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Rock me on the water : 1974 : the year Los Angeles transformed movies, music, television, and politics / Ronald Brownstein.
Van Pelt Library F869.L857 B77 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brownstein, Ronald, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--20th century.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Biography.
- Nineteen seventy-four, A.D.
- Nineteen seventies.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Politics and culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Politics and culture.
- Social change--United States--History--20th century.
- Social change.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- United States--Politics and government--1969-1974.
- Politics and government.
- Manners and customs.
- Social conditions.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Genre:
- History.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 439 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- 1974 : the year Los Angeles transformed movies, music, television, and politics
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : HarperCollins, [2021]
- Summary:
- Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.
- Los Angeles in 1974 exerted more influence over popular culture than any other city in America. Working in film, recording, and television studios, a cluster of transformative talents produced an explosion in popular culture which reflected the demographic, social, and cultural realities of a changing America. Popular culture was ahead of politics in predicting what America would become. Brownstein traces the confluence of movies, music, television, and politics in Los Angeles month by month through that transformative, magical year. Today, we are again witnessing a generational cultural divide, and Brownstein shows how the voices resistant to change may win the political battle for a time, but they cannot hold back the future.-- adapted from jacket
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. January Hollywood's Fall and Rise
- 2. February The Republic of Rock and Roll
- 3. March The Greatest Night in Television History
- 4. April Already Gone
- 5. May The Ballad of Tom and Jane
- 6. June From Chinatown to Jerry Brown
- 7. July Hollywood's Generational Tipping Point
- 8. August The Icarus of Los Angeles
- 9. September Three Roads to Revolution
- 10. October The (White) Boys' Club
- 11. November Breakthrough
- 12. December Transitions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-428) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780062899217
- 006289921X
- OCLC:
- 1153060118
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