James M Carter

Rockin' in the Ivory Tower

Rock Music on Campus in the Sixties

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Produktbeschreibung

Historian James Carter takes a close look at how the rock music of the 1960s played an integral role in the lives of American college students. He traces connections between rock fandom and the civil rights protests, free speech activism, radical ideas, lifestyle transformations, and anti-war movements that revolutionized universities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781978829398
• ISBN-10: 1978829396
• Artikelnr.: 66155742

Autorenporträt

JAMES M. CARTER is an associate professor of history at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, where his specializations include U.S. foreign policy and the rise of the counterculture. His book Inventing Vietnam is an analysis of the failed nation-building effort undertaken by the United States in Vietnam and how that failure led to the war.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction 
1 Postwar America, the Revolution in Higher Education,
and Popular Music
2 "The Sound of the Sixties": Popular Music and 
College Campuses
3 "I Blundered My Way Through": The College Impresario,
Fall 1965-Fall 1967
4 "They're Rockin' in the Ivory Tower": Fall 1967-Fall 1968
5 The "Americanization of Rock": Spring 1969-Fall 1970
Conclusion
Appendix A: Bands/Artists at Drew University,
1967-1971
Appendix B: Bands/Artists at Stony Brook University,
1967-1971
Notes
Bibliography
Index