground press. Not simply coincidentally, rock music culture emerged simultaneous with, and as a part of, the counterculture. Campus Rock highlights how these multiple cultural, political, and social phenomena, often treated separately, were actually bound together and evolved in relation to each other in important ways.

      ⟶ Worldcat

    • Histories of American rock music and the 1960s counterculture typically focus on the same few places: Woodstock, Monterey, Altamont. Yet there was also a very active college circuit that brought edgy acts like the Jefferson Airplane and the Velvet Underground to different metropolitan regions and smaller towns all over the country. These campus concerts were often programmed, promoted, and reviewed by students themselves, and their diverse tastes challenged narrow definitions of rock music.  

      Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower takes a close look at two smaller universities, Drew in New Jersey and Stony Brook on Long Island, to see how the culture of rock music played an integral role in student life in the late 1960s. Analyzing campus archives and college newspapers, historian James Carter traces connections between rock fandom and the civil rights protests, free speech activism, radical ideas, lifestyle transformations, and anti-war movements that revolutionized universities in the 1960s. Furthermore, he finds that these progressive students refused to segregate genres like folk, R&B, hard rock, and pop. Rockin’ in the Ivory Tower gives readers a front-row seat to a dynamic time for the music industry, countercultural politics, and youth culture.

      ⟶ Rutgers university press