Permanent Holdout - Jackson Browne, His Music, His America

Known for albums like Late for the Sky, The Pretender, and Running on Empty, Jackson Browne was a master of capturing the counterculture ethos of the 1960s. This book dives deeply into his music, long career, and activism-including environmentalism-within the context of American life, revealing a figure still fueled by ideals of equality and love.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Introduction: What Jackson Browne's Holding Out For
Chapter 1: "The Barricades of Heaven"
Chapter 2: "Where Do You Have Left But To Go In?"
Chapter 3: Late for the Sky
Chapter 4: The Deluge
Chapter 5: Trouble in the 1980s
Chapter 6: All In on the Political
Chapter 7: Turmoil, Then Renaissance
Chapter 8: Millennial Highs, Millennial Lows
Chapter 9: Shoulder to the Wheel, Heart in the Deal
About the Author
Bibliography

About the author

Cornel Bonca is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at California State University, Fullerton, where he teaches courses in American literature, critical theory, and rock 'n' roll history. His essays, reviews, and fiction have appeared in two dozen publications, among them Salon, The New York Observer, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jacaranda, and Modern Language Studies, where he's written on the beat poets, Bruce Springsteen, The National, The Airborne Toxic Event, David Foster Wallace, Philip Roth, and Don DeLillo. His last book was Paul Simon: An American Tune. He lives in Altadena, CA with his wife and daughter.

Product details

• Authors: Cornel Bonca
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.04.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781538172872
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7287-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Rock and Roll, Rock, Rock & Pop music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, Biography: arts & entertainment, Biography: arts and entertainment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice