Rock & Roll in Kennedy''s America - A Cultural History of the Early 1960s

"The author tells an unconventional history of rock & roll in the early 1960s-one that argues that Buddy Holly's death in 1959 was not "the day the music died," that teenagers of the early 1960s were not as rebellious as we'd like to believe, and that the consensus politics and Cold War culture of this era were much broader based than we usually assume"--

About the author

Richard Aquila (Buffalo, NY) is professor emeritus of history and American Studies at Penn State University and the former host of NPR's Rock & Roll America. He is the author of The Sagebrush Trail: Western Movies and Twentieth-Century America and Let's Rock! How 1950s America Created Elvis and the Rock & Roll Craze.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Aquila, Aquila Richard
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781421444987
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4498-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Music; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Music, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Popular Music