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Countercultures and popular music / edited by Sheila Whiteley [and] Jedediah Sklower.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ashgate popular and folk music series.
- Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Social aspects.
- Popular music.
- Counterculture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Counterculture' emerged as a term in the late 1960's and has been re-deployed in more recent decades in relation to other forms of cultural and socio-political phenomena. This volume provides an essential new academic scrutiny of the concept of 'counterculture' and a critical examination of the period and its heritage.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; General Editors' Preface; Notes on Contributors; Preface: Dissent within Dissent; Introduction; Countercultures and Popular Music; Reappraising 'Counterculture'; Part I Theorising Countercultures; 1 Break on Through: The Counterculture and the Climax of American Modernism; 2 The Banality of Degradation: Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground and the Trash Aesthetic; 3 Were British Subcultures the Beginning of Multitude?; Part II Utopias, Dystopias and the Apocalyptic
- 4 The Rock Counterculture from Modernist Utopianism to the Development of an Alternative Music Scene 5 'Helter Skelter' and Sixties Revisionism; 6 Apocalyptic Music: Reflections on Countercultural Christian Influence; 7 Nobody's Army: Contradictory Cultural Rhetoric in Woodstock and Gimme Shelter; Part III Sonic Anarchy and Freaks; 8 The Long Freak Out: Unfinished Music and Countercultural Madness in Avant-Garde Rock of the 1960's and 1970's; 9 The Grateful Dead and Friedrich Nietzsche: Transformation in Music and Consciousness; 10 Scream from the Heart: Yoko Ono's Rock and Roll Revolution
- 11 From Countercultures to Suburban Cultures: Frank Zappa after 1968 Part IV Countercultural Scenes - Music and Place; 12 Countercultural Space Does Not Persist: Christiania and the Role of Music; 13 A Border-Crossing Soundscape of Pop: The Auditory Traces of Subcultural Practices in 1960's Berlin; 14 Music and Countercultures in Italy: The Neapolitan Scene; Bibliography; Discography; Filmography; Index
- Notes:
- "An Ashgate book"--cover.
- "First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-57447-0
- 1-317-15891-1
- 1-4724-2107-8
- 9781315574479
- OCLC:
- 878524436
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